y does mono amp have 4 speaker terminals

[oneforyou 10+ year member]

I bought a US Amp 4000d today and was expecting to see a mono block amp. Mono meaning one channel. So when i opened the box i see 2 neg terms and 2 pos terms. How is this a mono amp?

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[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

they probably go together on the inside of the amp so you dont have to twist two sets of speaker wires together and jam them in the holes

 

[saturnspl1991 10+ year member]

they are there just to make things easier //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/*******.gif.a649d21efc0d1fd4890a6428166586c1.gif

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

all it does is make it easier to wire up your subs, like if you have a dvc, you can just run one pair of wires to one set of terminals, and the other wires to the other, so you dont have a mess of wires, and connectors connecting them

 

[oneforyou 10+ year member]

you mean they are linked together on inside. I was just confused to see it has more then 2 speaker term. It appears that it wouldnt be a true mono amp but i wonder if all US amp mono's are the same way

 

[oneforyou 10+ year member]

so it cant really be bridged thought like a 2 channel

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

nope

 

[BassAce 10+ year member]

They are automatically connected in parallel in side the amp. When I mean that, they are they same outputs and the positives and negatives are the same.

 

[oneforyou 10+ year member]

so i know this sounds stoooopid but i got the SE 15 subs and decided to go with sx because i noticed a major difference from someone else's system. So i took my sub back and im getting a SX 2ohm dvc sub.

I have the box and all and getting sub ordered but i had a credit with my dealer so he gave me 2 10 inch pioneer SVC subs NIB because i already had a pre fabed from a while back. How will i wire these up so i dont blow these temporary subs.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

its bridged inside the amp //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

it would say in the manual for the amp //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

they probably go together on the inside of the amp so you dont have to twist two sets of speaker wires together and jam them in the holes

Ding, Ding, Ding!

Yup.

they are there just to make things easier //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/*******.gif.a649d21efc0d1fd4890a6428166586c1.gif

Yup.

you mean they are linked together on inside.

Yup.

I was just confused to see it has more then 2 speaker term. It appears that it wouldnt be a true mono amp but i wonder if all US amp mono's are the same way

I don't know about all of USamps' monoblocks are but I would suspect so....since that one is.

There are several monoblocks on the market that have multiple output terminals. And yes, as stated so many times, they are simply there to make life easier for the end user. When you get to this level of usable wattage it's a pretty fair guess that more than one sub is a possibility. So, various manufacturers decided to make things easier for those using more than one sub, multiple VCs on single subs (sometimes up to quad, yanno...).

so it cant really be bridged thought like a 2 channel

Since it only has one channel this would be a negative, ghost rider...

 

[oneforyou 10+ year member]

specs for amp

1500 x 1 1ohm

450 x 1 2ohm

200 x 1 4 ohm

subs are model tsw256c 800 watt max

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

give it a whirl

 

[oneforyou 10+ year member]

Thanks for the help even tho i am a tard.

Im new to the whole not going to BB or CC for systems and setup. I normally had ppl do it for me.

 

[oneforyou 10+ year member]

well he wouldnt give me cash back so he tossed me the subs and said have a great day. So unless someone wants some cheap 10's NIB i will throw them in 2marrow.