Amp Question

You can hook up almost any amount of drivers as low as the impedance doesn't dip lower than 1 ohm. Just wire them in paralle and you're good to go.

 

Well, what is your current driver(s) and voice coil configurations?

 

Okay, Take the positive from each driver and wire it to the positive of the amp. then take the negative of each driver and wire them to the negative of the amp. That is a parallel wiring scheme.

 

Well, My 1500 I had had 2 inputs, but both were summed inside the amp itself. I don't know about the new ones though. If there are 2 inputs(2+, 2-) Just hook 1 wire up to each. If there's only 1 of each, you have to hook both wires to each. There are many other ways to do it as well. For instance, you could hook 1 driver to the other one, then come off there and go to the amp. Let me link you somewhere that will explain all this to you with pics.

 

Electrically speaking, the connections just need to be on the same "plane", or "voltage potential".

Ever seen capactors, multiple capacitors wired using bus-bars to tie them all togther?
That's parallel wiring too.

You could take a wire, go from the amp's + to the first sub's +, then to the next sub's +, then to the next sub's + (etc.)
[And repeat that for the - side of the equation]...and you'd be wired in parallel, also.

You don't need to run two separate runs of wire all the way to the amp.

usually, what guys do is run two separate runs of wire to the terminal cup, inside the box.. and then all you have to do is run one wire from the amp to the terminal cup on the box.

As long as all the + terminals are "tied together", on the same voltage plane... and all the - terminals are "tied together", on the same voltage plane... you are all good. B)


Contrast this to series wiring, where you create a "loop" if you will.
Out the amp's +, into the first sub's +, out that sub's - into the next sub's +, out that sub's -, into the next sub's + (etc.), finally going back to the amp's -.

Hope that helps, not confuses....

 

Here you go!

That's what I was trying to avoid.

 

Great!

Definitely no need to pay someone to do it, if you understand it, of course... because the labor involved is really small.

Building the enclosure, of course, requires a bit more in terms of carpentry skills.. but again, no real biggie if you understand what your goals are. B)

 

Just get decent 12 Ga speaker wire... Radio Shack, $.99 a foot

 

The power will always be split evenly among the subs.

...at least as long as all the subs have the same impedance.. another reason to never mix-n-match sub brands, much less impedances! Then, the power would be distributed goofy, proportional to the impedance.. just ugly.

But, as long as all your subs are the same, then just take the total power that the amp makes at the impedance that you have the subs wired up to present to the amp, and divide that by the number of subwoofers that you have, and you've got the total amount of power that each sub will see.

A 1200 watt amp with two subs, each would see 600 watts.

 

Go to Termpro.com and search the classifieds. Lot of great amps and great prices. Beware though, alot of them are modded.