parrelel or series?

[vampizhere 10+ year member]

I am running 2 RE 10's with this amp. http://www.hifisoundconnection.com/Shop/Control/Product/fp/vpid/1330811/vpcsid/0/SFV/30046 would it be better to run them in series or parralel? they are DVC 4 ohm. I hooked them in series and bridged the amp but they dont sound any louder or bassier then my 6x9's. I havent tuned it at all ( gains ) cause i have no idea what im doing and the amps website doesnt give an info on that sort of thing really. Any idea of a site that shows how to do it?

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[psycho72 10+ year member]

Read the gain setting tut at JL (linked in the sticky in amps). Oh wait sorry I though that amp was a single channel mono, its not so I assume you connected the woofers to the amps r+ & l- or whatever it is for your amp and if you wired your speaker in series you a showing the amp a 16 ohm load which I think puts your power at like 50watts a woofer. Go over bcae1.com and do some reading to understand why and then wire a series parallel to acheive 4 ohms and ~200w a speaker.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

That amp is way too powerful for those subs. You'll probably have to wire one sub to each channel, with each individual sub's coils in parallel for a 2ohm load on each channel. However, you'll have to set the gain VERY conservatively.

Or, look for a new amp.

 

[vampizhere 10+ year member]

Ok, so I am going to paste a few pics on how i should wire these things up and someone plz tell me which one to do plz. Yeah I just checked the link and the numbers on top or the site are messed up. If u scroll down a bit it gives you the right numbers on rms and peak.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

bridge amp and do the first pic

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

I'd run one sub per channel and do the second pic. IMO it's a bigger headache than needed to try to wire the two subs together.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

^ not real hard, both will work. and will get about the same wattage.

 

[vampizhere 10+ year member]

Yeah I alrdy have them set up like pic one but I havent set my gains yet so that might be it. I'm gonna have to figure out how to do that. Thanks for the help guys.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

there is a thread sticky, up top of the amp fourm with gain setting help

 

[vampizhere 10+ year member]

Ok another quick question again. Since I have alrdy wired them up like the first pic, and they are DVC 4 ohm subs, What is the ending ohms going to be? For my calculations I think that they are still at 4 ohms, so does that mean that im running the said 400+ rms to the subs, so about 200 rms per then? Sorry for the confusion and newbiness but I have to start somewhere.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

yep. 4 ohms