Wiring 2 amps to make sub think it's one amp?

[c_hayhurst 10+ year member]

I have two, 2 Ohm DVC subs (TC-9 equivalent) which can do 900W RMS each. I also have 2 amps which are 2 Ohm stable, but not 1 Ohm stable, and each one does 1x500W RMS at 4 Ohms or 1x900W RMS at 2 Ohms.

I want to run each amp at 2 Ohms and get 900W to each sub. Currently, I can only run the sub at 4 Ohms or 1 Ohm using a 2-subs-off-one-amp configuration. 1 Ohm is out of the question since the amps cannot handle that.

Is there a way to link the amps together so they act like 1 amp, so I can use the amps at a 2 Ohm load and get 900W RMS out of each amp to each speaker?

To answer your question before you ask it: I'm an idiot and thought that I could run one 2-Ohm DVC sub off one amp under a 2-Ohm load. Apparently this is not possible: it's either 1 Ohm or 4 Ohms.

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[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

No you can't do what you want. Your options are run both subs off one amp giving 900w to the pair or run one amp to each coil of a single sub and send it 1800. Even if the amps were strappable there is no way that they can be wired to "see" 2 ohms per amp other what I just laid out above.

Strapped amps "see" half of the final load. In your case you could wire the subs to 8 ohms: each amp gets a 4 ohm load produces 4 ohm power and you would be better served just running each sub on its own amp @ 4 ohms, 2 ohms: each amp gets a 1 ohm load which it might not like very much or .5 ohms: .25 ohms per amps don't hold your breath on that one...on second thought hold your breath you don't want to breathe the smoke coming out of the amps.