Wiring a Sub and Amp

you can look it up at crutchfield.com... they got a tutorial page in there...

got some extra time so i did look for it...

check this...

http://www.crutchfieldadvisor.com/S...ers_wiring.html

there are other links in there about amplifier installation that will surely help as it did to me...

good luck...

One of the amp. in that pictorial has a 2-channel only?

let me know how many subs you have, ohms and voice coils. The rms rating on each sub. The amp rms rating, how many channels, stable ohm rating and what brand. so I can tell you exactly how to wire them up.

okay here we go. first of all you want to make sure your amp have alteast 75% of what your sub's maximum rms (not peak). Then check your subs. if you see 2 pair of terminals, then it is a dual voice coil. usually there will be something written on it saying 4 ohm or 2 ohm and this is per voice coil (terminal). If you amp is 4 and 2 ohm stable which more amps are and depending on how many channels and subs you have will determine how you would wire them to get the most efficient power. here's an example you can follow since I don't have any specs for your amp and sub:

1 sub 4 ohm dual voice coil 50-400rms, 1 amp 2 channel rating at 200x2@4 ohms 350x1 bridge @ 4 ohms 400x1@ 2 ohms.

now here is the break down.

since you have 1 sub dual voice coils @ 4 ohms each. wiring them in series will produce 8 ohms. red to back on one side and black to red on the other. then both leads go to the terminal on the box (red to red black to black). now if you bridge this to your amp, the 8 ohms will be reduce to 4ohms thus giving you 350W which is good. now here's the tricky part. if you wire it in parallel. black to black, red to red then both goes to the box terminal it will reduce it to 2 ohms. now if you bridge this to your amp, your amp will see 1 ohm. As you can see this is a problem because the amp is not 1 ohm stable. it will run, but it might last a week and either the sub or amp will blow.

Do some research on your subs and amp before you hook them up so you won't run into problems later on.