parallel and series question

[myjaja 10+ year member]

The way that diagram is showing, I am pretty sure you have at least 1 of the coils out of phase with the other.... Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. (+ going to - on the right sub).
Either way, what does your ohm meter read at your amp? It should be around 0.8ohm or so for a 1 ohm final load and pretty close to 0.25 if you are really driving it that low in parallel/parallel wiring.

but isnt that how you run it in series?

when wired in series at the amp, it was reading 1 ohm and when wired at parallel, it read about .25 ohm at the amp.

 

[VWBobby 10+ year member]

On the sub itself, it should be wired like that, but not from sub to sub.....that is my only concern of why it would be out of phase.

Here is the correct wiring for your subs. It can either be 1 ohm or 4 ohms for a set of dual 1 ohm DVC subs....

Subwoofer Wiring Diagrams, Two 1 ohm Dual Voice Coil (DVC) Speakers

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

On the sub itself, it should be wired like that, but not from sub to sub.....that is my only concern of why it would be out of phase.
Here is the correct wiring for your subs. It can either be 1 ohm or 4 ohms for a set of dual 1 ohm DVC subs....

Subwoofer Wiring Diagrams, Two 1 ohm Dual Voice Coil (DVC) Speakers

The subs are wired in series, they are not out of phase.

 

[CADENCE SOUND 10+ year member]

its all about the final ohm load on the amp...just stay within the amps limits, and you should be fine regardless of how you wire the subs.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

The way that diagram is showing, I am pretty sure you have at least 1 of the coils out of phase with the other.... Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. (+ going to - on the right sub).
Either way, what does your ohm meter read at your amp? It should be around 0.8ohm or so for a 1 ohm final load and pretty close to 0.25 if you are really driving it that low in parallel/parallel wiring.

Looks like he changed colors on the wire. Assuming the - from both - terminals on one sub is going to BOTH + terminals on the other sub it should do the same thing.

I actually typically series the coils on each sub and parallel the two subs with eachother, if one coil of the DVC goes the sub won't play (easy to know if you blow a single coil) and if one goes down your impedence doesn't drop to a potentially unsafe load.

Really? So itll work either way? Then I wonder why everyone was telling me it wont work that way. I even had my two 12" subs wired parallel at the coils and had them wired series at the amp with a final load at 1 ohm. My amp even went into protect until I rewired it. Now its final load is at .25 ohm with them being parallel at the coils and parallel at the amp. I dont really feel like taking my subs out to rewire them. Its was extremely hard to mount 61 pound subs by hand in the first place. lol

You probably did something wrong or aren't explaining something correctly. 61 pound subs are for pvssies, quit whining and just do it. If you're that much of a cry baby man up and buy some neo motors.

 

[myjaja 10+ year member]

Looks like he changed colors on the wire. Assuming the - from both - terminals on one sub is going to BOTH + terminals on the other sub it should do the same thing.
I actually typically series the coils on each sub and parallel the two subs with eachother, if one coil of the DVC goes the sub won't play (easy to know if you blow a single coil) and if one goes down your impedence doesn't drop to a potentially unsafe load.

You probably did something wrong or aren't explaining something correctly. 61 pound subs are for pvssies, quit whining and just do it. If you're that much of a cry baby man up and buy some neo motors.

Its more like im scared to punch another hole in the sub again than anything. lol But im taking the subs out either way in the next couple of days because im building a new enclosure for my subs.

Also, Im explaining it exactly how it happened. I also played one sub at a time which was .5 ohm each final load and it worked fine and no protection. But ill check all the wiring when I take them out.

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

Take your time with it and you won't punch anymore holes in your subs.