Subwoofer wiring help.............

[kickinassrt-10]

I have a JL 10" w3 dual 2ohm voice coil and I want to know how to wire it to run off the factory amp and the connectors for the factory sub....How would I wire the sub to put out the proper ohm and how would I connect to the factory amp....I had the sub now wired with one wire running neg on 1 voice coil and pos on the other....I then made an adapter that plugged into both green wires on the factory sub connector and into one positive on the sub and did the same with both black wires into the neg side....I powered on and it sounded like it was blown (i'm assuming since it was not wired to the proper ohm of the amp is way too weak to power this sub) any help:dontknow: :dontknow: :dontknow: :dontknow:

 

[dragon]

be careful you may burn your amp up if you run this sub at 2ohms. im sure this factory amp will not run the 2ohms you want to push. if you really want to run this sub i would think about a totaly diffrent amp one that will handle 2ohms.

wiring is hard to explain in text but there is a way to run your 2ohm as a 4 ohm. i still think this is to low for the amp but gl.

 

[Stingray]

I'm a little confused by the colors you mentioned for the factory wiring. The schematics show one voice coil used a (-)gray w/white and a (+)dark green w/white. The other coil uses (-)gray w/brown and (+)dark green w/brown.

From your description it sounds like you did some interesting bridging. Take out the one wire you added to both voice coils and wire them separately. But I agree with dragon that 2ohms is probably too low for the amp. You can try it but the amp is going to get hot and possibly damaged.

dragon - are you talking about bridging the amp and running the subs in series to get the 4ohm load? Like the gray w/brown to the (+) of one coil and the dark green w/white to the (-) of the other coil. Then running one wire from the other coil posts to each other. The amp may not like that either.

 

[dragon]

dragon - are you talking about bridging the amp and running the subs in series to get the 4ohm load? Like the gray w/brown to the (+) of one coil and the dark green w/white to the (-) of the other coil. Then running one wire from the other coil posts to each other. The amp may not like that either.

yes that is was i was talking about running the sub as a 4 ohm but i agree it still may be to low for this oem amp.