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Jonathon Bracken Posted on Jul 10, 2019

I have 2' 2ohm 10" subs running a Alpine pdx1.1000 looking for best way to wire do I need another amp or wire as 4 ohm

  • Jonathon Bracken Jul 10, 2019

    To add they are duel voice coils from Fosgate prime

  • Jonathon Bracken Jul 10, 2019

    Thank you very much worked great

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I would think a 1000 watts would be enough for 2 10's.
You can hook up two dual voice coil subs a few different ways.
First thing I would check for is what ohmage your amp is rated for.
You don't want to push a lower ohmage than what your amp is rated to handle.
That is a good way to overheat & ultimately fry your amp.
After that, you can wire your subs accordingly.
If they are dual 2 ohm subwoofers, you can wire each of them as a 4 ohm load, 2 ohm load or even a 1 ohm load.
I would personally go by what the amp is ratted for.
Remember though, the lower you run the ohmage, the better base responce & harder the hit you will get.

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  • Posted on Dec 30, 2007

SOURCE: sub woofer wiring

If you have a 500a2 and two 4 ohm single voice coil speakers, you have only one option. Connect one speaker to each channel.

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SOURCE: 3 amps 2 subs sound system for car, need wiring help

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  • Posted on Mar 30, 2010

SOURCE: What is the best method to connect my speakings?

Wow, thats a really powerful amp! attached is a link to the user manual for the M2000 here. You want to follow example #4, this will wire you up for 4ohms total pumping out 1500W. Plenty of bang and bump as long as your airspace is correct! :) Also, make SURE you wire up that amp with 1/0 power cable and you can step it down to 2Ga. no more than 2.5' to the amp. The worst thing to do is under wire an amp. you will also want to upgrade your vehicle ground wire from the negative (-) battery terminal to the car chassis. I would go 1/0 with that new ground, you will drive up the impedance of your overall system if your ground is too small.
Hope this helps, -Remy

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  • Posted on Aug 25, 2011

SOURCE: jl1000/1 amp wiring to 4+4

From your information I am assuming that you have a sub that is dual 4ohm voice coils. Also, I am assuming that you have a single channel amplifier. This is easy to get to a 2 ohm load.

First, go from the positive of the amp to the positive of both voice coils. Then go from the negative of the amp to the negative of both voice coils. You should have two sets of wires running to your sub. This is called a parallel set up and decreases the ohms load of the voice coils to a singe 2 ohms If you have a prefab box, just do the same thing, but instead of the amp, you will be wiring to the cup terminal inside. The amp will be wired regular to the cup terminal on the outside with just one wire.

This is all assuming that you are hooking up only one sub. If you attempt to hook up 2 subs like this to a mono amp, you will drop the load to 1 ohm.

hope this helps

Robert Struzinski

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  • Posted on Apr 03, 2013

SOURCE: how to wire a crossfire vr602 2 channel amp at 4ohm and 2ohm

I would be more worried about the amp than the speakers, those subs should handle the watts with no problem. The problem will be in the amps ability to remain working with a bridged 2 ohm load. It may not even stay on without going into protect mode with a 2 ohm load. If it does stay on then it may get really hot and shut off from the heat off of the Mosfett Transistors, or it could burn the Mosfetts from driving them too hard. Basically it's your choice, run your amp hard and gain more volume or run it with slightly less sound and have a cleaner sounding more stable amp that will stay on and have less chance of being damaged. If it's not loud enough the best thing to do is buy a different amp that better suits your needs and fits the application. In your case a 2 ohm stable Mono amp is going to be your best bet or a 4 channel amp bridged into 2 channels and run with 4 ohms on each channel. Or another exact matching amp like your 2 channel amp bridge them both and have each powering 1 of your 4 ohm subs. I used two VR mono amps to power my two 12" 4 ohm subs for a few years

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I would be more worried about the amp than the speakers, those subs should handle the watts with no problem. The problem will be in the amps ability to remain working with a bridged 2 ohm load. It may not even stay on without going into protect mode with a 2 ohm load. If it does stay on then it may get really hot and shut off from the heat off of the Mosfett Transistors, or it could burn the Mosfetts from driving them too hard. Basically it's your choice, run your amp hard and gain more volume or run it with slightly less sound and have a cleaner sounding more stable amp that will stay on and have less chance of being damaged. If it's not loud enough the best thing to do is buy a different amp that better suits your needs and fits the application. In your case a 2 ohm stable Mono amp is going to be your best bet or a 4 channel amp bridged into 2 channels and run with 4 ohms on each channel. Or another exact matching amp like your 2 channel amp bridge them both and have each powering 1 of your 4 ohm subs. I used two VR mono amps to power my two 12" 4 ohm subs for a few years
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Hi there,

This really depends if your 10" subs are 4 ohms each or 2 ohm - for this exercise, I'm presuming they are 4 ohm each.

You already know your amp can deliver 600W RMS (@ 2ohm), so you need to be careful you do not exceed the maximum RMS input power of your subs.

Normally you would wire subs in "parallel", which would reduce the circuit load to 2ohms - however, the 600W RMS power may be too high for your subs to handle.

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