W6 Wiring Help!

[phensway 10+ year member]

I have six of the original JL audio 10w6 dual 6 ohm subs and one sundown 1500d. I know that i can run three of them at 1 ohm, or 4 ohm. I dont have room for six of them, so what i need to know is what impedence i can get with either 4 or 5 subs. So im looking at either 8 or 10 6 ohm coils. The wire wizard on rockfordfosgates site doesnt calculate for 6 ohm coils, and i have no idea because ive never worked with 6 ohm coils. ANy help will be greatly appreciated. thanks!

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[jnralp00 10+ year member]

12 or 24 ohms for 4 of them..? I may be wrong though

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

You're looking at:

8 in parallel: 0.75 ohms

10 in parallel: 0.6 ohms

Series 4 subs, then parallel: 3 ohms

Series 5 subs, then parallel: 2.4 ohms

 

[GAM3OVR 5,000+ posts]

jl audio, search for discontinued products, they have guide for wiring

 

[Tehgregzor 10+ year member]

why do you have so many subs?

 

[Pioneer~Saturn 5,000+ posts]

I have six of the original JL audio 10w6 dual 6 ohm subs and one sundown 1500d. I know that i can run three of them at 1 ohm, or 4 ohm. I dont have room for six of them, so what i need to know is what impedence i can get with either 4 or 5 subs. So im looking at either 8 or 10 6 ohm coils. The wire wizard on rockfordfosgates site doesnt calculate for 6 ohm coils, and i have no idea because ive never worked with 6 ohm coils. ANy help will be greatly appreciated. thanks!

I would go with 4 just so you can get more power to each and have more space to optimize with a better box...

But with the 4 dual 6 ohm subs you can run them down to .75 ohm or 3 ohms...

To get the .75 ohm you run each subs coil in parallel (3 ohms) and each sub in parallel (3/4=.75 ohm)..

To get the 3 ohm you run each subs 2 coils in series (12 ohms for each sub) and then all of the subs in parallel (12/4=3 ohms)..

Good luck

 

[jnralp00 10+ year member]

lol... I didn't really think about it good enough at all. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Pioneer~Saturn 5,000+ posts]

lol... I didn't really think about it good enough at all. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

wat?

 

[phensway 10+ year member]

Would you run a sundown at .75 ohms? OR can i get enough power at 2 ohms? OR is 1 ohm load good enough for three of them?

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

From experience, those subs are great with 400w to a trio. They aren't going to like 1500w to three at all. I had 6 of them in a reg cab Ranger running off a 2100 HCCA at 2 ohms. The enclosure was around 4 cf sealed with 3 chambers. It was feel it in your chest, blur your vision loud, not DB Drag loud because it was set up for music and sounded great, but for a sealed setup back in the day, it was loud.

 

[phensway 10+ year member]

So is a sundown 1500 at 2 ohms good enough for 6? lmao, i know there is only one way to find out and that is to try it, but i dont want to build 5 boxes to see which one is the best.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

That's pretty much the power I was running. The subs didn't want any more than that.