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Old 03-31-2009, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Father Yuli
homie, either your wiring job or your calculations were way off. you should have had a final load of 3.75 ohm. or maybe the 4 ohm sub had a bad coil. but there is no way you are supposed to get 2-2/3 ohm load with those coil configurations any way you wire them.
8 ohms in parallel with 4 ohms is 2.66 ohms.
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Old 03-31-2009, 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by kevmurray
8 ohms in parallel with 4 ohms is 2.66 ohms.
yah u are right, i retract my statement.
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Old 04-01-2009, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Father Yuli
homie, either your wiring job or your calculations were way off. you should have had a final load of 3.75 ohm. or maybe the 4 ohm sub had a bad coil. but there is no way you are supposed to get 2-2/3 ohm load with those coil configurations any way you wire them.
To get a 3.75 ohm load with a 4 ohm woofer, you would need to parallel that with a 60 ohm woofer . . . Here's a helpful formula I found for figuring that out:

Originally Posted by Father Yuli
lol freshy

you would get 1.333 ohm if you wired it that way.

the formula is,

1/[(1/ohm)+(1/ohm)]

so you'd get 1/[(1/4)+(1/2)] = 1/0.75 = 1.333

the way you'd wanna wire that is connecting all 3 coils together.
1/[1/4+1/8] = 1/0.375 = 2.66
1/[1/4+1/60] = 1/0.266 = 3.75
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Old 04-01-2009, 01:43 PM
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thanks for the formula, i've been looking all over the place
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Old 04-01-2009, 04:57 PM
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I have a better one for just 2 resistors in parallel.

(R1*R2) / (R1+R2)

Only works for 2 resistors though (or sub impedance)
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Originally Posted by Father Yuli
thanks for the formula, i've been looking all over the place
Is that the sarcas-o-meter I hear going off?.....
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Old 04-01-2009, 11:42 PM
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Is that the sarcas-o-meter I hear going off?.....
WE ARE IN THE RED!!!!!!

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Old 04-02-2009, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Father Yuli
WE ARE IN THE RED!!!!!!

That's big red to you, sonny.......
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lol, I'm in the Big Red? that just doesnt sound right.
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Originally Posted by Father Yuli
lol, I'm in the Big Red? that just doesnt sound right.
Maybe not, but it is f&%$#ing loud......
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