Wiring two 12 inch 1200w pioneers on a 2000w monoblock

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400 watts delivered to 300 watt speakers the only way to do this would be to wire two subwoofers in series so that the power needed to drive them will be 600 watts to max, however this will increase your impedance on the speaker (8 ohms) load so what you can do to compensate is get an 8 ohm 600 watt resistor and put it in parallel with the speakers you will then have 4 ohms of impedance at a total capacity of 600 watts of power In other words the amplifier won't blow these out now.

Tygh Duval

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• Posted on Mar 13, 2008

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The best you can do is connect the dual 2 ohm voice coils of each respective sub in series (4 ohms total per sub) and then connect each sub to one channel of the amp. This will give each sub 1000W, which is the rated maximum from Kicker.

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Actually the amp should be able to power both of your subs. You have a 2 channel 760 watts amp
380 x 2 = 760 watts. If you want to go with a more powerful amp I would go with a 2 channel 2400 wats amp 1200 per channel = 2400 watts total. Which the peak power of your subs if you go over 2400 you have the risk of blowing your subs easily.

Larry Tezekjian

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• Posted on Jan 28, 2009

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Usually an 800 watt peak sub would be a 400 watt rms. Hmmmm. Anyway, just bridge the amp (1x 380) nd keep the gain up enough to stay clean. Watch the sub and turn up gain until it starts to distort, then back it down a hair. Do this with the CD players volume up 2/3 to 3/4 volume with the BASS and treble at zero (bass better at minus 4 or so if you are a bass head! Hope thishelps.

Larry T
Winona Lake, IN
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this is from pioneer  http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pio/pe/images/portal/cit_11221/126763081TRD1217-A.pdf