great info! I was into car audio in 90's. I ran four 15" subs in their own ported boxes and ran them series/parallel to get a 4 ohm load and powered the fosgate subs with 2 fosgate power 250 M's bridged together to give me over 1,200 w at a 4 ohm load. I hit 147.3 dbs once and thought that was great for 1996. Wanting to get back into it so i'm checking youtube.
Yeah... just too bad they fuked up on the diagram for the water/electricity analogy right before that though... 0:55 ✗ *Voltage = Pressure* ✓ Current = Flow ✗ *Resistance = Pipe Size*
Negative, rethink what you just wrote. Its the very reason municipalities use high voltage on long runs and use transformers to lower the voltage in an effort to reduce wire costs. You trade one for the other. Think commercial distributed audio.
Negative twice, high voltage lines over distance definitely has an advantage and reason, but that has nothing to do with the water analogy in question (which is wrong). Long travels have high voltage so a low current flows to deliver the power (P=IV), low V trying to supply a small town would require ridiculously high current which would melt the wires. You raise V to lower I while delivering the same power, drastically increasing efficiency as well as its not possible at low values of V. Nice way to dance around a question with a random, unrelated comment. V is the pressure, i.e. the driving force, that pushes charges along a conductor. The very definition of Voltage relates it to an electric field, which is a vector FORCE exerted on charged species; in this case negatively charged electrons. If V is a force, moreover the driving force, then how can it be represented by the pipe size? The driving force of water is pressure obviously, which relates to electric driving force defined as voltage. Pipe size only exhibits a resistive force, it resists flow. The very words "resists flow" in the description says it all: pipe size relates to resistors. Lastly, if pressure related to resistance then explain this. What happens to flow when pressure decreases? The flow also decreases. If a force is reduced then the body being driven by the force slows and also decreases. What happens to current when resistance decreases? It INCREASES current by decreasing resistance; thus R cannot be the pressure. By definition, resistance opposes movement, not causes it. Thats like saying applying more brakes in your car (increasing "resistance" related as driving force "pressure") will increase speed (flow); brakes are the car system's resistance, so if resistance is analogous to the pressure driving the system then increasing brake would increase speed. Bottom line, electric R is nano-scale friction, where the flow of electrons are inhibited by colliding with atoms and repulsive forces pushing them away from desired direction of flow, causing energy loss as heat. Friction/resistance in no way can be represented by pressure; one causes energy loss and resists work and movement where the other stores energy and causes work or movement.
I knew how to wire up an amp and subs and everything, only thing i didnt know was how to wire up a head unit. Now after seeing this, i might accidentally switch my power and ground with each other
@@Qualitymobilevideo ok. My system is bumping HARD! However I am using a 2000 watt NEMESIS amp and the stupid thing gets hot after 20--30 min of loud bassing and it turns off.........talk about losing an erection. Ah ha guess I need a better quality amp. Looks like. Any recommendations?
Get a cooling fan. I bought a specific amp that ran in mono, pullimg all 800 watts. The amp had a special circuit that ran cool and would shut off if the temperature spiked. It was shutting off all the time. Went to radio shack and bought a couple of 12dc computer fans, built little fixtures for them to attach to the amp, and presto, no more shut downs. If your amp does not have that cooking circuitry, you will end up, over some small spance of time, burn up your amp. Man, you could hear my one 8in dual voice coil from down the street. People thought I had a couple of 12s in there. I miss that life. Now I drive a 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan and I wouldn't know how to get into that dashboard to install the wires and harness adapters.
This is a very detailed explanation but confusing for people. Its way more simple to just double the ohm in series wiring and cut the ohms in half in parallel wiring
I took electrical 101 & 102 in college. This is right on. I'm just a little slow. LOL. I do appreciate the videos. Electricity is fascinating to me. I know I'm a nerd. LOL.🤣😂🤣😂
For calculating the impedance in parallel you don´t need that formula, just divide each speaker´s impedance by the number of speakers, so if we have 4 speakers each at 8 ohms, just divide 8/4= 2
Sebastián Díaz that’s exactly what I’ve always done! If I wire two 4 ohm dvc subs in parallel I get an1ohm load. It always get me why this confuses some people so much you just gotta take a little time and thoughtfully plan out a system
u can say the exact same things much simpler but i guess you do it so people click on your site, also bulbs in series.... if 1 blows up ALL will shut off not only after the bulb that blew up
Can't believe I missed that, but you're absolutely right. In an already extremely confusing video for beginners, the animation there and his explanation was highly inaccurate.
