Audiopipe APSM-1500 Protection for a few seconds?

[av83 10+ year member]

That will double the ohms from 1 to 2 right? Like it doubles 2 to 4 in that example you showed?
I don't have them wired like that, I have it wired like this, I'll draw a crappy paint drawing.

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Did you do this yet?

 

[Quick 10+ year member]

Did you do this yet?

No I'll have to tomorrow. Is that what it's going to do tho? Double it was 1 ohm to 2 ohms?

 

[SuperSaeYoung]

If your subs was Dual 1 Ohms, wiring the subs like that put your subs at 2 ohms, because it's in series.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

No I'll have to tomorrow. Is that what it's going to do tho? Double it was 1 ohm to 2 ohms?

Yes, this will add the two resistances 1+1=2

 

[av83 10+ year member]

No I'll have to tomorrow. Is that what it's going to do tho? Double it was 1 ohm to 2 ohms?

When you wire two voice coils with identical impedance, in parallel, it gives you a final impedance of half of one of the voice coils. Thats what you did. And you ended up with a .5 ohm load. You need to wire your voice coils in a series, which will give you a final impedance of twice that of one of your voice coils. I only know the basics, and there's certainly much more to it than that, but you get the idea.

 

[Quick 10+ year member]

When you wire two voice coils with identical impedance, in parallel, it gives you a final impedance of half of one of the voice coils. Thats what you did. And you ended up with a .5 ohm load. You need to wire your voice coils in a series, which will give you a final impedance of twice that of one of your voice coils. I only know the basics, and there's certainly much more to it than that, but you get the idea.

Alright so does it matter where I put the 2 wires coming out that will go into the amp? Can I put them in any negative and positive terminal?

 

[av83 10+ year member]

Yes it matters, lol. Do EXACTLY what the diagram says. Put a short wire leading from the + post of one voice coil to the - post on the other voice coil. This will leave you with one positive post and one negative post open on each voice coil.... hook them up to your amp accordingly. + to +, - to -. use good speaker wire for all of this....

 

[av83 10+ year member]

Alright so does it matter where I put the 2 wires coming out that will go into the amp? Can I put them in any negative and positive terminal?

just realized that you were talking about the fact that the apsm has 4 terminal screws. 2 + and 2 -... lol, my bad. no, that part doesn't matter, I just use the two that are farthest apart.

Edit: just make sure you're doing it right this time. double check to make sure everything is perfect before hooking it up.

 

[madcad95 10+ year member]

And make sure that they are different coils I seen 1 guy hook the + and - together on 1 coil and run the other + and - of the remaining coil to the amp and that was his idea of series lol.

 

[av83 10+ year member]

And make sure that they are different coils I seen 1 guy hook the + and - together on 1 coil and run the other + and - of the remaining coil to the amp and that was his idea of series lol.

Lol, I swear I did that about 11 years ago before I started dabbling in car audio. I had a alpine type-r and wanted to run it at 8 ohms off a 300 watt PA amp in a powered sub box off my home system. Ruined it in minutes.... Lmao

 

[av83 10+ year member]

[quote name='madcad95']And make sure that they are different coils I seen 1 guy hook the + and - together on 1 coil and run the other + and - of the remaining coil to the amp and that was his idea of series lol.[/QUOTE]

Make sure you don't do this @Quick...

 

[LBC]

Lol, I swear I did that about 11 years ago before I started dabbling in car audio. I had a alpine type-r and wanted to run it at 8 ohms off a 300 watt PA amp in a powered sub box off my home system. Ruined it in minutes.... Lmao

There were Alpine Type R's 11 years ago? I didn't realize they had been around that long.

 

[av83 10+ year member]

There were Alpine Type R's 11 years ago? I didn't realize they had been around that long.

Yep. Looked like this...

 

[KTMrida4life 10+ year member]

So much fail itt

Bro Im just going off what I know about my old sony HU. It had a bass level option that went from 0 to 10 (which you always wanted at 10) and then it had a second bass level that was actually a bass boost which could go up to 10 as well and it would clip the crap out of the system.

My bad. Someone else help the guy.

 

[Quick 10+ year member]

So like this?

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What will this make my amp put out? 1000watts @ 2 ohms?