[mpcooper]

Hi all,

This is my first post so I hope you can help me...

To be fitted into a mini!!

I currently have a kicker solobaric L5 dual 2ohm 12inch sub (the black one)
And a kx 400.1 Amp, I am unsure of how to wire the sub to it to give the best bass, I dont want to blow anything up!!! Please can you help and tell me the best way, I have heard about all this ohm stuff but please explain.

Also I am looking at 2 10inch type R Alpine subs and an amp to run them both, will this give good bass along with the kicker?

Fitted into the car also are 4 kicker 6X9s, 2 kicker 5X7 components and 2 kicker door speakers. 2 6X9s are running off my alpine mrv f350 amp along with the 2 5X7s, the other 6X9s are to be powered from my alpine headunit
CDA-7893R

Sound ok?

Cheers
Mark

Are you talking about the speaker wire to the sub? Any wire will do,
assuming it's thick enough to be able to handle the amount of current that
it'll be passing. You can estimate the amount of current by simply
dividing the output power of the amplifier ("RMS") by the impedance of the
sub. Then go to a site like bcae1.com (I think that's it) and go to the
wire section. There you should find a table that tells you recommended
wire sizes for different currents.


On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, mpcooper wrote:


Hi all,

This is my first post so I hope you can help me...

To be fitted into a mini!!

I currently have a kicker solobaric L5 dual 2ohm 12inch sub (the black
one)
And a kx 400.1 Amp, I am unsure of how to wire the sub to it to give
the best bass, I dont want to blow anything up!!! Please can you help
and tell me the best way, I have heard about all this ohm stuff but
please explain.

Also I am looking at 2 10inch type R Alpine subs and an amp to run them
both, will this give good bass along with the kicker?

Fitted into the car also are 4 kicker 6X9s, 2 kicker 5X7 components and
2 kicker door speakers. 2 6X9s are running off my alpine mrv f350 amp
along with the 2 5X7s, the other 6X9s are to be powered from my alpine
headunit
CDA-7893R

Sound ok?

Cheers
Mark


--
mpcooper

[mpcooper]

No,

I know the speaker wire is fine,
I have a d class amp, It is a kicker amp and a kicker l5 sub dual 2 ohm voice coils, What i want to know is how to wire it to sound the best.

it has 4 terminals on the back of sub, 2 red terminals (1 with white dot) and 2 black terminals (1 with white dot) do you connect any of these together? I only have 2 terminals on the amp as its a d class amp.

Does that make more sense?

Cheers






Are you talking about the speaker wire to the sub? Any wire will do,
assuming it's thick enough to be able to handle the amount of current that
it'll be passing. You can estimate the amount of current by simply
dividing the output power of the amplifier ("RMS") by the impedance of the
sub. Then go to a site like bcae1.com (I think that's it) and go to the
wire section. There you should find a table that tells you recommended
wire sizes for different currents.

Which amp is it exactly? If it's a 1 ohm stable amp, then you can hook
the + from the amp to both + (red) terminals on the sub and the - from the
amp to both - (black) terminals on the sub. This is a parallel wiring.
Obviously, you'll need 4 wires to do this.

If the amp is only stable to 2 ohms, then your best bet is to go with a
serial wiring. Hook the + from the amp to one of the + terminals on the
sub; the - terminal from that coil to the OTHER + on the sub; the
remaining - terminal to the - terminal on the amp.

An alternative would be to hook just one coil to the amplifier and short
the other one, but that's probably not the ideal method for your
application.


On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, mpcooper wrote:


No,

I know the speaker wire is fine,
I have a d class amp, It is a kicker amp and a kicker l5 sub dual 2 ohm
voice coils, What i want to know is how to wire it to sound the best.

it has 4 terminals on the back of sub, 2 red terminals (1 with white
dot) and 2 black terminals (1 with white dot) do you connect any of
these together? I only have 2 terminals on the amp as its a d class
amp.

Does that make more sense?

Cheers






Are you talking about the speaker wire to the sub? Any wire will do,
assuming it's thick enough to be able to handle the amount of current
that
it'll be passing. You can estimate the amount of current by simply
dividing the output power of the amplifier ("RMS") by the impedance of
the
sub. Then go to a site like bcae1.com (I think that's it) and go to
the
wire section. There you should find a table that tells you
recommended
wire sizes for different currents.


--
mpcooper

[mpcooper]

Ahh i am with you. It is the kx600.1amp which is stable to 2ohms??

I take it then that the red and black with the dots on the sub are 1 coil and the plain red and black terminals the other coil.

so on the back of the sub it will look like this:


- red with dot black with dot ---------------- (to amp -)
i
(Joined together)
i
- plain black plain red --------------------- (to amp +)





[quote=MZ]Which amp is it exactly? If it's a 1 ohm stable amp, then you can hook
the + from the amp to both + (red) terminals on the sub and the - from the
amp to both - (black) terminals on the sub. This is a parallel wiring.
Obviously, you'll need 4 wires to do this.

If the amp is only stable to 2 ohms, then your best bet is to go with a
serial wiring. Hook the + from the amp to one of the + terminals on the
sub; the - terminal from that coil to the OTHER + on the sub; the
remaining - terminal to the - terminal on the amp.

An alternative would be to hook just one coil to the amplifier and short
the other one, but that's probably not the ideal method for your
application.