They way he was talking I was waiting for him to grab a ruler and give us a pop quiz. At the end I felt my IQ drop..This guy is smart and nowadays thats a RARE QUALITY in young adults..GOOD JOB BUB 💥💥💯💯🤟🤟
For anyone who comes across this video today. He made things WAY more complicated than necessary. For series wiring your final ohm load is (ohm of the voice coil) x (# of voice coils) For parallel wiring your final ohm load is (ohm of the voice coil) ÷ (# of voice coils) For example, you have 2 DVC 4-ohm subs. That's 2 subs with 2 coils each, and each coil is 4-ohm. So series would be 4-ohm x 4 VCs = 16-ohm And for parallel it'd be 4-ohm ÷ 4 VCs = 1-ohm For Series/Parallel which he commented on for just a second, it's a "little" more complicated but you just calculate the series connections first and then treat each series connection as a single voice coil of it's calculated impedance and calculate the parallel connections ohms based on that. I'm not great at explaining things, but hopefully that makes sense. So 2 DVC 4-ohm subs, both voice coils on each sub are wired in series and then the subs are wired parallel to each other. So you calculate the total impedance of each sub separately (2 4-ohm VCs wired in series so 4-ohm x 2 VCs = 8-ohm). Then imagine each sub as a SVC 8-ohm sub and think if you wired them in parallel (8-ohm ÷ 2 VCs = 4-ohm). So 2 DVC 4-ohm subs wired in Series/Parallel would come out to 4-ohm at the amp.
if you wire resistors in parallel they divide. to get a little more specific, if you have 2 resistors of the same value in parallel total ohms will be 1/2 of the resistor value. to simplify, 10 over 2 = 5 so two 10 ohm resistors in parallel will be 5ohms of total resistance, the same is true with voice coils only the values you are working with are more along the lines of 2 / 4 / 8 so 2 speakers with a single 4 ohm voice coil in parallel will be 2 ohms of total impedance. again 4 over 2 = two in this case 4 being the ohms 2 being the number of speakers. hope this clears it up a bit, little buddy may have gotten a little carried away although his info was 100 percent spot on. Good video
i watched this whole video, it made me feel stupid. i went to a more reliable source to get smarter again, the electronics section of my automotive technology text book. for a text book, it made a hell of a lot more sense then this video. i even had to rewatch the wiring diagrams he used to make sure they were correct.
I may be so dumb to this very topic but when I was born I was born with excellence truly excellence and so were you remember this for the rest of your life
I come back to this video every so Often now that I know how to wire subs , and all I have to say is you made this a lot more confusing than it had to be
He really did. Moved way too fast for people who don't know Ohm's Law at all. I just graduated with a BS in electrical engineering and was a supplemental instruction leader for Physics - Electromagnetism and Waves, which I aced as a student. I also do all my own car stereo work. Even with all that, I was barely able to follow it.
There are simpler ways you could have explained this, you didn't necessarily explain it wrong, but there are going to be people out there who aren't as experienced as some of us, and might get very confused.
Also, for people who don't understand, at 4:25, you label them as A+, A-, and B+ and B-. On an amplifier, most of the time, the power (that goes from the battery (or the alternator, for higher end systems) terminal is labeled as B+ and for people who don't really have any experience, I can see people wiring up their pos+ on their battery to the "B+" you stated on the terminal on the speaker... would have been better off labeling them 1 and 2
Take notes people. @1:07, this is the perfect way to impress your professor and make him/her spit out their drink while grading your paper, when the question asks to give an example of of Ohm’s Law.
Also when you strap amps the impedance( ohms) are brought down which provides more bass. My sub is currently wired to .5 ohms which is kind of risky but I love it on my two Orion 12's.
Hey thank for the helpful video, but one question i got two 6.75 dual voice coil and a kicker CX360.4 how do i wiring my sub into my amp. Do i wiring bot sub in bridge or 1 on each chanel cause in your video it seam always plug in one chanel and I want wiring two coaxial 4omh speaker Thank you for the help.
Liked and subbed ! You really did it up for a brother ! I watched the video a couple times to understand better and sure enough it definitely clicked 😂 thanks bud keep it up 👍🏽✌🏽
in other words: parallel wiring = less ohms (more power out of amp, but stable if within amp specs), and series wiring = more ohms (less power out of amp, but more stable)
@@VictorEstrada Yes mostly. There is another factor to consider however, that is the damping rating of the amp. Good luck finding it, as nobody rates them that way now. It is a measurement of how stable the output on the amplifier is with varying load, (which all speakers do vary in impedance with frequency, the enclosure type and size, and even temperature!). Anyway, speakers in series also have the general ability to effect each other more than speakers in parallel. So, unless the speakers are installed exactly the same, with no differences in external influences, the speakers wired in parallel will more closely match each other in motion and sound than those wired in series. And an amplifier with a higher damping factor will also be better able to prevent excessive cone excursions at higher power.
@_ David _ if (and if not the setup is rather odd) all the coils are the same impedance then you can simply divide by the number of coils. 4x 4 Ohm coils in parallel makes 4/4 = 1 Ohm final load
You did series wiring when showing parallel at 4:41. You have the positive wire going to B+ when you had just showed it going to A+ with the single speaker.
in one day I have the pleasure to hire these young man I can clearly see he likes electronics and he loves numbers any somewhere in my company there is a need for that I would want to have these young men in my company
We learned Ohms law in school, it's a very simple formula.. You dont have to be a rocket scientist to wire a speaker.. Great video dude.. Keep up the good work..
