How Do I hook up a DVC sub?


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WOOOOOHOOO i just got my kicker 10" cvr in the mail today, and now I'm wondering, how do I hook a DVC sub to an amp?
 
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The sub has to be wired in parallel. If wired in series it will smoke your amp.

Put a jumper wire between the positive terminals, then another between the negative terminals.
Then run the speaker wires from your amp to one set of terminals. DONE

The wires from the amp should be bridged as well.

I use the exact same sub in my truck. It works really great. Only issue I have with mine is it keeps blowing my box apart, and it's the Kicker box that came with it.
 
UrbanRedneckKid said:
The wires from the amp should be bridged as well.
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So what your saying is to bridge the amp? on a mono amp? this does not make sense to me.

I can help you with the box! try re-gluing whe wood back together with liquid nails. it worked great when I built a box with a friend.
 
a-5 freak said:
So what your saying is to bridge the amp? on a mono amp? this does not make sense to me.

I can help you with the box! try re-gluing whe wood back together with liquid nails. it worked great when I built a box with a friend.
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Well not on a mono sub amp, I am using a 2 channel amp.

I've reglued and nailed my box twice now. And at the moment it's blown apart again. It's just a pos and I've accepted that. I'm not worried I'm buildin a new box inside my new center console. Which will finally let my p.s. seat go back all the way too.
 
just match ohm loads, if your amp is stable at 2ohms, run parallel if not, in series.
 
so a dual 4 ohm voice coil sub means 2 ohm impedence from the amp? I'm just making sure because this means that I will need a less powerful amp than the one i now have picked out. the amp I have picked out is this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...Category=18795&_trkparms=algo=LVI&its=I&otn=2

would this amp be good for this aplication? or should I go smaller?
The wattage on the sub is 400 watt rms.

EDIT: this means I now need a monoblock amp dosen't it?
 
a-5 freak said:
so a dual 4 ohm voice coil sub means 2 ohm impedence from the amp?
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If you hook it up in parallel. I've seen a few 2 channel amps that are happy in 'single mode'.

The amp is 500W x 1 @ 4 Ohm Bridged, however, what you'd want with a dual 4ohm in parallel is XXXW x 1 @ 2 Ohm Bridged. Basically it doesn't look like it's 2ohm mono stable. Don't know much about Phoenix Gold amps as far as sound or quality.

Pete
 
a-5 freak said:
so a dual 4 ohm voice coil sub means 2 ohm impedence from the amp? I'm just making sure because this means that I will need a less powerful amp than the one i now have picked out. the amp I have picked out is this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...Category=18795&_trkparms=algo=LVI&its=I&otn=2

would this amp be good for this aplication? or should I go smaller?
The wattage on the sub is 400 watt rms.

EDIT: this means I now need a monoblock amp dosen't it?
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yes dual 4's can be wired to 2 or 8 ohms, that amp would work well with a dual 2 ohm but not so well with a dual 4. You would ideally want a mono amp that puts out around 300-400 w rms at 2 ohms, Kicker kx/zx400.1 would work great in your application

you could use that amp and run 1 coil per channel, youd get 150w rms per coil, but you wouldnt get full power out of the amp unless you had a 2ohm load per channel or 4 ohm load with the amp bridged.
 
heres a good matching amp for you,

http://cgi.ebay.com/Kicker-ZX400-1-Mono-Amp_W0QQitemZ110383639251QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCar_Amplifiers?hash=item19b360aad3&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1234|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A1|294%3A50
 
Loud Ranger said:
yes dual 4's can be wired to 2 or 8 ohms, that amp would work well with a dual 2 ohm but not so well with a dual 4. You would ideally want a mono amp that puts out around 300-400 w rms at 2 ohms, Kicker kx/zx400.1 would work great in your application

you could use that amp and run 1 coil per channel, youd get 150w rms per coil, but you wouldnt get full power out of the amp unless you had a 2ohm load per channel or 4 ohm load with the amp bridged.
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The kicker is a bit much out of my budget range. I can go $110 max for the amp. So what amp, I guess, is the best for this sub?? I did alot of research on amps and I guess I was wrong for almost buying the phoenix gold.

THANKS GUY for saving me from a $110 flop! :yahoo::icon_cheers:
 
a-5 freak; question for you, as I can't see if you said it or not, but did you get the dual 4 ohm, or the dual 2 ohm crv? Because everyone seems to have assumed you got the dual 4 yet no one asked.
 
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