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Old 04-07-2009, 09:16 AM
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ohlms and voice coils

I have some one interested in my w3s but they want to know what ohlm s it is and dual voice coil or not? I don't remember so how can I tell?
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Old 04-07-2009, 12:14 PM
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This should answer your question....http://mobile.jlaudio.com/pdfs/12W3v2_MAN.pdf
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Originally Posted by smpl_gy
This should answer your question....http://mobile.jlaudio.com/pdfs/12W3v2_MAN.pdf
All that really tells him is they all seem to be dual coil. We now have to find out if they are dual 2,4,or 6 ohm coils. Do you have a DMM? You need to select ohms and put + to + and - to - and let us know what it says and we can tell from there. 2ohm coil will show 1.5 - 2.5ohms, let us know what you get.
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Old 04-07-2009, 04:13 PM
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2.6 2.3 2.1 are the three I got lol thanks for the help btw
That's assuming red to red black to black
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2.6 2.3 2.1 are the three I got lol thanks for the help btw
That's assuming red to red black to black
And its a w3V3.4
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Old 04-07-2009, 05:09 PM
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Where are you at? If you are close I could have a look and let you know for sure. Is there only one set of terminals per sub? 3 total +/- sounds like dual 4ohm coils wired parallel inside the box showing 2 ohms at the terminals.
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I'm located in niagara falls or near there yourself?
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Ahh Brampton.
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Old 04-08-2009, 12:20 AM
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Its two subs and I took the dmm and hooked it right up to the sub termanals and got three different readings ill do it again tmrw after work and well see what I get. The box only has one set of termanls tho
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If you have two subs, and you're getting a 2 ohm reading on the box terminal, then I'd have to say that you have Dual 2 ohm drivers. There's no way to get two 4 ohm DVC's down to two ohms, not by my math anyway. Everything in parallel would get you 1 ohm. The voicecoils in parallel, and the subs in series would give you four ohm, the voicecoils in series and the sub in parallel would get you 4 ohms, and everything in series would get you 16ohm.

You probably have w3v3.2.
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