You could also use this equation to parallel wiring, I think It's a bit easier. ((r1^-1)+(r2^-1)+(r3^-1)+..ect.)^-1 so your example would be: ((R1^-1)+(R2^-1))^-1 = ((4^-1)+(4^-1))^-1 = 2 ohm's
Thank you for this video, helped me wrap my head around how I'm going to have to wire my subs to make them hit right. Probably going to do the "big 3" wiring upgrade too, not going to be very fun(audi b5, v6)
it is slightly more complicated then that. if you have two speakers, it might be that simple but add another speaker there at 4ohm now you have 4+4+4=12 12\3 is still 4. check my other comment for specifics
Just wait your gonna wish you didnt have to worry about paying $500+ a month to own the car and another $125+ (which is great for a 25 yo) for full coverage insurance. Your gonna regret it getting old.
Capacitors are worthless and can damage your amp. If you need one get an h/o alternator and/or second battery. Let's say you have a long bass note like in EDM music. The first second will most likely drain your caps "load" but your battery cant fill it fast enough as you amplifier is asking for. Therefore cause under voltage and possibly damaging amp. Caps are worthless...they're a gimmick. Also big 3 upgrade is good idea 👌
love how this guy made calculating resistance sound so difficult....... people for parallel say we got 2 4ohms speakers, 1/2ohms + 1/2ohms= 1/4 then up turn the fraction and it gives u 4/1= 4ohms thatss itttttttt
?? How would it work and sound if you took a good 12" home speaker and cut it in 1/2 removing the tweeter and mid range stuff and just left the big speaker end of it, then covered the "CUT" end area back over and hooked an amp to it??
I don't like to stress my amps with low impedance loads . 4 ohm / channel is lowest . Running 8 ohm whenever possible . Keeps my amps cool and sounding great without stressing and over heating them . I wired my 2x10 subs at 8 ohm : 2x 4ohm in (series) instead of 2x4 ohm parallel at 2 ohms . Running my 600W Kenwood sub amp in bridge mode , pushing sub box at 8 ohms = cool , loud , clean and happy amp . Plenty of no stress tight bass .
this was beautiful to read because everyone i know just overpower subs by a lot at 1 ohm and thinking it be rocking just because it works. so i’m thinking higher ohms pushing exact power instead of overpowering. i’m thinking about getting 2 12’ 4ohm dual coil subs bc it’s able to wire to 1 ohm 2 ohm and also 4 ohm. 2500rms so i wanna get a 2ohm 5500 watt amp wire down to 4 ohms at 3600 watts. it should be a wayyyyy different type of bass
I have 2 10" Rockford p2 4ohm speaker and Rockford r2-750x1 amp what is the best way to wire the speakers to the amp? Series or parallel? And what is the best ohm to have at the amp?
At 7:12 can we go a little deeper and could you explain why the parallel formula is what it is? Why exactly do they differ, other than the obvious reason they are different types of wiring
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Hey, man great video. I have dual subs and for some reason, my subs work but play very low and I know I have the right amp and have it wired as single-coil parallel wiring. I was wondering if you have any suggestions on what it could be, I saw some things about the subs being out of phase but I'm not sure how true this is or how I would fix it. Anyways any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
A/B class amps in particular have this problem. Does the output to the subs sound rather flat dynamically ? Kinda tinny? Like no bottom to it? Try this.. Unhook one.. leave the other one hooked positive from speaker to the positive output of the amp and same with the negative.. now turn it on at a reason able volume.. bout 35% or so.. Now as its playin take your other speaker Leads and try it both ways.. first try connecting positive to positive side of amp like the other one. If it does not double the loudness and thickness of the bass,, then reverse the polarity.. only do this by hand.. touch the leads to the terminals. Dont actually screw them to it till you find out which way is correct. Some amps require this one sub positive polarity one sub reverse polarity.. usually its only class A or class A/B amps . But even some class D amps do .. hope that helps ya ....
I have a receiver with the capability to run 4 speakers and I only have one speaker in the car. Old Bronco. Can I combine speaker wires to get more power to one speaker?
it depends of your amplifier. for example i'm buying 10" 1500Wrms subwoofer with 2x1ohm voice coils and an amplifier that is 3050Wrms at 1 ohm (im buying other subwoofer later) the amplifier specs tell me that its 1550Wrms at 2 ohm load -> i connect my voicecoils to series to get 1+1=2ohm and now my amplifier isnt overloading my woofer. but if i bought 3000wrms subwoofer with 2x2ohm voicecoils with same amp, I would connect voicecoils parallel to get 1ohm impendance and match it with my amps 3050Wrms at 1ohm (2x1 ohm voicecoils wouldn't work because i only could put it parallel to get 0.5ohm and overload, or put it to series and get 2ohm and not have enough power.) So basically you need to look at your voicecoils and wattage and then match it with an amplifier.
