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Anonymous Posted on Feb 14, 2012

TWO TYPE R 12 INCH SPEAKERS AND ONE SONY EXPLODE PEAK POWER 1200 WATTS ALL TO A SINGLE CHANNELAMPTYPE R'S ARTE 2 OHS AND THE SONY IS A 4 OHM SPEAKER CAN THEY ALL BE HOOKED UPTO A MONO 800 WATT AMP

THE TWO TYPE R ARE BOTH BRIDGE TWO THEM SELFS WHICH IS THE POSITIVE TO ITS OWN NEGATIVE' THEN I RAN NTHE POSITIVE TO THE POSITIVE SONY 12 INCH EXPLODE THEN TO THE OTHER TYPE R POSITIVE AND THEN TO THE POSITIVE ON THE AMAMP REPEATED THE SAME EXACT WIRING PROCEDURE ON THE NEGATIVES BUT THE SONY EXPLODE ONLY HAS ONE POSITIVE AND ONE NEGATIVE PLEASE HELP

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sparky1500

Matthew Spark

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  • Posted on Mar 01, 2008

SOURCE: JBL Sub Amp Wiring Please

it seems rather redundant to bridge a mono amp. Unless the instruction manual states otherwise, i would assume that one speaker output is identical to the other (ran in parallel, like an A or B speaker, not like Left or Right), and you would present the amp with a two ohm load by wiring one speaker to each output. Bridging it may or may not work, but, again, it just seems redundant.

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brandon day

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  • Posted on Sep 14, 2008

SOURCE: L7 wiring options

yes it should work fine i would bridge them up to 4 ohms each speaker then bridge them back bye conectin them on the amp by puting the red with the red and puting the black with the black if the amp only has 1 chanel then put both speakers red on the same positive on the amp and same with the negative now to bring the ohms up to 4 ohms conect the solid red to the black with dot with a short wire ok then the ones that are not run together will go to the amp giving offf 4 ohms and with the 2 speakers bridged together thay will reduce to 2 ohms witch means that eatch speaker will get about 600 wats of rms from the amp

duby1990

Justin Duby

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  • Posted on Feb 06, 2009

SOURCE: Rockford Punch HE2 wiring question.

if your sub will handle it, bridging it will give you more power. The best thing to do is to find out how much power the amp puts out ( RMS ) and if it is in your power handling range bridge it. It sounds better and gives you a harder punch because of more power.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Mar 23, 2009

SOURCE: repeated blown subs

Unfortunately some of these speakers today... DO NOT PERFORM up to peak as they should.The on logical reason for this to be happening it that the speakers are NOT very DURABLE and cannot take constant playing. I would recommend to L7 the can take alot more abuse than your average speakers. Good luck and thanks for using FIX YA

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 13, 2009

SOURCE: Want to bridge 2 channel amp to push single 4 ohm dvc sub

Hello k_rabbit89,

A 4 ohm DVC sub can be wired in series like you described for an 8 ohm load or the voice coils can be wired in parallel for a 2 ohm load.

If your 2-channel amp isn't stable down to 2 ohms when the channels are bridged (most 2-channel amps are only stable to 4 ohms when bridged), you do not want the voice coils paralleled. The amp will overheat, go into protection mode, and eventually fail completely. A sub with 2 ohm voice coils would be a better fit. That way, you could series the coils for a 4 ohm load and the amp would operate OK with the channels bridged into that load.

But anyway, for the best power from THAT amp to THAT sub, your best wiring solution would be to wire each voice coil to a separate channel. The problem with that is that the signal to each coil needs to be EXACTLY the same or you will have one coil trying to move the cone out while the other one tries to move it in. You can closely approximate identical signals on the output side by using the same input to both channels. Do this by using only one RCA connection (either right or left channel) from your head unit and split it with a "Y" cable.

Hope this helps.

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