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Whats the ohm load if you wire eight dual four ohms drivers? I know four of them ran "series/parallel" is 2ohm load. Would that mean adding four more in the same wiring configuration make it a final load of 4ohms?

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Four or one.

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Whats the ohm load if you wire eight dual four ohms drivers? I know four of them ran "series/parallel" is 2ohm load. Would that mean adding four more in the same wiring configuration make it a final load of 4ohms?

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Whats the ohm load if you wire eight dual four ohms drivers? I know four of them ran "series/parallel" is 2ohm load. Would that mean adding four more in the same wiring configuration make it a final load of 4ohms?

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Four or one.

For sure? Not a solid answer

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(series/parallel) on the first 4 then wire the sets of 4 together in parallel getting you to a final load of 2 ohms. Or run them all parallel for a total of .5 ohms.

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Four wired is 2ohms would it be 4ohms if you added four more doubling the load previously?

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Im looking for a four ohm load thats the sweet spot.

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Im looking for a four ohm load thats the sweet spot.

Voice coils wired in parallel, speakers wired in series and then the pair of 4 wired in parallel for a final 4 ohm load

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Im looking for a four ohm load thats the sweet spot.

Voice coils wired in parallel, speakers wired in series and then the pair of 4 wired in parallel for a final 4 ohm load

How would that look? The same as series parallel

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Wire the next 4 like you have the first 4. Then wire the 2 sets of 4 in series .... so take the negative from one set of 4 subs and connect it to the positive of the other set of 4 then wire the remaining Negative and positive to the amp

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Im looking for a four ohm load thats the sweet spot.

Voice coils wired in parallel, speakers wired in series and then the pair of 4 wired in parallel for a final 4 ohm load

How would that look? The same as series parallel

 

4_4ohm_dvc_8ohm.gif

 

4_4ohm_dvc_8ohm.gif

 

 

It would look exactly like that 2 sets of 4 wired in parallel (black to black red to red) of the end of the chain.

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Four or one.

For sure? Not a solid answer

He is saying it could be either one. Depending on how you wire them

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Yuck i cant wire it in that configuration.

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Four or one.

For sure? Not a solid answer
He is saying it could be either one. Depending on how you wire them

Yup yup :)

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Im looking for a four ohm load thats the sweet spot.

Voice coils wired in parallel, speakers wired in series and then the pair of 4 wired in parallel for a final 4 ohm load
How would that look? The same as series parallel

4_4ohm_dvc_8ohm.gif

4_4ohm_dvc_8ohm.gif

It would look exactly like that 2 sets of 4 wired in parallel (black to black red to red) of the end of the chain.

This is the only way to wire eight of them (two pairs of four) wired in a 4ohm independence? Edited by Dictator

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Ok, i'm going to word this as easy as i can as it's very easy the way it's laid out already, i'm going to attempt to "dumb it down".

 

Take ALL 8 subs and series them INDEPENDENTLY

 

Now you have 8 single 8 ohm subs.

 

Now, take each sub and series them ALL together down the line.. 

 

When you are done doing that, you will have 4 16 ohm subs left.

 

Now, take the remaining 4 subs' pos and neg and parallel them all together.

 

This will drop it down to 4 ohms.

Each pair of 16 ohm wires in parallel is 8 ohms.  The final paralleling of 2 8ohm wires is 4ohms.

 

 

Attempt to keep speaker wire during this entire wire configuration at the exact length for all subs as possible.

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I just got shizzoned!! Thanks

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I just got shizzoned!! Thanks

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Sigh

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I thought shizzoned added a nice finishing touch. Bro has mad skilletz!

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