It's a telling sign when there's a D in the part name that it's DVC, and the fact that there are two pairs of negative and positive terminals, mean they're most likely DVC
what? if you hook a positive to a negative, you tend to get a short circuit. if you have a speaker with two voice coils, and you hook a wire on one positive and run that wire to the negative of the opposite coil, (the coils are usually separated by the positive and negative of one coil being next to each other on opposite sides of the maganet.), this is starting to hook them up in series. you would then take two other wires and hook one wire to the empty positive terminal and the second wire to the empty negative terminal and hook those up accordingly at the amp. this increases the total resistance of the speaker.
great info! I was into car audio in 90's. I ran four 15" subs in their own ported boxes and ran them series/parallel to get a 4 ohm load and powered the fosgate subs with 2 fosgate power 250 M's bridged together to give me over 1,200 w at a 4 ohm load. I hit 147.3 dbs once and thought that was great for 1996. Wanting to get back into it so i'm checking youtube.
Lol. That would be a st8 banger back in the day. But todays standards........
What about wiring them vertically instead of parallel?
Considering that's just two subs, that's still damn good, even today.
@@lloydhudson6463 "four 15" subs" but yeah it was the loudest stereo in my town at the time
Good video. You ought to also mention how series or parallel connection impacts the total power handling capability which also impacts amp selection.
Pretty sure that's the first time I've heard Ohm's Law equated to getting drunk, lol!
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Obviously he was drunk when he made the water diagram.
Can anybody tell me how i should wire multiple DVC subs to a Two channel Pro Audio amp?
I enjoyed the comparison of Ohm's law to drinking!!!
Lol thanks!
Yeah... just too bad they fuked up on the diagram for the water/electricity analogy right before that though... 0:55
✗ *Voltage = Pressure*
✓ Current = Flow
✗ *Resistance = Pipe Size*
Negative, rethink what you just wrote. Its the very reason municipalities use high voltage on long runs and use transformers to lower the voltage in an effort to reduce wire costs. You trade one for the other. Think commercial distributed audio.
Negative twice, high voltage lines over distance definitely has an advantage and reason, but that has nothing to do with the water analogy in question (which is wrong). Long travels have high voltage so a low current flows to deliver the power (P=IV), low V trying to supply a small town would require ridiculously high current which would melt the wires. You raise V to lower I while delivering the same power, drastically increasing efficiency as well as its not possible at low values of V. Nice way to dance around a question with a random, unrelated comment.
V is the pressure, i.e. the driving force, that pushes charges along a conductor. The very definition of Voltage relates it to an electric field, which is a vector FORCE exerted on charged species; in this case negatively charged electrons. If V is a force, moreover the driving force, then how can it be represented by the pipe size? The driving force of water is pressure obviously, which relates to electric driving force defined as voltage. Pipe size only exhibits a resistive force, it resists flow. The very words "resists flow" in the description says it all: pipe size relates to resistors.
Lastly, if pressure related to resistance then explain this. What happens to flow when pressure decreases? The flow also decreases. If a force is reduced then the body being driven by the force slows and also decreases. What happens to current when resistance decreases? It INCREASES current by decreasing resistance; thus R cannot be the pressure. By definition, resistance opposes movement, not causes it. Thats like saying applying more brakes in your car (increasing "resistance" related as driving force "pressure") will increase speed (flow); brakes are the car system's resistance, so if resistance is analogous to the pressure driving the system then increasing brake would increase speed.
Bottom line, electric R is nano-scale friction, where the flow of electrons are inhibited by colliding with atoms and repulsive forces pushing them away from desired direction of flow, causing energy loss as heat. Friction/resistance in no way can be represented by pressure; one causes energy loss and resists work and movement where the other stores energy and causes work or movement.
Can anybody tell me how i should wire multiple DVC subs to a Two channel Pro Audio amp?
I think I know less now than I did before I watched this video.
True.....hahahahaa.😂😂😂
Lmfaoooooo
Bro, for real, alot of it was technical and a few parts were overcomplicated. That said, I did learn alot and am very grateful for this video.
@@drkool8168True, I got the general got it too but he definitely pit a lot of technical detail into it 😆😆
I knew how to wire up an amp and subs and everything, only thing i didnt know was how to wire up a head unit. Now after seeing this, i might accidentally switch my power and ground with each other
Yes I am connecting my woofers today. Your video answered my questions. I have dual voice coil 4 ohm. I am going with parellel
Bump it.
@@Qualitymobilevideo ok. My system is bumping HARD! However I am using a 2000 watt NEMESIS amp and the stupid thing gets hot after 20--30 min of loud bassing and it turns off.........talk about losing an erection. Ah ha guess I need a better quality amp. Looks like. Any recommendations?
Get a cooling fan. I bought a specific amp that ran in mono, pullimg all 800 watts. The amp had a special circuit that ran cool and would shut off if the temperature spiked. It was shutting off all the time. Went to radio shack and bought a couple of 12dc computer fans, built little fixtures for them to attach to the amp, and presto, no more shut downs. If your amp does not have that cooking circuitry, you will end up, over some small spance of time, burn up your amp. Man, you could hear my one 8in dual voice coil from down the street. People thought I had a couple of 12s in there. I miss that life. Now I drive a 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan and I wouldn't know how to get into that dashboard to install the wires and harness adapters.
The wizard was all I needed, thank you!
