Ohms Question

[95lincdog]

I have 2 4ohm DVC subs, wired to 2 ohms each, if I connect both subs separately into the one channel monoblock amp, will that get me 1 ohm? Or do I need connect the subs together and one sub to amp?

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[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

if there is 4 slots with 2 positives and 2 negatives, each sub pos/neg can have its own terminal after wired parallel

 

[95lincdog]

if there is 4 slots with 2 positives and 2 negatives, each sub pos/neg can have its own terminal after wired parallel

There's 2 slots. One pos and one neg. I'm trying to get 1 ohm

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

There's 2 slots. One pos and one neg. I'm trying to get 1 ohm

 

[95lincdog]

Thanks. That's the pic I just went off of to wire just now. My meter read the end of the subs wires together at 3.1 ohms is why I asked on here. Should it be one ohm of I wired like I explained? I think my meters off

 

[big scott]

if your wired like that then something is not right if your reading 3.1 ohm.

check each sub to see what it reads, maybe a bad coil.

 

[95lincdog]

It's reading each coil at 7.5 ohms

 

[brian84corvette 10+ year member]

It's reading each coil at 7.5 ohms

touch the leads of your meter together. what does it say. every cheap meter ive had has a resistance thru it - the red junk one i have now from ace hardware reads .6 ohms load thru just touching the probes to eachother - so since i know the meters resistance - i can then touch a 4 ohm speaker and see a readout of 4.6 ohm and kno that the meter is adding its own resistance to that result

this phenomina was causing me grief when i was trying to wire my six 18s to .66 ohm load at the amp - but my meter kept giving me 1.2 to 1.4 ohms load at the amp fluctuating cause six subs is hard to get a constant read from cause six coils in the gap always fluctuate - but my meter was adding .6 to the result - i couldnt figure out why at the time and kept going back and checking my subs to make shure they were all dual 2 ohm coils.