2 4ohm subs to mono for 2ohm load?

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I'm having a brain fart or something because i'm lost. A friend of mine got my amp(kicker 1000.1) he wants 1000 watts out of it so it needs to be ran at 2ohm. He has 2 dvc 4ohm subs. I've been seeing people saying it can't be done and it can but the sites like crutchfield show on their displays it can't be done. Like this....

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That pic looks like its run in parallel and thats what people said yes to that it can be run down to a 2ohm load with 2 4ohm subs, but seems crutchfield and other sites say it can only be 4ohm. So can it be done or do i have to tell him to go get one single 4ohm dvc sub to run it at 2ohms. Thanks for the help.

 
Cannot be done.. will wire to a 1 ohm load mono, each of em to 2 ohms on their own channels, or 4 ohm load together.. or an 8 ohm load from each but that would be pointless in most cases..

Andrew

 
Also.. when people say 2 4 ohm subs.. if they are SINGLE voice coils, and are 4 ohms a piece.. yes it can be done.. but what you are saying is your are DUAL voice coil 4 ohm woofers..

 
Yeah i don't want him to run it on 1ohm because it isn't 1ohm stable. So the most he could get out of them is on 8ohm on series? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wow.gif.23d729408e9177caa2a0ed6a2ba6588e.gif. I better tell him to sell the subs and get the kicker l7 dvc 4ohm so he can run that series to 2ohm. I think thats right..no?

Er, by looking at that pic he can get 4ohms with 2 subs running parallel. I must be to tired.

 
ok, i was getting parallel and series mixed up. Now i'll try to remember parallel is with posi's and neg's hooked together.

 
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