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Hahahaha 😂 me too
Thank you although I feel so slow at this point no worries I'll watch until I am able to re-tune my system 🤣💯✊🏾😇 very awesome video
This is a very detailed explanation but confusing for people. Its way more simple to just double the ohm in series wiring and cut the ohms in half in parallel wiring
I took electrical 101 & 102 in college. This is right on. I'm just a little slow. LOL. I do appreciate the videos. Electricity is fascinating to me. I know I'm a nerd. LOL.🤣😂🤣😂
Right on!
For calculating the impedance in parallel you don´t need that formula, just divide each speaker´s impedance by the number of speakers, so if we have 4 speakers each at 8 ohms, just divide 8/4= 2
Sebastián Díaz that’s exactly what I’ve always done! If I wire two 4 ohm dvc subs in parallel I get an1ohm load. It always get me why this confuses some people so much you just gotta take a little time and thoughtfully plan out a system
Yup, over complicating impedance is the reason why most people don’t learn how to wire subs.
@@coltonnewman8283 wouldn't that be 2?
@@jenn1022 yeah.. but thats 2 ohms per sub. Then ya parallel the 2 -2 ohm sub loads for a 1 ohm load.
@@tobiasmenough He say he paralleled (2) 4 ohm speakers. 4÷2=2. That's a 2 ohm load. What turns it into 1?
learning this in my physics class now, subwoofers are way more interesting though haha
After viewing this video, I had to subscribe. Nice vid bro, get down to the point with no BS
Thanks bro!
3 years ago and still saving lives😂
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very good when it will pick up at all.good
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u can say the exact same things much simpler but i guess you do it so people click on your site, also bulbs in series.... if 1 blows up ALL will shut off not only after the bulb that blew up
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Can't believe I missed that, but you're absolutely right. In an already extremely confusing video for beginners, the animation there and his explanation was highly inaccurate.
They way he was talking I was waiting for him to grab a ruler and give us a pop quiz. At the end I felt my IQ drop..This guy is smart and nowadays thats a RARE QUALITY in young adults..GOOD JOB BUB 💥💥💯💯🤟🤟
Thanks Dale! It's a lot easier than people think!
We clicked on this video for info......... after this video I'm overloaded
For anyone who comes across this video today. He made things WAY more complicated than necessary.
For series wiring your final ohm load is (ohm of the voice coil) x (# of voice coils)
For parallel wiring your final ohm load is (ohm of the voice coil) ÷ (# of voice coils)
For example, you have 2 DVC 4-ohm subs. That's 2 subs with 2 coils each, and each coil is 4-ohm.
So series would be 4-ohm x 4 VCs = 16-ohm
And for parallel it'd be 4-ohm ÷ 4 VCs = 1-ohm
For Series/Parallel which he commented on for just a second, it's a "little" more complicated but you just calculate the series connections first and then treat each series connection as a single voice coil of it's calculated impedance and calculate the parallel connections ohms based on that. I'm not great at explaining things, but hopefully that makes sense.
So 2 DVC 4-ohm subs, both voice coils on each sub are wired in series and then the subs are wired parallel to each other. So you calculate the total impedance of each sub separately (2 4-ohm VCs wired in series so 4-ohm x 2 VCs = 8-ohm). Then imagine each sub as a SVC 8-ohm sub and think if you wired them in parallel (8-ohm ÷ 2 VCs = 4-ohm). So 2 DVC 4-ohm subs wired in Series/Parallel would come out to 4-ohm at the amp.
if you wire resistors in parallel they divide. to get a little more specific, if you have 2 resistors of the same value in parallel total ohms will be 1/2 of the resistor value. to simplify, 10 over 2 = 5 so two 10 ohm resistors in parallel will be 5ohms of total resistance, the same is true with voice coils only the values you are working with are more along the lines of 2 / 4 / 8 so 2 speakers with a single 4 ohm voice coil in parallel will be 2 ohms of total impedance. again 4 over 2 = two in this case 4 being the ohms 2 being the number of speakers. hope this clears it up a bit, little buddy may have gotten a little carried away although his info was 100 percent spot on. Good video
Love when people can't help but criticize on a personal level for no reason. I'm above average height for an American male thank you very much.
My head is hurting.. and I just subscribed just now.
You're now my online class teacher!
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Can anybody tell me how i should wire multiple DVC subs to a Two channel Pro Audio amp?
Some of you didn't watch this whole video, and it shows....
i watched this whole video, it made me feel stupid. i went to a more reliable source to get smarter again, the electronics section of my automotive technology text book. for a text book, it made a hell of a lot more sense then this video. i even had to rewatch the wiring diagrams he used to make sure they were correct.
Hi, A little help please. what would be the best subs to get the most rms power out of my MTX D81000 amplifier?
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Your water analogy is flawed. Voltage::pressure
Impedance::restriction in the line
Amperage::flow through the line
RustyCarnahan Yes. And thank you. Was wondering if anyone else caught that
I noticed this too, these are very good well explained videos but you're right. Voltage is pressure.
Electricity flows like water the path of least resistance. So a Water analogy is correct just not his lmao!
