Multiple amp wiring...

[marshall 10+ year member]

Say I have a sub that has dual 1 ohm voice coils and I want to connect 3 amps, is wiring the coils in series to make a 2 ohm load and then connecting all 3 amps in mono to it the correct way to use 3 amps on it with a 2 ohm load for each?

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[marshall 10+ year member]

No one knows the answer?????

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

Paralleling 3 amps into the same load would likely bring smoke & flames.

The load each one sees would depend on a bunch of electronics yada-yada that's too complicated to give here.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

think of it this way.

try wiring together two seperate home stereos to just one speaker, then run when you turn it on

the correct way would be to have 3 dual 1 or dual 4 ohm subs.

 

[marshall 10+ year member]

Ok, lets just put it like this, I've heard of people hooking 4-5 amps up to a single, dual-voice coil sub, how do you wire more than one amp per voice coil???

 

[marshall 10+ year member]

?????????????

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

You can sometimes bridge (series) 2 amps into a single coil, but never parallel them.

 

[marshall 10+ year member]

So basically you mean using a positive from one amp and a negative from the other? Or would they not operate like that?