Parallel Single Subwoofer Wiring Diagram
Series wiring and parallel wiring.
Parallel single subwoofer wiring diagram. How to wire a single subwoofer in either series or parallel. These terms refer to two ways of routing the speaker wires to your subs to properly manage the overall impedance load. Below are the available wiring diagrams for the speaker configuration you selected. There are two basic wiring options.
They show a typical single channel wiring scheme. Determine what amplifier to use with your subwoofer system. Subwoofer wiring wizard two 4 ohm single voice coil svc speakers. A dvc speaker has two voice coils each with its own set of terminals.
Fear not though for we have compiled wiring diagrams of several configurations for single voice coil svc drivers. Stable at 2 or 1 ohm mono. Select your woofer quantity and woofer impedance to see available wiring configurations. The results will display the correct subwoofer wiring diagram and impedance load to help find a compatible amplifier.
A dual voice coil on the other hand gives you multiple wiring options. Well actually speakers are bridged at the amp not in the box. It sounds like you have one of those boxes. A svc speaker has one voice coil and one set of terminals one positive and one negative.
4 ohm mono is equivalent to 2 ohm stereo. Single voice coil svc wiring tutorial with multi driver sub systems the level of wiring complexity can be enough to turn off even the most adventurous of car audio do it yourselfers. Two dual voice coil speakers in parallel parallel. Connecting the voice coils of each driver in parallel to to and the drivers themselves in parallel to etc will result in the following impedances.
Two dvc drivers with voice coils in parallel parallel. 5 20 single voice coil subwoofer wiring 5 27 svc parallel wiring 5 34 svc parallel wiring multiple subwoofers 5 37 svc series wiring 5 50 svc series wiring multiple subwoofers 6 08 calculating. The following diagrams are the most popular wiring configurations. Check the amplifier s owners manual for minimum impedance the amplifier will handle before hooking up the speakers.
Option 1 parallel 2 ohm load speakers wired in parallel recommended amplifier. Yes some boxes were made to run 2 subwoofers in parallel for a 4 2 or 1 ohm load to the amp. This subwoofer wiring application includes diagrams for single voice coil svc and dual voice coil dvc speakers. The biggest difference is that there is one wiring option for a single voice coil.
For this example i am using a dvc subwoofer.