Yup
Well, amps measure current so that makes sense
I may be so dumb to this very topic but when I was born I was born with excellence truly excellence and so were you remember this for the rest of your life
Splitz Fiftyfifty How can that be, if you were born in the image of your father (Satan)? And he is NOT excellence! Far from it!
I come back to this video every so Often now that I know how to wire subs , and all I have to say is you made this a lot more confusing than it had to be
He really did. Moved way too fast for people who don't know Ohm's Law at all. I just graduated with a BS in electrical engineering and was a supplemental instruction leader for Physics - Electromagnetism and Waves, which I aced as a student. I also do all my own car stereo work. Even with all that, I was barely able to follow it.
DVC Takes Multiple Subwoofers Connections To Another Level 😃😀
There are simpler ways you could have explained this, you didn't necessarily explain it wrong, but there are going to be people out there who aren't as experienced as some of us, and might get very confused.
This is the most confusing way of teaching this topic!.....but very precise and specific
Resistence in series increases and decrease in parallel
Also, for people who don't understand, at 4:25, you label them as A+, A-, and B+ and B-. On an amplifier, most of the time, the power (that goes from the battery (or the alternator, for higher end systems) terminal is labeled as B+ and for people who don't really have any experience, I can see people wiring up their pos+ on their battery to the "B+" you stated on the terminal on the speaker... would have been better off labeling them 1 and 2
Take notes people. @1:07, this is the perfect way to impress your professor and make him/her spit out their drink while grading your paper, when the question asks to give an example of of Ohm’s Law.
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Also when you strap amps the impedance( ohms) are brought down which provides more bass. My sub is currently wired to .5 ohms which is kind of risky but I love it on my two Orion 12's.
Hey thank for the helpful video, but one question i got two 6.75 dual voice coil and a kicker CX360.4 how do i wiring my sub into my amp. Do i wiring bot sub in bridge or 1 on each chanel cause in your video it seam always plug in one chanel and I want wiring two coaxial 4omh speaker Thank you for the help.
What impedance are your 6.75 subs?
4 ohm
I started to get sleepy when the math problems started lol
Sleepy?
You stayed around that long? I couldn't do it.
Liked and subbed ! You really did it up for a brother ! I watched the video a couple times to understand better and sure enough it definitely clicked 😂 thanks bud keep it up 👍🏽✌🏽
Thanks Ray!!
you lost me with the equations
in other words: parallel wiring = less ohms (more power out of amp, but stable if within amp specs), and series wiring = more ohms (less power out of amp, but more stable)
@@VictorEstrada Yes mostly. There is another factor to consider however, that is the damping rating of the amp. Good luck finding it, as nobody rates them that way now. It is a measurement of how stable the output on the amplifier is with varying load, (which all speakers do vary in impedance with frequency, the enclosure type and size, and even temperature!). Anyway, speakers in series also have the general ability to effect each other more than speakers in parallel. So, unless the speakers are installed exactly the same, with no differences in external influences, the speakers wired in parallel will more closely match each other in motion and sound than those wired in series. And an amplifier with a higher damping factor will also be better able to prevent excessive cone excursions at higher power.
@_ David _ if (and if not the setup is rather odd) all the coils are the same impedance then you can simply divide by the number of coils.
4x 4 Ohm coils in parallel makes 4/4 = 1 Ohm final load
I have 2 8ohm speakers, that would total 16 ohms in series correct?
@@charlesd.morgan362 yes - series is calculated by simple addition.
Very cool. But what is the formula when using a series parallel wiring?
And they told me there would be no math installing my subwoofer!
HA!
Rob St.Helen lmao
Lol
Rob St.Helen News flash: there is math in everything you do, even pooping.
there is no math if you just use a multi meter and have a basic understanding of wiring speakers.
Breaks it down nicely. I appreciate the graphic work
Took many hours lol
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔😑😑😑😑😴😴😴😴 . Hope there's no quiz.
My head is burning.. Thanks for the video.
You're welcome!
Good video. Very informative
You did series wiring when showing parallel at 4:41. You have the positive wire going to B+ when you had just showed it going to A+ with the single speaker.
@1:6 He uses a nice example on alcohol ....LOL. its an appropriate example too. vomiting is example of power out....double lol
Lol
in one day I have the pleasure to hire these young man I can clearly see he likes electronics and he loves numbers any somewhere in my company there is a need for that I would want to have these young men in my company
I feel like we can make this into a drinking game!
When using active powered subs at home how do perform series/parallel wiring with high level outputs
When using active you cannot, the amp is in the sub, regardless of home or car.
Quality videos man. Big help
We learned Ohms law in school, it's a very simple formula..
You dont have to be a rocket scientist to wire a speaker..
Great video dude..
Keep up the good work..
Cool, thanks!
Those overfocused on power/watts should not neglect how important RMS is, plus the need for headroom to avoid clipping.
My subs finally sound right thankyou clipping gone an all due to knowing how to wire in series thankyou so much
Awesome! Glad we could help
You could also use this equation to parallel wiring, I think It's a bit easier.
