wire on the sub

[memphis_vette 10+ year member]

ok so hooking up both coils is regular speaker wire ok or should i get bigger like 8 g wire ne differance

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[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

I have a car... is it fast?

 

[memphis_vette 10+ year member]

huh?

 

[Tehgregzor 10+ year member]

I have a car... is it fast?

Hahah!

Anyways, i'm pretty sure you're talking about the wire from the battery to the amp. Well, you CANNOT use speaker wire. Under any circumstance. If you have a small amp, 8 would be OK...but 4 would be better for anything above 500watts RMS. If you only have 250 or 300 then 8 gauge is fine.

Just for your information...in general, i try to always use the biggest wire i can cram into my 12volt power input on my amp. Same with the ground wire. More never hurts. NEVER.

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After rereading your post, i think i've come to the conclusion you mean the terminals on the sub. In which case, yeah just use the correct diagram for what ohm load you want the sub to be at. Do you have dual 4 or 2? I know the Brutus can go 1ohm stable so hopefully you have dual 2. With either, you're going to want to wire the voice coils in parallel.

 

[memphis_vette 10+ year member]

oh no im talking about a dvc sub what size wire should i use to link the vc's

 

[memphis_vette 10+ year member]

yea i have dual 2 and im getting a new memphis m3 next week so ill have it at 550 rms a piece at 2 ohms

 

[memphis_vette 10+ year member]

right now im using like 16 g wire on terminals so should i get sum 8 g for the sub terminals?

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

1. How much power are you running.

2. What is the coil config of your woofers.

3. How many woofers.

4. What are you wiring them to at the amp.

5. How exactly are you wiring them at the amp. (Series, parallel, stereo, mono)

 

[memphis_vette 10+ year member]

i have one sub now and its at 550 rms next week im getting another that will also be 550 rms so total is 1100 on a brutus bxi 1606d amp at 2ohms donno about the parallel stuff

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

Wire the subs using both terminals on the amp. This way you can use 12 gauge all around.

Like this:

 

[2critical 10+ year member]

Wire the subs using both terminals on the amp. This way you can use 12 gauge all around.
Like this:

x2 12ga. is fine