Variable ohm wiring on a single amp possible????
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Variable ohm wiring on a single amp possible????
I have an Alpine MRV-F450 5/4/3 channel power amplifier. The power listings are in 4 ohm (50x4 RMS plus 200W RMS for the sub). My problem is that I noticed I paid for an Alpine Type R 10" sub and the store gave me an Alpine Type E. I just returned the wrong sub for the right sub and noticed the wiring to the sub is way different.
The type E was simple and you ended up with 4 ohm's if you wired it like a normal speaker. The Type R is a dual 4 Ohm voice coil speaker. It can be wired for 8 Ohm's or 2 Ohm's. Will it hurt my amp if I run my front and rear speakers wired as 4 Ohm and my sub wired as 2 Ohm?????
The type E was simple and you ended up with 4 ohm's if you wired it like a normal speaker. The Type R is a dual 4 Ohm voice coil speaker. It can be wired for 8 Ohm's or 2 Ohm's. Will it hurt my amp if I run my front and rear speakers wired as 4 Ohm and my sub wired as 2 Ohm?????
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Thanks for the help!!!!! Didn't want to fry a brand new amp!!!!! I knew the amp was stable to 2 Ohms, I just wasn't sure if running 4 Ohm on channels 1-4 (front-rear speakers) and 2 Ohm on channel 5 (subwoofer channel) was going to be ok.
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Those amps are really either two or three amp boards all in one casing. So, the front channels are pretty much separate from the sub channel, they just share a power source.
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