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<blockquote data-quote="OhmLoad" data-source="post: 8697820" data-attributes="member: 679086"><p>In regards to the woofer, you're not going to be able to or want to run it at two ohms from a mono amp. You have a dual 2 ohm voice coil subwoofer. This means that it will have two terminals (one for each voice coil). Both of these need to be supplied an equal amount of power. Now, from a mono amp which will have one channel, you will need to decide weather you are going to run the wires parallel to the subwoofer. This means running the +and- wires to one of the voice coil terminals and daisy chaining to the +and- of the next voice coil. This will produce a one ohm load on your amp probably producing @ 1400 watts if it does 1000 at 2ohms. The other option (and you will not want to do this) it's possible you could run it in series to the sub, +from amp to + of first voice coil, then - of first voice coil to + of second voice coil, then - of second voice coil back to amp which would produce a 4ohm load on the amp. This will make the amp more efficient at the cost of watts. But you see, you will not be able to run a dual 2ohm voice coil sub at 2ohms on a mono amp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OhmLoad, post: 8697820, member: 679086"] In regards to the woofer, you're not going to be able to or want to run it at two ohms from a mono amp. You have a dual 2 ohm voice coil subwoofer. This means that it will have two terminals (one for each voice coil). Both of these need to be supplied an equal amount of power. Now, from a mono amp which will have one channel, you will need to decide weather you are going to run the wires parallel to the subwoofer. This means running the +and- wires to one of the voice coil terminals and daisy chaining to the +and- of the next voice coil. This will produce a one ohm load on your amp probably producing @ 1400 watts if it does 1000 at 2ohms. The other option (and you will not want to do this) it's possible you could run it in series to the sub, +from amp to + of first voice coil, then - of first voice coil to + of second voice coil, then - of second voice coil back to amp which would produce a 4ohm load on the amp. This will make the amp more efficient at the cost of watts. But you see, you will not be able to run a dual 2ohm voice coil sub at 2ohms on a mono amp. [/QUOTE]
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