blackandgoldl69

ok so i have a 10 inch pioneer sub http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...Specifications and an eclipse amp like this one http://cgi.ebay.com/Eclipse-EA2212-C...d=p3286.c0.m14 i know i need a better amp but for the time being how should i hook up my sub so that it will sound best someone suggested bridgeing it what does this mean?

Brennan

bridging an amp is like taking your two channel and connecting them in series like positive of channel one to postive speaker, negative to positive on channel two, negative on channel two two negative on speaker

hellsatan

I got confused reading his answer so I stole one from another forum and it probably makes more sense then brennan's. sorry m8

OK to brige two subs you take both positives from both subs and put them togather then do the same with the negitives.

Then you take the pos and hook it to the up positive on one side of your amp....then take the neg and hook it up on the other side.

Most amps have instruction on what channel you should put you + and what channel to put you -.

Remember if you brige 2 4ohm subs this will drop your load to 2 ohms. In this case you will need an amp that is 2Ohm stable.

But if you are running 2 8ohm subs you can have a amp which is 4ohm stable.

TO figure this out you just divied the Independance (ex. 4ohms) by the number of subs you are using.

ex. 4 (independance) /2 (number of subs) = 2ohms

This is the same basicly for two or one amp btw

Brennan

lol english was my worst subject in high school but since your running a 2 channel amp and one sub with a single voice coil this is how i would wire it to get the most power

blackandgoldl69

thanks for the advice i will try that. What amp would you suggest to get the most out of my subs . if i were to buy another sub of the same kind

hellsatan

Brennan that is one awesome pic you posted up there.

mmm that amp should be fine your sub is rated at 120rms.. your amp is 150rms. Should be fine. Its not gonna pound or anything amazing.
10" in a sealed box with that much rms rating will sound decent. Good for rock and metal. Wouldn't pound the neighborhood with rap with that little thing.

I am thinking sealed since most ppl with 3rd gens cant put a ported in their cars.

Only one way to find out is to hook it up and test it out. Everybody likes different sound/bass preferences its all up to you. Buy the thicker wires like 4 gauge for power and ground and 10-14 gauge for the sub to amp wires just encase you want to upgrade later on to more power saves you time and effort down the road. That's my 2 cents hope it helps

Brennan

why thank you i stayed up all night drawing it

heres mine the ports are hard to see but there in between the two subs the box is smaller then it should be but it sounds great with the ports

snardos

I don't think you can wire the amp the way Brennan has it posted. I would think that the channel that has the positive wired to the negative of the other channel would be shorting out. But then again it is ac voltage coming out of the amp so I'm not sure the effect it would have. I've just never seen an amp wired that way before. The ad says it is bridgeable, so the + and - connections that are used to bridge should be marked in some way, and the sub is connected to these terminals and the other two are left not connected to anything.

kcidmil

LOL... that's ONE of many ways. What you're doing there is actually wiring the subs in what is called Parallel. It divides up the resistance among the subs and lowers it.

You can also wire in "Series". Where it adds onto the resistance. You mainly never even use this method unless you have a Dual Voice Coil sub. Where each voice coil has it's own resistance, usually 4 ohms.

You can even combine both methods, again something you see with Dual Voice Coil subs. Like someone who has 2 4 ohm DVC subs, and has only a 4 ohm stable amp. You'd wire the 2 voice coils in series to get 8 ohms, then wire both subs to the amp in parallel, to reduce down to 4 ohm.

But these above only come in to play if you have one DVC sub or 2 or more DVC and SVC subs.

For your one SVC sub, you have no option, but to wire it to the amp. I cannot see the specs on the amp right now to see if it can push the sub. I'm not sure if they're talking that the 150 RMS on the amp is @ 2ohm or 4ohm, which does make a difference as the 4 ohm RMS is less than 2 ohm, and your sub is SVC @4ohms..

Most amps today are marked with which terminals you use to "bridge" the amp. You'll use just the 2 terminals that are marked.

And oh BTW, if you think that info above is head turner... wait till you start playing with some of JL Audio's stuff. They tend to run some odd numbered resistance coils. 3 ohm and such. LOL

Brennan

hes right the wire connecting the two channels together dont belong i drew that last night when i was tired, it should be like this