Wiring My Shivas to Terminals In My Box, Help me Please :-D

[SpeeDFX 10+ year member]

Hey everyone, I built my box this after noon; finally after all this waiting around. Anyway, I have 2 terminal cups and my box is a two-chamber box for both my shivas. They are going to be powered by one 1200.1. I have a few questions as to how I go about the wiring process...

What guage wire do I use to wire the voice coils and wire them to the terminals?

I believe the shivas are each dual 8ohm voice coils. I want to run each sub at 4 ohms, how do I wire the voice coils parallel or series, and how do I do it?

I'm pretty sure the best method to connect the wires is solder but I am not sure. Is it? If it IS, then what grade of solder should I use, and what Soldering technique should I use?

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Chris

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[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

you'll want to run them in parallel....so run all the pos. to one channel and all the neg. to one channel...and soder is probably the best way to connect them

 

[SpeeDFX 10+ year member]

I dont understand... ok On each of my subwoofers there should be 2 positive, and 2 negative, right? (because each one is dual voice coil). Do I run a wire from each positive tab on the voice coils to the red thing on the terminal, or do I take a small piece of wire and connect the positive voice coils together, then run a single wire from one of them to the red tab on the terminal and do the same thing for the negative (but connect to the black terminal)?

 

[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

 

[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

so basicly....for each sub....run both pos and both neg. into one wire and hook them up to the terminals.... then run the pos and neg from the terminals together and then to the amp......im assuming by 1200.1 u mean the jbl correct?

 

[SpeeDFX 10+ year member]

Ok thanks, and do you know what gauge of wire I should use for this?