wsu99999 Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 I have a DVC Subwoofer and I'm running a plate amp that has 2 sets of speaker wire coming out of it. I'm pretty sure that you would need to have both sets of wire to have the amplifier run properly. Does anyone know if there is another way to hook this up aside from just running both pairs of wire to each voice coil? With dual speaker wire coming from the plate amp, can I drop the ohm's on the sub by running in parallel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 You may be able to run one voice coil off each set of terminals on the amp. What are the VC's resistance? What is the amp rated to as far as it's Ohm rating (8, 4, 2?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wsu99999 Posted September 25, 2008 Author Share Posted September 25, 2008 The way I have it wired is one set to each vc. I'm just curious how one would drop it down with a single woofer. In theory, could I run two subs off each amp lead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wsu99999 Posted October 2, 2008 Author Share Posted October 2, 2008 Does anyone have any info on the Swan amp I'm using? I hooked it up to my existing subwoofer (dual M&K VX-4s) and the old M&K hit's much harder and it's only like a 50w amp. The swan is extremely beefy and would appear to be a good amp. Anyone know what the problem could be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWho Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 I would wager that your amplifier's wires are just paralleled at the output of the amplifier....so really you would only need to run one set to your speaker. As far as your DVC sub...it is general practice to hook the speaker terminals together and then connect to the amplifier with only one set of wires. So if each coil is 4 ohms, then connecting them in parallel (red to red, black to black) will yield a 2 ohm load to the amplifier (which would have one red wire on one red terminal and one black wire on one black terminal). Connecting them in series (one red terminal to one black terminal) will yield an 8 ohm load to the amplifier (which would have one red wire connected to the empty red terminal and one black wire connected to the empty black terminal). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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