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<blockquote data-quote="O2JR" data-source="post: 4572875" data-attributes="member: 593524"><p><span style="color: Blue">thx for the response. That site is very useful for people who don't know shet of electrical </span>//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif<span style="color: Blue">. Thx god I know some, my dad is electronical eng and he know some of it. I'm a civil eng myself and I did take some classes of electricial eng, So i kinda get the picture of what Im doing. The main questions of it, is what's the correct connections to make the amps works well without getting both fuses to get burned. I read some interesting stuff on that site:</span></p><p></p><p>"<strong>Dual Voice Coil Woofers:</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue">Dual Voice Coil (DVC) woofers are simply speakers with two voice coils wrapped around the same voice coil former. This allows the speaker to be connected in 2 different ways. With the individual coils wired in series, the resulting impedance will be 2 times the impedance of each individual coil. Wiring the coils in parallel will make the impedance 1/2 the impedance of each individual coil. This means that a speaker with dual 4 ohm coils can be wired to 2 ohms or 8 ohms.</span>"</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.bcae1.com/images/gifs/vomresspkrinstprim.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I have the same example, I have 4 ohm DVC. and I have them wired in parallel so I have 2 ohm load. the amp is 900 RMS x 1 channel @ 2 ohm. Im using 2 subs, that means 450 x 2 channels @ 2 ohm, am I right?</p><p></p><p>Also I read this:</p><p></p><p>"<strong>Mono Amplifiers:</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue">Many mono amplifiers have 4 speaker output terminals (two positives and two negatives). Lets compare a stereo amplifier capable of driving a 2 ohm load on each channel to a mono amplifier capable of driving a 2 ohm load. Let's say that we have four 4 ohm speakers. If we want to run all 4 speakers on the stereo amplifier, we would simply connect 2 speakers to each channel. Now, when we look at the mono amplifier amp with 4 speaker terminals (the same number as the stereo amplifier), you might think that you can connect 2 speakers to each pair of speaker terminals.</span> <span style="color: Black"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px">The problem is... the speaker terminals inside the amp are connected together in a parallel configuration (2 positives together 2 negatives together). So, if we connect 2 speakers to each pair of speaker terminals on the amplifier, we actually have a 1 ohm load. You can check to see if the terminals are in parallel with an ohm meter.</span></strong></span><span style="color: Black">"</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue">That's the part I'm lost atm, how do I have to connect the wires to the amp?? Can someone help me on doing some kind of diagram?</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue"> </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue">I need to know the connection that I have to do from the speakers to the amp here:</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue"> </span></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/oordonez4/spek.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue"> </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue"> ...peace...</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="O2JR, post: 4572875, member: 593524"] [COLOR=Blue]thx for the response. That site is very useful for people who don't know shet of electrical [/COLOR][IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG][COLOR=Blue]. Thx god I know some, my dad is electronical eng and he know some of it. I'm a civil eng myself and I did take some classes of electricial eng, So i kinda get the picture of what Im doing. The main questions of it, is what's the correct connections to make the amps works well without getting both fuses to get burned. I read some interesting stuff on that site:[/COLOR] "[B]Dual Voice Coil Woofers:[/B] [COLOR=Blue]Dual Voice Coil (DVC) woofers are simply speakers with two voice coils wrapped around the same voice coil former. This allows the speaker to be connected in 2 different ways. With the individual coils wired in series, the resulting impedance will be 2 times the impedance of each individual coil. Wiring the coils in parallel will make the impedance 1/2 the impedance of each individual coil. This means that a speaker with dual 4 ohm coils can be wired to 2 ohms or 8 ohms.[/COLOR]" [IMG]http://www.bcae1.com/images/gifs/vomresspkrinstprim.gif[/IMG] I have the same example, I have 4 ohm DVC. and I have them wired in parallel so I have 2 ohm load. the amp is 900 RMS x 1 channel @ 2 ohm. Im using 2 subs, that means 450 x 2 channels @ 2 ohm, am I right? Also I read this: "[B]Mono Amplifiers:[/B] [COLOR=Blue]Many mono amplifiers have 4 speaker output terminals (two positives and two negatives). Lets compare a stereo amplifier capable of driving a 2 ohm load on each channel to a mono amplifier capable of driving a 2 ohm load. Let's say that we have four 4 ohm speakers. If we want to run all 4 speakers on the stereo amplifier, we would simply connect 2 speakers to each channel. Now, when we look at the mono amplifier amp with 4 speaker terminals (the same number as the stereo amplifier), you might think that you can connect 2 speakers to each pair of speaker terminals.[/COLOR] [COLOR=Black][B][SIZE=14px]The problem is... the speaker terminals inside the amp are connected together in a parallel configuration (2 positives together 2 negatives together). So, if we connect 2 speakers to each pair of speaker terminals on the amplifier, we actually have a 1 ohm load. You can check to see if the terminals are in parallel with an ohm meter.[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR][B][SIZE=14px][/size][/B][SIZE=14px][/SIZE][COLOR=Black]"[/COLOR] [COLOR=Blue]That's the part I'm lost atm, how do I have to connect the wires to the amp?? Can someone help me on doing some kind of diagram?[/COLOR] [COLOR=Blue] [/COLOR] [COLOR=Blue]I need to know the connection that I have to do from the speakers to the amp here:[/COLOR] [COLOR=Blue] [/COLOR] [IMG]http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/oordonez4/spek.jpg[/IMG] [COLOR=Blue] [/COLOR] [COLOR=Blue] ...peace...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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