Reconing 4 inch coils

[bump465 10+ year member]

I recently picked up a pair of orion hcca's 15 d-4 for a steal.

The problem is i cannot provide 4kw at 1 ohm. I was looking to recone these to d2's so i can stop clipping them.

Should i recone these with an orion kit? I know that these subs are considered "sub-par" as far as high end goes, so should i instead recone with some other recone kit?

Iv never done this before so all input is welcome

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[mahc 10+ year member]

@SPLaudio‎ ;

 

[gckless 5,000+ posts]

What do you mean you can't provide 4kW at 1 ohm? Under or over powering has nothing to do with clipping.

 

[Spl4200]

It is when you max ur gain to try to make them louder lol.

 

[csu87 10+ year member]

well that's just being dumb

don't waste your money on recons to run at .5ohm, waste your money on a proper amp to power them

 

[bump465 10+ year member]

3 fails in a row...

allow me to clarify.

I have 2 amplifiers rated at 2kw each, and i have 2 subs rated at 2kw each.

however as the subwoofers are d4 coils i can either run at 4ohm bridged or 1 ohm bridged.

i wired to 4 ohms and therefore 2 ohms to each amplifier.

This results in only giving 1kw to each of my speakers, so in turn i clip them pretty hard to get some decent output.

Im not riding my gain like volume control, and im not trying to wire my amps to 1/4ohm.

I just want to find a recone kit that will allow me to run my amps at 2ohm mono while not burning up under ~2kw rms.

I see alot of 3inch coils but i cant find next to anything that uses 4in.

as for contacting a third party such as splaudio, id rather not as i dont even want to know how much shipping will cost i would prefer to do this on my own if at all possible, as id like to learn how to do it as well.

 

[serjr711. 10+ year member]

Your amps won't run at 1/2 ohm?

 

[CerwinVega_Fan 10+ year member]

Try and trade them for d2's.

Wouldn't waste money on recones if u don't have to

 

[bump465 10+ year member]

Your amps won't run at 1/2 ohm?

Theres no way i can support 800A of current in my set up. ill be dipping enough wiring to 1 im not competition so im not intentionally trying to abuse anything.

As much as i would like to just trade for some d2's that probably wont happen in my area. So i was hoping i could keep the metal parts and drop an even more ****** 4inch coil in there, any ideas?