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<blockquote data-quote="the_noob" data-source="post: 920923" data-attributes="member: 560074">Well, this one&#039;s kind of long-winded, so I&#039;ll just get started. I was browsing around the internet a bit the other day and stumbled upon this website<a href="http://www.diymobileaudio.com" target="_blank">http://www.diymobileaudio.com</a>I&#039;m sure many of you have heard of it before. Anyway, in the Articles section, there is an article about 8 ohm drivers.<a href="http://www.diymobileaudio.com" target="_blank">http://www.diymobileaudio.com</a>/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33This is what I am trying to understand. So, for instance, lets use the ID Chameleons, because they are the only drivers I can think of right now that come in 4 ohm and 2 ohm. In short, here is basically what the article says:So, if I were to get the 2 ohm version and send it 150 watts @ 2 ohm, I would get the same results as if I got the 4 ohm version and sent it 75 watts @ 4 ohm??? FYI, the rms rating on the 2 ohm version is 150 watts, while the rms on the 4 ohm version is only 75 watts, so that kind of caught my eye.This also brought up some other questions. If it works like this for midbass drivers, then I would have to assume that it works the same way for subs. So are dual 4 ohm subs more efficient than dual 2 ohms subs? Say I ordered two dual 2 ohm subs. I can wire them to either 2 ohms or 8 ohms, right? So if I wired them to 8 ohms rather than 2 ohms, would it mean that output would be the same, yet my amp would run cooler?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the_noob, post: 920923, member: 560074"] Well, this one's kind of long-winded, so I'll just get started. I was browsing around the internet a bit the other day and stumbled upon this website [URL="http://www.diymobileaudio.com"]http://www.diymobileaudio.com[/URL] I'm sure many of you have heard of it before. Anyway, in the Articles section, there is an article about 8 ohm drivers. [URL="http://www.diymobileaudio.com"]http://www.diymobileaudio.com[/URL]/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33 This is what I am trying to understand. So, for instance, lets use the ID Chameleons, because they are the only drivers I can think of right now that come in 4 ohm [I]and[/I] 2 ohm. In short, here is basically what the article says: So, if I were to get the 2 ohm version and send it 150 watts @ 2 ohm, I would get the same results as if I got the 4 ohm version and sent it 75 watts @ 4 ohm??? FYI, the rms rating on the 2 ohm version is 150 watts, while the rms on the 4 ohm version is only 75 watts, so that kind of caught my eye. This also brought up some other questions. If it works like this for midbass drivers, then I would have to assume that it works the same way for subs. So are dual 4 ohm subs more efficient than dual 2 ohms subs? Say I ordered two dual 2 ohm subs. I can wire them to either 2 ohms or 8 ohms, right? So if I wired them to 8 ohms rather than 2 ohms, would it mean that output would be the same, yet my amp would run cooler? [/QUOTE]

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