i'm going to be running two of these amplifiers in my system. what is the best way that i can bridge them so that i can them to a subwoofer.

Well, if you are hooking 2 amps to one sub, then you would want a dual voice coil subwoofer. Hook one amp to one side, and the other to the other coil. BUT, you have to make sure the signal into the amps is identical, and the settings match on each amp, so that each coil is seeing the same thing. Otherwise, the sub will be off balance, and you'd hurt it.

600-800 watts @ 2ohm isn't enough for 1 sub? I would assume that you have a DVC sub if you are wnating to run 2 amps...right?

yeah... actually it's two amps wired up to two audiobahn immortal 12's quad voice coil. but i need to wire them up so that i can wire them with a 1 ohm load from the amps. i've already contacted audiobahn and they say that 1 amp can be wired to two subs with a 1 ohm load where as one amp and one sub is either .5 ohm or 2 ohm. it's fairly confusing to me. i just need a way to make both amps to be bridged carrying a 1 ohm load to the subwoofers in what i believe audiobahn said was a parallel-series-parallel wiring diagram.

What coils do you have on your subs? Are they quad 1's or quad 2's?


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quad 2's... but the way audiobahn desribed it to me was that two quad 2 subwoofers wired in a parallel-series-parallel will be a one ohm on the subwoofer which would be pushing 1016 watts at 14.4v. i want to wire another amplifier with it so that each amp would be 1 ohm pushing 1016 watts to 2 subwoofers therefore a total of 2032 watts. if i'm not mistaken.

So you just want to run 1 amp to each sub?


If you just run the amp at 1 ohm to 1 sub it pushed 1000 watts (or so say the specs).

two amps pushing two subs....good idea.

two amps pushing one sub....not such a good idea


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Lash wrote:So you just want to run 1 amp to each sub?


If you just run the amp at 1 ohm to 1 sub it pushed 1000 watts (or so say the specs).

this is somewhat correct but wiring up 1 amp with one sub you can get .5 ohm, 2 ohm or 8 ohm. however if 1 amp is connected to two subs you can get a load of 1ohm or 8 ohms. is there any way i can bridge the power of them amps together? it is basically figured out to be one amp pushing one sub, but they way that 2 amps and 2 subs are wired together should make them perform better.

Unless the amps are strappable, which these aren't, you can't connect 2 amps like you're thinking. Orion and visonik both have strappable amps, I'm not sure of any other companies off-hand.


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what does strappable mean?