wireing 15" orion H2 inside house

[paintball9908 10+ year member]

I have a 15" orion h2, I wanna some how wire it so it plays inside my house. I hooked it up to a 450 watt receiver and I know thats like no power for that sub and all, but it was moving a little (this is like with the knob at 35%) then when I went to gove it more power, the receiver would just cut, sounded like a fuse would turn on or off or what ever, so then I would have to turn the knob back down and it would then play. any suggestions of were I can get the supplys to make this work would be awsome, also why is my receiver cutting out, (the receiver is an indoor one that plugs into an outlet)

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[937DYTBOI 5,000+ posts]

dont have enough power for that sub obviously, pick up another amp or something, or go with a diffrent sub thats rediclous for a house speaker. Or u could also jus us the wall socket for power. ha ha

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

How did you have the sub wired ? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Sonnick 10+ year member]

Obviously it's gonna cut out because the receiver is going into protect. Mine does the same thing, I have the Uber parallel to ~1.8 ohms, getting probably 300 watts and still BANGS yet stays so musical! If you have it wired in parallel, then it will be seeing a lower impedance than it's used to (most home theater setups run at 8 ohms if I'm not mistaken). Unless it's dual 4 wired in series, it will cut out, and probably will even then because the receiver will be trying too hard to put out that power

 

[cyantist 10+ year member]

Sounds like it's cutting out because it's impedance is too low for your amp to drive.. Your home amp probably wants to see an 8ohm load, and your H2 is probably wired for 4ohms.. There's no way to safely run this on your current amp.. Pick up a plate amp, or otherwise find one that is 4ohm stable and make sure you wire the H2 in series for a 4ohm load (assuming it's a dual 2ohm sub)..

 

[Sonnick 10+ year member]

Sounds like it's cutting out because it's impedance is too low for your amp to drive.. Your home amp probably wants to see an 8ohm load, and your H2 is probably wired for 4ohms.. There's no way to safely run this on your current amp.. Pick up a plate amp, or otherwise find one that is 4ohm stable and make sure you wire the H2 in series for a 4ohm load (assuming it's a dual 2ohm sub)..

Beat you to it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif lol

 

[paintball9908 10+ year member]

ok so I need an amp that is 4ohm stable, were can I find such a thing??? I looked on ebay but cant find anything with the power I need...

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Parts express has a decent selection of plate amps that will suit your needs //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Crown_amps]

same thing happend to me years back with a old shitty 8 ohm 2 channel technics amp that hooked up a 4 ohm load to it...every time past a certian volume it shut off the amp.

i upgraded my subs and amp ...now its bass heaven

get a 500 or 1000 watt plate amp from parts express @ 4 ohms and you will be laughing...

just try to sound deaden your house...now that a pain in the ***

 

[paintball9908 10+ year member]

awww shit got it wired in series and nopt cutting out, I guess before my problem was parallel, any how I need an enclsoure 4 my sub so off to home depot, any suggestions for sealed v.s. proted with it being in a house, and 4 now its WAY under powered...

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

20ft3 tuned to 10hz

 

[paintball9908 10+ year member]

20 cubic feet ahhhh is this some kinda inside joke buddy???? I hope that was a miss type //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif :laugh: //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif :laugh: //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif :laugh: //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif :laugh:

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

well kinda but home audio enclosures are way bigger than car enclosures, probalby more like 8 ft3

 

[paintball9908 10+ year member]

ok so make it extra big, now shall it be ported or sealed???

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

it matters what you have for the rest of your setup, if you already have great midbass speakers that can go low tune it to like 20 hz.