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TeamXtremeRSDec-18-01 11:09 AM
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Yep thats pretty much it for bridging. But ohms has a play in bridging also. So sometimes you have to be careful. It all depends on the amp's rated power, and the speaker's ohms. I'm assuming your pioneer amp is 300Wx2@ 4 ohm, and your DVC sub is 4 ohm each coil. Now you can bridge your amp to make that 600W into 1 single channel, but now the amp can only see a 2ohm load max. Any lower will damage it eventually. So lets say you wire you sub in parallel(each coil's pos and neg wired on top of eachother), now you have a 2 ohm load. YOU CAN'T wire this to the single bridged output of your amp, because now the amp is "seeing" a 1 ohm load! Many people don't realize this, but when you combine(bridge) two channels on any amplifier, the amp will now see HALF of the load put upon it! So if you think about it, with having a DVC sub(assuming 4 ohm coils anyway), you can only run the amp in stero(one of each channel to each coil). Now you could wire the sub in SERIES to get a total of 8 ohm, and then you could bridge the amp to the sub. You have a 8 ohm load, and the amp will see half of that which is 4 ohm total, totally safe for that amp. But either way you look at it, the sub will see the same amount of power regardless of running it stero to each coil, or bridging it to a series wired sub, because the amp won't put out 600 watts @ 4 ohm bridged, only at 2 ohm bridged. I hope this makes sense, but if not, let me know and maybe i can go into more detail..


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Amp Bridging Question [View all] , SunBlocker, Dec-18-01 02:14 AM
  RE: Amp Bridging Question, Moderatorsd_eclipse, Dec-18-01 02:46 AM, #1
RE: Amp Bridging Question, brynden29, Dec-18-01 03:01 AM, #2
      RE: Amp Bridging Question, SunBlocker, Dec-18-01 03:17 AM, #3
           RE: Amp Bridging Question, brynden29, Dec-18-01 03:33 AM, #4
                RE: Amp Bridging Question, SunBlocker, Dec-18-01 03:36 AM, #5
RE: Amp Bridging Question, TeamXtremeRS, Dec-18-01 11:09 AM #6
RE: Amp Bridging Question, SunBlocker, Dec-18-01 05:05 PM, #7
      RE: Amp Bridging Question, mkerley, Dec-19-01 01:09 AM, #8
           RE: Amp Bridging Question, SunBlocker, Dec-19-01 01:54 AM, #9
                RE: Amp Bridging Question, TeamXtremeRS, Dec-19-01 11:19 AM, #10

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