Trouble with saying on ohms?

Question

I'm looking for an Audiobahn AW1508T subwoofer, and it runs 2000w RMS. I know it's good, I've heard it before. The question I have is that under its specifications it says 1 or 4 ohm capability. But it's a dual 2 ohm subwoofer, so I don't get it! A single subwoofer I'll be running, trying to go to 2 or 1 ohm, but not sure what it'll pump. Thanks.

Answer 1

Run the voice coils in series and it will be operating at 1 ohm. Connect speaker wires to each terminal on one voice coil, then run them over and hook them into the other voice coil and run a pair off of either side next to the wires you already hooked in to your source. If the amp is designed to run 1 ohm stable, it will sound good. On the other hand, you can run a pair of wires individually off of each voice coil to your source and be running at 4 ohms. Most amplifiers run at 4 ohm stable capacity, so you may want to try doing a parallel set up first to see how it runs. If you're satisfied, leave it be. If you're not, you can try to run them in series.

Answer 2

If you only have one dual voice coil 2 ohm sub you can run it in parallel fo a 1 ohm load or seies for a 4 ohm load. Ypu should get an amp that is one ohm stable for more power. But i think sometimes when you run it at 4 ohms it may sound a little better.

Answer 3

If you series the two coils, then you will get 4Ohms. That is 2 + 2. + from amp goes to + of coil, then the - from that coil goes to the + of the second coil, then the - of the second coil goes back to the amp.

If you parallel the coils you will get 1Ohm. 2 / 2. + from amp goes to + of both coils at same time, then - of amp goes to - of both coils at the same time.

It would be a 2Ohm load if you powered each coil independently, one coil powered by left channel, one coild powered by right channel.  

Answer 4

it is referring to the amount of ohms that the sub is running, that amp is only really great sounding for subs running either 1 ohm or 4 ohms.

sorry for any inconvenience

Answer 5

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