how to lower your impedence load

[saltyreefguy 10+ year member]

yes, thanks...

****, almost got shot.....

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

i went to the cardomain sub wiring calculator, and it was 4 svc 2 ohm subs in series to achieve .05, so that was part of what i was looking for?

but i thought you said it was ' a useless question ', is it?

Thats the same thing as 2 DVC 2 ohm subs. And like I said earlier. It's .5 not .05 10 time's the difference

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

add resistors in parallel

 

[trow100 10+ year member]

people run their setups like this to get more power of of their amps. if an amp is stable at 1 ohm but able to go down to .5 it will produce more power. Many amps like the Kicker kx2500, and Incriminator 20.1 are run to produce more then the rated power.

Like stated you would have to have 2 DVC 2ohm subwoffers to get a final load of .5, there are also many other ways but this is just one example.

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

Dude, .5 is not .05

.5 = 1/2 of an ohm.

.05 = 1/20th of an ohm.

 

[saltyreefguy 10+ year member]

question the calculator on the12volt forum, if you input 2 subs 2dvc 2ohms = output 4 ohm or 8ohms.? but you got .5ohm? i'm asking so i can learn? or is their calculator incorrect?

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

add resistors in parallel

Hope you are joking, because that won't work.

 

[jcbabb 10+ year member]

The impedance of a circuit is affected by how each of the loads are wired. Think of impedance like resistance to the flow of current. Picture a single resistor placed between an amps + and - terminals. All of the current must flow through that resistor. Now say you add another resistor, if you wire the loads(the resistors) in parallel, you provide two separate paths for the current to go. Assuming both resistors have the same impedance, you have now cut the total resistance in half, because the current has two paths instead of one, making it easier to flow through. But, say you wired them in series, now the current must go through BOTH resistors, making it TWICE as hard to flow. Does that make sense?

When wiring resistors with identical resistances, wiring them in parallel cuts the resistance in half, but wiring in series doubles the total resistance. Now think of the speakers as resistors whos resistance is called impedance. A DVC speaker is simply 2 separate resistors(not really, but it helps to picture it that way to simplify the calculation of your impedance). This is a really dumbed down explanation, but I think it helps to grasp the concept.

 

[saltyreefguy 10+ year member]

sorry to say, but don't know why i said series, it was meant for parallel wiring only. i had the calculator wiring for series instead of para. guess it started a confusion...

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

Hope you are joking, because that won't work.

that was a joke