Strapping amps

[alvitae 10+ year member]

Is there a way to run two amps with out strapping them? I would like to run one amp to each sub.

If I strap the amps they become 2 ohm stable. That won't work for me. I have 2 dual 1 ohm subs and would like to run each amp at a half ohm. Any ideas how to do it? just plugging each sub into a separate amp isn't good I don't think...

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[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

maxxlink

 

[djman37 5,000+ posts]

y splitter. properly set your gains on those amps though some amps have an output as well.

you could strap using a higher load.

 

[allout13 10+ year member]

Is there a way to run two amps with out strapping them? I would like to run one amp to each sub.
If I strap the amps they become 2 ohm stable. That won't work for me. I have 2 dual 1 ohm subs and would like to run each amp at a half ohm. Any ideas how to do it? just plugging each sub into a separate amp isn't good I don't think...

If you strap the amps at 1 ohm, then each amp is seeing a .5ohm load. So if you wired your subs to 1 ohm, then you should have no problem running them the way you wanted.

You could probably get away with running the amps separately, but you would just have to match the gains on both amps. (Im not sure about that though)

 

[brian84corvette 10+ year member]

there is a post some where telling how to set the gain so both amps put out the same using a dmm to test. just read it somewheres...

 

[alvitae 10+ year member]

maxx-link hmmm. So that wouldnt set the amps to bridge mode and be 2 ohm stable? If not that would be the way to go then I would think.