mono amp w dual speaker output

[Matador 10+ year member]

if you have a mono amp that has 2 speaker outputs, and if you have 2 subs, can you connect both subs to one output? (so dat impedance is loweR)

Click to read more...

 

[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

The amp is internally bridged, there are just 2 different terminals for wiring ease. Like if your amp put out 1000@1 ohm, you could hook two 2 ohm subs each to their own terminal, and the amp would still see a 1 ohm load. Or you could just 'bridge' it and use the pos. of one and the neg. of the other. What amp and subs do you have?

 

[Matador 10+ year member]

2 12'' ed Ks DVC 2ohm (each sub wired to 4ohms) and thus wired @ 2ohms for both of them. i got the Xtant A6001T,

so you saying that i can just hook up each speaker to each terminal when both of them wired at 4ohms, and the circuitry inside will "bridge" both subs thus dropping down the impedance to 2ohms? asking this since it puts 300rmx@4ohms, n 600rms@2ohms.

would doing this be the same as just bridgin both and hooking it up to just one output?

 

[paikiah 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by Matador 2 12'' ed Ks DVC 2ohm (each sub wired to 4ohms) and thus wired @ 2ohms for both of them. i got the Xtant A6001T,

so you saying that i can just hook up each speaker to each terminal when both of them wired at 4ohms, and the circuitry inside will "bridge" both subs thus dropping down the impedance to 2ohms? asking this since it puts 300rmx@4ohms, n 600rms@2ohms.

 

would doing this be the same as just bridgin both and hooking it up to just one output?

Yup, that's correct. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Matador 10+ year member]

but how do we know that it will bridge both of them in parallel? cuz theoritically it could bridge them in series?

 

[more_spl 10+ year member]

mono amps w/ 2 input ch's for speakers are wired into paralel inside the amp.. there's just 2 inputs for easier installation for multiple speakers

 

[w00t w00t 10+ year member]

Originally posted by more_spl mono amps w/ 2 input ch's for speakers are wired into paralel inside the amp.. there's just 2 inputs for easier installation for multiple speakers

can someone ple find me a diagram

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by w00t w00t can someone ple find me a diagram

Take off the cover plate and look for yourself. The amp builders know that with a sub amp the user may be hooking up 2 or 4 or 8 etc. sets of speaker wires so instead of having to cram them all into one terminal they provide you with 2. If you hook a 4 ohm load up to each terminal the amp will see 2 ohms.