How should I wire my doors

[JoshGuy 10+ year member]

I'm getting the CTX65 ID's (Amazon.com: Ctx65cs - Image Dynamics 6.5" Component Speaker System: Electronics) but im not sure if I should get the 2 ohm or the 4 ohm ones because I have no experience wiring doors. I have an RF2002 for my doors which runs 50rms x 2 at 4 ohms. How should it be bought so i can wire in the tweets and mids to this amp? OR should one set be wired to the deck and another through the amp etc..

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[goingdef 10+ year member]

get the 2ohm set to get the most out of your amp as for wiring it one channel/wire will go into each x-over and then the tweeter and mid wire off that splitting the freq between the two.

 

[JoshGuy 10+ year member]

get the 2ohm set to get the most out of your amp as for wiring it one channel/wire will go into each x-over and then the tweeter and mid wire off that splitting the freq between the two.

so i should run my tweets on one channel and my mids on the other right?

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

Each amp channel wires to the crossover inputs and the crossover has outputs for tweeter and mid. Pretty simple.

 

[JoshGuy 10+ year member]

Each amp channel wires to the crossover inputs and the crossover has outputs for tweeter and mid. Pretty simple.

Okay I got that but is there any way i can wire my doors in parallel so I could get 2 ohms on each channel?

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

Only if you have 2 sets per door. Or get a 2 ohm version if there is one.

 

[JoshGuy 10+ year member]

Only if you have 2 sets per door. Or get a 2 ohm version if there is one.

Yeah they make a 2 ohm version and ill only have a set of components per door so how would i be able to wire 4 sets 2 ohm components to 2 ohm per channel

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

wait how many doors are we talking here?

 

[JoshGuy 10+ year member]

wait how many doors are we talking here?

Just 4 doors so 4 tweets and 4 mids

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

Just 4 doors so 4 tweets and 4 mids

OH that makes more sense I run a 2ch amp but I only run front comps, you may want to think about getting a 4ch amp instead or you will lose fade control also you would want the 4ohm speakers to obtain the 2ohm load per ch if you still want to go that route simply run the speakers as normal the only difference will be two sets of wires going into each ch instead of one set.

 

[JoshGuy 10+ year member]

OH that makes more sense I run a 2ch amp but I only run front comps, you may want to think about getting a 4ch amp instead or you will lose fade control also you would want the 4ohm speakers to obtain the 2ohm load per ch if you still want to go that route simply run the speakers as normal the only difference will be two sets of wires going into each ch instead of one set.

that wouldnt yield 8 ohms per channel? And on more thing would the component as a whole be rated at 4 ohms or 2 ohms per mid and then 2 ohms per tweeter?

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

Yeah they make a 2 ohm version and ill only have a set of components per door so how would i be able to wire 4 sets 2 ohm components to 2 ohm per channel

You can't. If you're running 2 sets per channel they should be 4 ohms each. Two 4 ohm sets in parallel will be 2 ohms.

 

[JoshGuy 10+ year member]

You can't. If you're running 2 sets per channel they should be 4 ohms each. Two 4 ohm sets in parallel will be 2 ohms.

So I should get the 4 ohm version and wire them in parallel to get a 2 ohm outcome per channel. But how would that work with the crossovers?

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

Each mid/tweet set has a crossover. You wire the amp channel to 2 crossovers and each crossover to its speakers.