((r1^-1)+(r2^-1)+(r3^-1)+..ect.)^-1
so your example would be:
((R1^-1)+(R2^-1))^-1 = ((4^-1)+(4^-1))^-1 = 2 ohm's
Emil Hammer this is the reciprical formula
(R1xR2):(R1+R2) is the best one
Thank you for this video, helped me wrap my head around how I'm going to have to wire my subs to make them hit right. Probably going to do the "big 3" wiring upgrade too, not going to be very fun(audi b5, v6)
Omg thank u so much i switched to parallel and my kicker comp vr are booming with a ssl evo 1000 watt amp with a pc power supply. IM ONLY 13 years old
can you do a video for mids and highs? it seems like nobody does a video for this one
series you add parallel you divide by 2 on total value. 😄
Unless you have more than 2 in parallel... then you keep adding to the division
it is slightly more complicated then that. if you have two speakers, it might be that simple but add another speaker there at 4ohm now you have 4+4+4=12 12\3 is still 4. check my other comment for specifics
dude.... make more videos. youre not boring and that's effective
3-4 a week brothaaa
why am i watching this im only 13😂🤷🏾♂️ i really cant wait till i get older and buy my own car and stuff🙃hurry up time🙃
Just wait your gonna wish you didnt have to worry about paying $500+ a month to own the car and another $125+ (which is great for a 25 yo) for full coverage insurance. Your gonna regret it getting old.
Great video and content.. did anybody notice he sounded like R2D2 there for a minute..
I sounded like a robot that doesn't speak english? lol
He's making this over complicated so u go to his shop. And pay him to hook up 2 dvc12s to amp and a capacitor 🤣
He is it's better whatch ones that show u hands on this dude just speed thru it
Capacitors are worthless and can damage your amp. If you need one get an h/o alternator and/or second battery. Let's say you have a long bass note like in EDM music. The first second will most likely drain your caps "load" but your battery cant fill it fast enough as you amplifier is asking for. Therefore cause under voltage and possibly damaging amp. Caps are worthless...they're a gimmick. Also big 3 upgrade is good idea 👌
FAT TONY KAUAI Haun What does a capacitor have to do with this?
@@timoromeo7663 he's saying he's gonna hook you up with a cheap simple system
very well edited!
Thanks!
He said load
love how this guy made calculating resistance sound so difficult....... people for parallel say we got 2 4ohms speakers, 1/2ohms + 1/2ohms= 1/4 then up turn the fraction and it gives u 4/1= 4ohms thatss itttttttt
My head hurts now
He complicated the fuck out of audio so badly
mine did to, so i pulled out my automotive text book to clear myself up
great presentation, this is the best explanation in all the videos i have seen, please keep them coming.
Thanks, will do!
You clearly dont know what a how to is...
Its like theory vs experience - the one explains how its done and the other show how its done...
Quick question
What's better
2 JL audio 12TW1-2 shallow subs (2ohm subs) running on a JL audio JX 500/1
Or
2 JL audio 12TW1-4 shallow subs (4ohm subs)
Running on same amp??
2ohm louder
I thought Viagra fixed Impedance...... what, what?!
Jonny Cage. Thanks for all your help
LMFAO
You F*****G welcome. HAHAHAhahaHA
Got 1cozmilk15 2 coils Andy need it to be 6 omh how do I wire it
Great video helped me on my project 👍
Very helpful and I was able to resolve my wiring issue 👊
?? How would it work and sound if you took a good 12" home speaker and cut it in 1/2 removing the tweeter and mid range stuff and just left the big speaker end of it, then covered the "CUT" end area back over and hooked an amp to it??
Omes law was Day 1 of electrical class and the teacher also used the water pipe and a water tower example
Wow 🤯 good explanation
Glad you think so!
At 4:00 in series wiring if one bulb blew they would all stop. In parallel however only that load would stop but the others would still be powered.
I don't like to stress my amps with low impedance loads . 4 ohm / channel is lowest . Running 8 ohm whenever possible . Keeps my amps cool and sounding great without stressing and over heating them . I wired my 2x10 subs at 8 ohm : 2x 4ohm in (series) instead of 2x4 ohm parallel at 2 ohms . Running my 600W Kenwood sub amp in bridge mode , pushing sub box at 8 ohms = cool , loud , clean and happy amp . Plenty of no stress tight bass .
this was beautiful to read because everyone i know just overpower subs by a lot at 1 ohm and thinking it be rocking just because it works. so i’m thinking higher ohms pushing exact power instead of overpowering. i’m thinking about getting 2 12’ 4ohm dual coil subs bc it’s able to wire to 1 ohm 2 ohm and also 4 ohm. 2500rms so i wanna get a 2ohm 5500 watt amp wire down to 4 ohms at 3600 watts. it should be a wayyyyy different type of bass
What about a triple coil sub like the 12 Infinity kappa 120.9 it's got a built-in SSI.
Haven't tried one of those.
I have 2 10" Rockford p2 4ohm speaker and Rockford r2-750x1 amp what is the best way to wire the speakers to the amp? Series or parallel? And what is the best ohm to have at the amp?
Hi i have two subwoofer total 800rns i used mono black 1200rms at 1ohms its good combination thanks
Impossible to tell. Are the subs DVC or SVC. Are they 2 ohm or 4 ohm. Are they 800W RMS each or combined?
