how to wire LOTS of subs????????/

[rickymac21 10+ year member]

yea im just tryin to see if anyone can explain to me how i would go about wiring high amounts of subs together... im eventually gonna do another build and im leaning towards a ground pounding monster so i was either gonna do 16 or 24 12's.... probably hifonics hfi series. nothing special... anyways... how would i wire these together if i have 2 mono amps... probably hifonics or autotek's... what im leaning for anyways....

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[ThatChevyGuy 5,000+ posts]

nothing changes in how you wire them vs wiring one or two subs.

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

Depends on the load you need.

 

[rickymac21 10+ year member]

Depends on the load you need.

lowest the amp will take on daily music. so probably just a 1 ohm load is fine...

 

[Bender. 10+ year member]

yea im just tryin to see if anyone can explain to me how i would go about wiring high amounts of subs together... im eventually gonna do another build and im leaning towards a ground pounding monster so i was either gonna do 16 or 24 12's.... probably hifonics hfi series. nothing special... anyways... how would i wire these together if i have 2 mono amps... probably hifonics or autotek's... what im leaning for anyways....

if you have to ask you are no where near ready

 

[shizzzon 10+ year member]

cant tell ya hwo to wire it up without knowing what amps u are using and what subs and coil config u are using.

 

[cx-7heaven 10+ year member]

I like to keep them in groups, so if you have 16 subs, create 4 groups of 4 each. If each sub is a d1 for example, then I go series on each sub(2ohm per sub), then I wire a pair together in parallel(1ohm per pair)wire each pair together parallel(1/2ohm per 4 sub group). Now wire 2 groups together in series.. 1 ohm per 8 sub group tadaaaa!

Edit: bender may be right that you are not ready, but the way I see it, if you dont actually do it, you will never learn anything. Worst that can happen is you blow some stuff up , and waste a lot of money

 

[rickymac21 10+ year member]

if you have to ask you are no where near ready

yea i knew somone would say this.. haha... well man think what you want but i can do it... I have had over 10 different installs... 3 of which were all in the mid and upper 40's on music... not useing more than 4000 wrms.. all the boxes were built and designed by me... im not an idiot with this shit, but i will admit i havent ever been good with wiring more than 4 subs together... I never looked into the ohm laws and what not.

 

[cx-7heaven 10+ year member]

yea i knew somone would say this.. haha... well man think what you want but i can do it... I have had over 10 different installs... 3 of which were all in the mid and upper 40's on music... not useing more than 4000 wrms.. all the boxes were built and designed by me... im not an idiot with this shit, but i will admit i havent ever been good with wiring more than 4 subs together... I never looked into the ohm laws and what not.

Thats great that you feel you are ready, but you need to know about ohms and impedance before doing something like this, it's really not that hard. a d1 sub can make 2 or 1/2 ohm. 2 d1 subs can make 1/4, 1, or 4 ohms, and so on.

 

[rickymac21 10+ year member]

Thats great that you feel you are ready, but you need to know about ohms and impedance before doing something like this, it's really not that hard. a d1 sub can make 2 or 1/2 ohm. 2 d1 subs can make 1/4, 1, or 4 ohms, and so on.

i know this.. haha.. come on now... any one can wire 1-4 subs together easily... you can google that and find an answer..... but not that many people have done a set up with 16-24 subs they gotta wire together.... now. if they are d4 coils. how would i go about this?

 

[cx-7heaven 10+ year member]

i know this.. haha.. come on now... any one can wire 1-4 subs together easily... you can google that and find an answer..... but not that many people have done a set up with 16-24 subs they gotta wire together.... now. if they are d4 coils. how would i go about this?

I just showed you how to wire 8 subs to achieve a total 1 ohm load, that is good for most modern subamps. If they are d4( like the 8 8's in my sig) you just do the math. In my case, I went series on each sub(8 ohm per sub), then wired 4 subs in parallel for a total of 2 ohms per 4 sub group, wired the 2 groups together in parallel to achieve 1 ohm total load. I can easily wire the 2 4 sub groups in series to achieve a total 4 ohm load, which is what it will need to be when my PPI comes back from repair.

Edit: Basically if you set up each group correctly you will only have 1 pos and 1 neg coming from each group, and you just wire that together to get whatever final load you need

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

yea i knew somone would say this.. haha... well man think what you want but i can do it... I have had over 10 different installs... 3 of which were all in the mid and upper 40's on music... not useing more than 4000 wrms.. all the boxes were built and designed by me... im not an idiot with this shit, but i will admit i havent ever been good with wiring more than 4 subs together... I never looked into the ohm laws and what not.

took the words right out of my mouth. honestly mid to upper 140 on music with a max of 4k watts? i've seen guys on 1.5k hit mid 140s on a daily setup.

 

[rickymac21 10+ year member]

took the words right out of my mouth. honestly mid to upper 140 on music with a max of 4k watts? i've seen guys on 1.5k hit mid 140s on a daily setup.

alright ***... you can see all those guys you like so much to brag about them do that, but apparently you cant since you werent included in that statement of yours to embarass me.. nice try though. shit on somone elses thread.

 

[shizzzon 10+ year member]

snoopdan broke a 150 plain michael jackson on 1400w...

4,000w is a lot of power for just the mid 140s

 

[Anton Miller 10+ year member]

yea i hit 145.0 with 1800 wrms (on music)..... and one 12"......

you might wanna rethink your strategy. if your not loud enough with what you have and if you should be louder, you need to ask for help, dont just think you need more power or more subs....

but i like to use the rockford website to figure out things like this (they have awesome stuff), but do what that one guy said and do them in groups of 4 or so and then you should be able to get it quite easily.