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Can you please tell me the right way I should wire 2 left 4ohm &2 right 4ohm speakers to my lightning audio b4.250.2 amp, thank you

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I looked up the specs for the amplifier

  • 4 ohms: 85 watts x 2 channels
  • 2 ohms: 125 watts x 2 channels
So it will take 2 ohm speaker loads, therefore you can parallel 2 speakers together, that is to say connect 2 speakers to the + and - terminals of the left channel and 2 to the right.
4 ohms paralleled with 4 ohms = 2 ohms
So you are OK

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Aug 29, 2007

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With two 4 ohm svc subs and a 4ch amp the best way to hook it up is as you have described. There is no way of wiring it to get a lower ohm with your set up.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Apr 26, 2008

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If the speaker is a 4 ohm DVC (two 4 ohm coils), you can't wire it to get a single 4 ohm load. Try connecting one coil to each of the two rear channels. It may not be as loud but the amp should operate without going into protection.

If the two 4 ohm coils are in parallel, the amp is driving a 2 ohm mono load. That's probably why it's shutting down.

Josh Murphy

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  • Posted on Dec 10, 2008

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You have dual 4-ohm coils. 2 coils per speaker.using one speaker, if you take and run the postive from one coil and connect it to the negative of the other coil, then take a wire from your bridge channel on your amp and connect the positive to the the remaining positive on the one coil and connect the negative to the remaining negative on the other coil you will create a 8ohm load on the amp in bridged mode.

now this is the important part. The bigger the load on the amp the greater the wattage output to the speakers. This sucks the wattage out of the amp. Careful not to overload you amp. The setup above is safe for any amp. The following is for 2ohm stable amps only. The lower the ohm value 2, 4, 8 and so on, the greater the load on the amp.

connect the positive of one coil to the positive of the other. connect the negative of one coil to the other negative of the other coil. then take a wire from your bridge channel on your amp and connect the positive to the the positive on one coil and connect the negative to the negative on the same coil and you will create a 2ohm load on the amp in bridged mode.

Series = add the two ohm value
parallel= halve the ohm value

you can play with series and parallel together using more than one speaker setup.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jul 12, 2009

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Hello gonenutz14,

It depends on how you define the "best way". Driving each sub with a separate 750 watt amp will result in about 50 percent more power than having them share the output from a single 1000 watt amp. But with 2 amps, there's more wiring issues to contend with and the adjustments are more complex. The 2 750 watt amps will cost more than a single 1000. Plus if the 1000 watt amp is stable to 1 ohm, the power difference will actually be less than 50 percent because of the lower impedance. But if the 750 watt amps are also stable to 1 ohm and their outputs can be combined, we're back to 2 being better than 1.

I'd say that the simplest, most economical way is to use a single amp. If maximum power to the subs is the highest priority, and cost and wiring is not an issue, then 2 is better.

Hope this helps.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 13, 2010

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bi-wiring requires the removal of the copper jumpers between the hi and low speaker terminals. you can use two wire pairs twisted together at amp out connections and the four separate ends at each speaker, but the quality of sound will not be as good as buying quality bi-wire cables. But a pair of quality single set of wires at each speaker would be fine, but put jumpers back on and attach to the top terminals, they are designed that way. bi-wiring does allow the crossover to put out a little better sound. Hooking up four sets of wires to the a and b speaker terminals sounds bad. i have had alot of trouble with my rti10's and learned the hard way that it is best to pay more for wires with quality terminations.

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To the Same with the Right Side speakers - on the FRONT Right channel of the amplifier.

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And using the BRIDGED nomenclature on the REAR channels of your amplifier - wire up your 4ohm sub mono.

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