Quality Mobile Video this combined 2 sub DVC 400rms each
So with the series wiring, should I be using a negative wire to connect sub a to sub b? I have the single coil
Great explanation bro👍🏻
Thanks!
How can you connect both and keep a 4ohm load ?
So if you have 3 subs at 3ohms impedance what do you run it at the amp 1, 2, or 4 ohms.
So I’ve got 2 4 ohm dual voice coil speakers if I wired them in parallel what would my final impedance be?
It will be 1 ohm! We actually have a video on this: ruclips.net/video/fyyEDnv-T7o/видео.html
Quality Mobile Video if I series parallel wire then my final impedance should be 4 correct ?
At 7:12 can we go a little deeper and could you explain why the parallel formula is what it is? Why exactly do they differ, other than the obvious reason they are different types of wiring
So parallel wiring offers lower impedance possibilities, like 1 ohm, which means more power, but also less efficiency
This is what I call brilliant. Hey you are AWESOME
Thank you so much 😀
Thanks guy/s very helpful !
Glad it was useful to you!
Greetings, I want to install pioneer sea-835 tab in kia sorento sx 14 is the most complete integration system should I use to maintain the functions of the guide and navigation ???
About to wire three DVC 2 ohm. I don’t want to get lower than one ohm. I hope series/ parallel will get me there.
Good vid. I didn’t know any of this.
Hey, man great video. I have dual subs and for some reason, my subs work but play very low and I know I have the right amp and have it wired as single-coil parallel wiring. I was wondering if you have any suggestions on what it could be, I saw some things about the subs being out of phase but I'm not sure how true this is or how I would fix it. Anyways any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
A/B class amps in particular have this problem.
Does the output to the subs sound rather flat dynamically ? Kinda tinny? Like no bottom to it?
Try this..
Unhook one.. leave the other one hooked positive from speaker to the positive output of the amp and same with the negative.. now turn it on at a reason able volume.. bout 35% or so..
Now as its playin take your other speaker Leads and try it both ways.. first try connecting positive to positive side of amp like the other one. If it does not double the loudness and thickness of the bass,, then reverse the polarity.. only do this by hand.. touch the leads to the terminals. Dont actually screw them to it till you find out which way is correct. Some amps require this one sub positive polarity one sub reverse polarity.. usually its only class A or class A/B amps . But even some class D amps do
.. hope that helps ya ....
Great "Alcohol Analogy" Haha. Creative way to explain ohms law. Thanks Brother!
Glad it helped!! 🤘🍻🍻🍻
I have a receiver with the capability to run 4 speakers and I only have one speaker in the car. Old Bronco.
Can I combine speaker wires to get more power to one speaker?
Any issues if mixing single and dual voice sub's in a box?
I। have kicker comp d 15" dvc. So tell me that wether it should be wired in series or parallel to get good base?
it depends of your amplifier. for example i'm buying 10" 1500Wrms subwoofer with 2x1ohm voice coils and an amplifier that is 3050Wrms at 1 ohm (im buying other subwoofer later)
the amplifier specs tell me that its 1550Wrms at 2 ohm load -> i connect my voicecoils to series to get 1+1=2ohm and now my amplifier isnt overloading my woofer.
but if i bought 3000wrms subwoofer with 2x2ohm voicecoils with same amp, I would connect voicecoils parallel to get 1ohm impendance and match it with my amps 3050Wrms at 1ohm (2x1 ohm voicecoils wouldn't work because i only could put it parallel to get 0.5ohm and overload, or put it to series and get 2ohm and not have enough power.)
So basically you need to look at your voicecoils and wattage and then match it with an amplifier.
Which is good parallel wiring or series wiring in single voice coil ?
I got 2 Rockford P2d210 (old school model) in 2 separate boxes running with an Alpine Pdx-M6, how should I wire them subs?
i have 2 skar vd12 i’m pretty sure it’s a single voice cool but it has 2 pairs of positive and negative hookups ?
It's a telling sign when there's a D in the part name that it's DVC, and the fact that there are two pairs of negative and positive terminals, mean they're most likely DVC
Quality Mobile Video ok cool. thanks for the help
What if one of the subs is a dual voice coil and one is a single voice coil? Because thats what i have. What is the optimal way to hook them up?
I laugh every time I watch this guy at half speed. Drink another! ;-)
LMFAO i'm gonna try that
I laughed so fuckin hard and then put it at .25 and almost pissed myself...LMAO
When you connect the wire to positive and negative which wire would it be? Positive or negative?
what? if you hook a positive to a negative, you tend to get a short circuit.
if you have a speaker with two voice coils, and you hook a wire on one positive and run that wire to the negative of the opposite coil, (the coils are usually separated by the positive and negative of one coil being next to each other on opposite sides of the maganet.), this is starting to hook them up in series. you would then take two other wires and hook one wire to the empty positive terminal and the second wire to the empty negative terminal and hook those up accordingly at the amp. this increases the total resistance of the speaker.
Christopher Wise never mind I know how to now :)