Quick Question....

[xxBURT0Nxx 10+ year member]

Okay, so I have a kicker zx350.2 and want to run 4 speakers off of it. Speakers are 4 ohms each and obviously I want to run the amp at 2 ohms, so I will wire them like this:

http://www.crutchfield.com/learningcenter/car/subwoofers_wiring.html?imageID=4SVC%5F4%2Dohm%5F2ch

Now basically what I want to know is do the bridged and positive wires have to go to the terminals of the speakers for this to work, or can they just be taped into the wires. Reason I ask is I don't really want to run more wiring across the car to bridge the speakers and such if I can just go to the wires in the harness behind the stereo and bridge them there. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

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[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

Okay, so I have a kicker zx350.2 and want to run 4 speakers off of it. Speakers are 4 ohms each and obviously I want to run the amp at 2 ohms, so I will wire them like this:
http://www.crutchfield.com/learningcenter/car/subwoofers_wiring.html?imageID=4SVC%5F4%2Dohm%5F2ch

Now basically what I want to know is do the bridged and positive wires have to go to the terminals of the speakers for this to work, or can they just be taped into the wires. Reason I ask is I don't really want to run more wiring across the car to bridge the speakers and such if I can just go to the wires in the harness behind the stereo and bridge them there. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

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[xxBURT0Nxx 10+ year member]

okay so when I did the wiring for the amp I just ran 2 speaker wires from the amp to the front of the car where the headunit is at and tied into the existing speaker wires. Now I would like to add rear speakers to the same amp, so the question I have is do I need to run the bridged wires (referring to diagram in first post) from the speaker terminals, or can they just be tied into the speaker wire?

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

just do it correctly and run proper wire from the amp

 

[xxBURT0Nxx 10+ year member]

http://flickr.com/photos/23046174@N08/2327065612/

Okay, so here is a diagram basically... Do I have to connect to the actual terminals on the speakers (diagram on left) or can you just connect to the wire for the speakers (diagram on right)???

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

http://flickr.com/photos/23046174@N08/2327065612/Okay, so here is a diagram basically... Do I have to connect to the actual terminals on the speakers (diagram on left) or can you just connect to the wire for the speakers (diagram on right)???

technically you can do it either way

 

[xxBURT0Nxx 10+ year member]

And if each of those speakers is 4 ohms, but I wire it by connecting the wires and not the actual terminals I will still get an impedence of 2 ohms on each channel for the amp right?

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

And if each of those speakers is 4 ohms, but I wire it by connecting the wires and not the actual terminals I will still get an impedence of 2 ohms on each channel for the amp right?

you should get total load on the wire, at the amp

 

[xxBURT0Nxx 10+ year member]

Thanks a lot man... you were a big help!!!!