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<blockquote data-quote="taylor" data-source="post: 35461" data-attributes="member: 541245">lets say you have 2 SVC 4 ohm subs and you bridge them off of your 2 channel amp (paralell wiring), this will make your amp see 2 ohms mono.&nbsp; Now assuming your amp is 2 ohm mono stable this will put out more power to your subwoofers , example say your amp is 400watts at 4 ohms mono bridged, now thats at 4 ohms quite a bit of power still... now wire it down to 2 ohm mono and it will give you 800 watts.&nbsp;&nbsp; the impedance of your woofer never changes, you just make your amplifier see smaller or larger loads...Now if you give your amp an 8 ohm load it would see 200 watts.going higher than 4 ohms will never hurt your amp it will just cause weaker sound, but go below 4 ohms on an amp that is not stable down to 2 ohm mono and your amp will either shut off and go into protection mode,&nbsp; melt internally or it may run fine but go into thermal shut down because of too much heat...i don&#039;t recomend doing this but i have also seen fuses bypassed on amps or replaced with larger rated ones so that the amp does not blow fuses when put into 2 ohm....example , bypass fuse on coustic 1000 watt amps and put it in 2 ohm, the amp will run in 2 ohm and rail!!!&nbsp; same with phoenix gold 180.2&#039;s (i forget which model) replace 25 amp fuse with 40 and it will run in 2 ohm fine....Subs can be bought with svc&#039;s or dvc&#039;ssvc&#039;s come with usually 4 ohm or 8 ohm...some less common are 12 ohm and 16 ohmdvc&#039;s commonly come with dual , 2ohm and dual 4ohm&nbsp; other&#039;s may come with dual 8ohm, 6ohm, dual 3 ohmthere is prolly more, but i don&#039;t remember..hope this helped a little</blockquote>

[QUOTE="taylor, post: 35461, member: 541245"] lets say you have 2 SVC 4 ohm subs and you bridge them off of your 2 channel amp (paralell wiring), this will make your amp see 2 ohms mono. Now assuming your amp is 2 ohm mono stable this will put out more power to your subwoofers , example say your amp is 400watts at 4 ohms mono bridged, now thats at 4 ohms quite a bit of power still... now wire it down to 2 ohm mono and it will give you 800 watts. the impedance of your woofer never changes, you just make your amplifier see smaller or larger loads...Now if you give your amp an 8 ohm load it would see 200 watts. going higher than 4 ohms will never hurt your amp it will just cause weaker sound, but go below 4 ohms on an amp that is not stable down to 2 ohm mono and your amp will either shut off and go into protection mode, melt internally or it may run fine but go into thermal shut down because of too much heat...i don't recomend doing this but i have also seen fuses bypassed on amps or replaced with larger rated ones so that the amp does not blow fuses when put into 2 ohm....example , bypass fuse on coustic 1000 watt amps and put it in 2 ohm, the amp will run in 2 ohm and rail!!! same with phoenix gold 180.2's (i forget which model) replace 25 amp fuse with 40 and it will run in 2 ohm fine.... Subs can be bought with svc's or dvc's svc's come with usually 4 ohm or 8 ohm...some less common are 12 ohm and 16 ohm dvc's commonly come with dual , 2ohm and dual 4ohm other's may come with dual 8ohm, 6ohm, dual 3 ohm there is prolly more, but i don't remember.. hope this helped a little [/QUOTE]

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