Blowing fues trying to hook up my two 4 ohm subwoofers in bridge and in a parallel hook up for more power. but it keeps blowing the fues when i turn it up all the seting are right i put it in mono i dont know why if i hook it up two the two chanel it works fine do i need 2 ohm subs?

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hi can i connect 4ohm & 8 ohm speakers together to my yamaha emx 5000 powered mixer output is 500w+500w the speakers are 4 ohm 400w each & 8 ohm 400w each or would i have to buy an extra amp thanks my email

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When you put two 4 ohm speakers together in parallel you are making a 2 ohm speaker load. (If they are dual voice coil speakers then it is a one ohm speaker load.) And when you then bridge the two output channels together, then your 2 ohm load will act as a ONE (1) ohm load to each channel since they both share the load. This is not a good thing for an amp that is most happy with a four ohm load. It will fry your amp. You are lucky if it is only blowing fuses. Or else you have already blown the amp and now it doesn't matter what the speaker load is. Try turning the amp on with NO speaker attached and if it still blows fuses then you have a amp in need of repair. Good luck.

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Are you sure you can put a 2 ohm load on this amp? Thats almost a complete short.

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Pace posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 01:08 GMT Your subs are dual 4 ohm voice coils so if you want to bridge your 2 channel amplifier to your two subs then wire them parallel, meaning the + to + and - to - ( Do this to both subwoofers), Then run a wire from one positive and one negative on each sub and bring the two positives together and the two negatives together and hook both positives to the far positive connection on your amp and connect both negatives to the other negative on your amp,

This will create a 4 ohm load on your amp.

Although if it's a two channel and you have two subs it's usually pointless to bridge them because if you use one channel per subwoofer its going to be the same as if both subs were bridged. example) 800 watts x 1 bridged power of your amplifie (4 ohms) is the same power as 400 watts x 2 at 2 ohms.

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you have to understand impedance to do this. how many ohm are your 12,s`? you can run all 4 subs in mono off one amp if wired right. it works like this, lets say all 4 of your speakers are 4 ohms. if you wire 2 4 ohm speakers in a series it looks like one 8 ohm speaker to the amp. if you wire them in parallel the amp sees it as 2 ohms, ps most amps cant handle less than 2 ohms in sereo 4 in mono bridge. so no if you take one pair say the tens run them in series now take the 12 run them in series. now take and parallel both sets to amp and you have a 4 ohm load. to better understand do a google search for series parallel circuits. also you amp should be marked for bridging if not look up the amp on the manufacturers web site most will let you download the owners manual for free if in doubt about your amps ability keep it at or above 4 ohms

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Both - on 1 subwoofer to - terminal on amplifier bridged channel 1

Both + on 1 subwoofer to + terminal on amplifier bridged channel 2
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