I tricked my amp

[91Sunbird 10+ year member]

I tricked my amplifier! It is a Sherwood 240 total power amp, its pushing two rockford 12s. I twisted each of the subs wires together, and stuck them in the same spot. My amp thinks its only pushing one sub, but its sending 240 watts to each speaker. I hooked up a Kenwood 400 to my subs and my Sherwood was still alot louder. So I hooked it back up. Is running two subs in the same channel gonna hurt anything? Is it really neccesary to buy high watt amps when u can cheat? Let me know!

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[more_spl 10+ year member]

how do you know you tricked it? maybe it tricked YOU //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

are you the amp's brain? no. you can't tell what it's thinking.

i bet it's still seeing a lower Ohm load, cuz if this "cheat" or "hack" (hehe lol) really worked, im sure people would always use it

 

[Heresy 10+ year member]

Sounds like you just wired in parallel...

 

[abercrombie2582 10+ year member]

tricked? hahahahah lmao!!!!!

 

[91Sunbird 10+ year member]

Originally posted by Heresy Sounds like you just wired in parallel...

Ok, is it bad to do this? Are they really getting 240 watts a piece? Sorry I am just learning about this stuff.

 

[Heresy 10+ year member]

It all depends on how much the amp can handle and how exactly you wired everything together. You could be dropping the ohm load in dangerous territory that could potentially start a fire. Basically, if I understand what you are describing, you are wiring the two subs in parallel. There are many other factors that have to be considers like if the subs are SVC or DVC and if you are you are getting 240W by bridging the amp.

I am too tired to go indepth on this so you do the homework yourself. This site will answer all your needs and more. It is truly the best I have found.

http://www.eatel.net/~amptech/elecdisc/caraudio.htm

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by 91Sunbird  

 

Ok, is it bad to do this? Are they really getting 240 watts a piece? Sorry I am just learning about this stuff.

1. Depends on the amp

2. If your amp is rally putting out 240w x 1. Each sub will only get 120w.

No problem man. That's what we are all here for. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[XtremeBass 10+ year member]

Yeah there is no way you can make an amp go from 240x1 to 240x2. And if there was I wouldve been using it long ago //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif . Yeah but anyway I hope you didnt hurt ur amp doing that.

 

[jaygeorge1979 10+ year member]

yeah right tricked the amp..........lol that is funny. nope what u did is just split the sound all u are getting is 120 a speaker and i agree the ohms are getting pretty unstable unless u have checked them out.....maybe the kenwood will keep ur car form flaming lol

 

[Harman Kardon!! 10+ year member]

Depends on how you hooked the wires togeather.. if your amp isnt 2 ohm stable mono it will burn it up.. if it says 2ohm stereo it wont work your min Ohm is 4 if it says stereo.. Did you just pu post. to post and neg to neg to the amp or did you do a series or parrell.. wireing?

 

[ted_the_mexican 10+ year member]

wow harm

soudns like a lot of tech questions for a guy who probably doesnt know what parallel or series means in the first place and doesnt even know why he wired his amp the way he did.... but non the less some good points...

so sunbird i would check out the vast amount of info on this great site about the diff b/w series and parallel, reference your amps specs and then figure out best (and safest) way to wire your system...