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<blockquote data-quote="chronicblazen" data-source="post: 4384433" data-attributes="member: 551508">Yeah.... I&#039;ve also searched on the &quot;can you run only one coil on a DVC&quot; and found a split decision everytime. I&#039;m no expert, but when a sub is advertised as a &quot;4ohm DVC&quot; i would think that it&#039;s informing the buyer that it is a 4 ohm sub, but there is another voice coil that gives you the flexibility to lower, or higher the impedance.&nbsp; Then again, damaging a sub by only using one voice coil also sounds reasonable, seeing the subwoofer manufacturer making it with two voice coils to handle all the power.I&#039;m gonna go ahead and try wiring them down to 2 ohm and see what happens. I didn&#039;t want to do it initially not wanting to mess the amp up, but there&#039;s no way kicker would make an amp that wouldn&#039;t be stable at 2 ohm.&nbsp; I just thought since it was a 4 channel it&#039;d be different, but I&#039;ll give it a try.&nbsp; Still doesn&#039;t make sense why they&#039;re barely hitting. If it was only getting &quot;half the power it can get&quot; through once voice coil, it doesn&#039;t even sound like it&#039;s going at &quot;half its capacity&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chronicblazen, post: 4384433, member: 551508"] Yeah.... I've also searched on the "can you run only one coil on a DVC" and found a split decision everytime. I'm no expert, but when a sub is advertised as a "4ohm DVC" i would think that it's informing the buyer that it is a 4 ohm sub, but there is another voice coil that gives you the flexibility to lower, or higher the impedance. Then again, damaging a sub by only using one voice coil also sounds reasonable, seeing the subwoofer manufacturer making it with two voice coils to handle all the power. I'm gonna go ahead and try wiring them down to 2 ohm and see what happens. I didn't want to do it initially not wanting to mess the amp up, but there's no way kicker would make an amp that wouldn't be stable at 2 ohm. I just thought since it was a 4 channel it'd be different, but I'll give it a try. Still doesn't make sense why they're barely hitting. If it was only getting "half the power it can get" through once voice coil, it doesn't even sound like it's going at "half its capacity". [/QUOTE]

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