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Tim
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8/10/2002
10:48:31

Subject: Will it work
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I have a 98 Dak CC with pioneer head unit and a pioneer GM 362 100watt amp, I plan on a stealth box with one eight inch. The problem is the speaker that comes in the box is a 3 ohm load dual voice coil two 6 ohm wired parallel. The amp directios say it must be a 4 to 8 ohm when its bridged. The amp is a 2 channel rated 100wats bridged. Could I keep the amp as a two channel and run one channel to one voice coil and the other channel to the second voice coil? This would give me 50 watts to each coil.



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8/10/2002
19:22:06

RE: Will it work
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hey,

Wiring one voice coil to each channel will put a 6 ohm load on each channel. Your amp is stable down to 2 ohms per channel (4 ohms mono). A 6 ohm load on each channel of the amp will give you about 15-20 watts per channel.

In my opinion, you should try bridging the amp at 3 ohms. It is one ohm lower than what it is safe into, but most quality amps will take a little lower. If it blows the fuse when you do this, don't try putting a bigger fuse in or anything. Either try the 6 ohm per channel setup, or get a different amplifier.

I am guessing it is a JL Audio 8" sub.



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