-PLEASE HELP-Whats the best way to wire amp to subwoofer

[Popwarhomie 5,000+ posts]

So what's your point?

That 2019ers are morons. 

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

That sort of thinking is why an audio shop blew one of my subs years ago.

I was having them install a new battery, but they decided to start fiddling with my amp gain. I had it turned down to avoid over driving the sub, but they turned it up just below clipping, then blew the sub while testing. Thankfully they gave me a replacement and owned up to their mistake, but it's stuff like that that has me play it safe when giving advice.

you must got really incompetent shops.  Clipping at 8 ohms is still clipping at 8 ohms, With noobs nowadays they'll be soo dissatisfied with the output that  they'll blow the sub even at 8 ohms, they'll likely put on some bass boost or bass EQ rather than doing proper level adjustments.  With impedance rise you are actually seeing around 16 ohms reactive wired to 8 ohm nominal.  Dont assume that everyone will be as stupid as the shop doing your setup lmaoooo.

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

Now the truth comes out. Just because it happened to one person doesn't mean it'll happen to the next. He's afraid of 2 ohms lol

Guess I don't dare tell him I'm running 800 rms watts to my sub @ 1 ohm and will be powering my 15's with a 3k amp @ 1 ohm also. OMG....heaven forbid don't let him know about it.

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

so how much power will that sub pull from the amp wired to 8 ohms? 25 50 100 150 200? and how much if wired to 2 ohms? Can he get another p3 and wire to 16ohms? Would that be more safe?

It would be safer not to hook up the amp at all lmao

 

[fithwheel]

It would be safer not to hook up the amp at all lmao

I'd comment but I don't want to get my hands dirty