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Old Nov 21, 2005 | 07:00 AM
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I'm looking at buying an 1800 watt MA Audio mono amp with two 12 inch MA Audio subs.
At 1 ohm the amp is capable of 1200 watts, so that wil work fine for me as I don't really want to push the subs to their absolute extreme anyway. The subs are dual 4 ohm. I found this diagram as to how I would hook them up.
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Do I have two wires comming off of the amp and have one go to the first sub then the other go to the secind or just one wire? And is its just one wire how do I split off and go to both subs? Also when connecting the coils together do I just run a piece of wire between them and then connect the wire from the amp to one of them?

Sorry for the most likely stupid question, but I wasn't sure exactly how this would work.
I appreciate any help that you can give me.
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Old Nov 21, 2005 | 12:52 PM
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Default Re: sub wiring help (rollin92)

For a 1 ohm load, wire exactly like the first wiring diagram. 94
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Old Nov 21, 2005 | 01:49 PM
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I understand that, but what I'm asking is how do I split off of the one positive wire and go to both subs? Or do I run two wires from the same spot on the amp?
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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 12:33 PM
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OIC, with a parallel hook up it does not matter you can run one set of wires, [a pos. + and neg. -] to the first speaker and then just "daisy chain" another set to the other speaker, or you could run 2 sets of wires from the amp, 1 set to each speaker, for that matter you could run 4 sets of wires from the amp, [1 set for each VC, just as long as all the pos. + end up on the amps pos. + term. and the neg. - are on the amps neg. - term., IMO "daisy chaining" is the best way, make all the VC connections inside the box, that way you only need one speaker term. on the sub box, if the box already has 2 speaker term. it may be easier to connect one sub to each term. and run a set of leads from each term. to the amp. [on some subs it can be difficult to "daisy chain" because of the type of term. used on the sub. 94
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