installing my new amp tomorrow and i want to make sure everything is right.

[impaled 10+ year member]

i just got my amp in the mail and i am ready to install it tomorrow and i just wanted to make sure that i wasnt going to blow anything.

my subs: 2 planet audio 12" dual 2 ohm voice coil, with the voice coils ran in series. 500 watts rms each.

my new amp: infinity 611a. mono subwoofer amp. 456 watts rms @ 4 ohms and 657 @ 2 ohms.

if i am correct (please correct me if i am not), i will be running it at 2 ohms, into both subs.

everything should work fine right??? pleae let me know if you have any recommendations before the install.

thank you in advance for your assistance.

Click to read more...

 

[XanderMoser 10+ year member]

So your voice coils are in series to make each sub 4 ohms, and the subs are in parallel to make your total impedance 2 ohms, right?

How much are the subs rated for?

Good luck with the install. Be careful hooking up power and ground. Don't switch em!

 

[bk12321 10+ year member]

Be careful hooking up power and ground. Don't switch em!

Lol I actually did that once. Long time ago, and beer was involved, but I wasn't paying attention and switched them. Fuses FTW!

 

[w00tah 10+ year member]

Series, then paralleled together = 2 ohm final load.

You are correct sir. And you should be fine, as long as you set your gains right and you don't play it at full volume 24/7....

Morgan

 

[impaled 10+ year member]

the subs are 500 watts rms each, so just like i thought i should be fine. thanks for the conformation. if anybody else has advice, please chime in.

 

[XanderMoser 10+ year member]

You're going to be underpowering your subs quite a bit. So be very wary of clipping your amp. Be gentle with the gain. You won't have any headroom, so your amp will clip well before your subs reach their limit.

 

[impaled 10+ year member]

i installed it today and something is worng. it sounds horrible and it is way quieter than it was with my 200 watt memphis amp.

what i did was rewire the voice coils from parallel to series. i put the + off the amp onto voice coil "a" and the "-" off the amp on voice coil "b" and connected the other + and "-" together.

that was how i intrepreted the diagram...

the things i do know is that it has power, the power light is on. when i turn the gain all the way up, the clipping light flashes.

i am really confused and pissed off now and dont know waht to do. any ideas would be great. thanks.