I have an Alpine MRP-M350 amp and had an Alpine type-S sub until I blew it last week. The type S that I had was 2ohms, to match with the amp. I've got a friend who works at best buy who said he could hook me up with a type R for half off, but it's 4 ohms. Would it work with the amp that I have? How would i hook them up together?
Thanks.
Ok it depends im going to need more specs.. Your amp runs Stable at a max of 2 ohms at 350 watts (?RMS?? Not sure 200??) with 0.3 THD ....
Is that sub your getting a DUAL VOICE COIL (DVC) subwoofer?
If it is there is 2 ways of hooking it up..
You can hook the voice coils (1 posative and 1 negative terminal = 1 voice coil) up in paralell, POSATIVE terminal wired to the other POSATIVE terminal and the NEGATive terminal wired to the toher NEGATIVE terminal then hooking up One Posative to your amp and one negative to your amp... If i lost you check this out
Paralell Ex.
Posative------Posative----AMP-Posative
(This being a DVC sub)
Negative-----Negative-----AMP-Negative
Hooking a Dual 4 Ohm sub in paralell would reduce the ohms by half = 2 (Total load on your amp)
You can also hook it up in series. Series Is like a continous circut... First you must think of each voice coil in numbers (Voice coil 1 and voice coil 2) Take the posative from voice coil 1 and wire it the negative of voice coil 2, Once that is completed you will hook up your amp negative to voice coil 1 negative and amp posative to voice coil 2 posative.
I will not make an ex of this one..... Draw it on paper for your self to make sence...
If you have 2 DVC subs then you have 4 ways of hooking it up. (Maybe more but they dont work efficent.) But i wont explain that now cuz im going on break... Sned me the model of the subs or just let me know if it is a dvc and what ohm each voice coil is.
if that amp isnt gonna put out atleast 400rms dont bother youll blow the type r,there notorious forblow when underpowered b/c of the subs sensitivity
Premier Fyre14 wrote:if that amp isnt gonna put out atleast 400rms dont bother youll blow the type r,there notorious forblow when underpowered b/c of the subs sensitivity
Not if you tune the amp correctly.
-Chris
