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Amp and Sub wiring help!

Postby MINTFX » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:57 pm

Hey, I just bought a Rockford Fosgate P3001 Mono Amp. Being a mono amp I would've thought it would only have two holes (or whatever they're called) for the + and - speaker wire. The amp has 4 or them (2 + and 2 - ofcourse). Now my problem is which two do I put the wires in for the sub (Im just using a crappy 1200w Sony for the moment). Im currently running a 2 Channel Fusion amp bridged. So I had a read through the manual and it has a 2 speaker (im guessing for another model of amp) and a 1 speaker diagram. The 1 speaker diagram is as follows:
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Is this the correct way to do it or should I hook it up on the two outer holes? Sorry if this sounds stupid I don't wanna go blowing things up. Cheers!
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Postby Erkel » Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:34 pm

Use the holes on the outer, that way there is less chance of the wires coming into contact with each other and shorting out the amp.

ie + on the far left and - on the far right. The connectors are connected internally, there is just 2 sets to make wiring up multiple subs easier.
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Postby MINTFX » Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:21 am

But this is a Mono amp so I thought you could only hook up one sub?
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Postby DeeCee » Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:33 am

you can run a couple of subs off the amp as long as the resistance load is correct.

By looking at the specs below we can see that the rockford is 4 and 2 ohm loadable. if you have a sub and its a single voice coil 4ohm, then the amplifier will see the 4 ohm load. If you had 2 single voice coil subs then and you wired in series then the loading would be 2 ohms. If wired in series you would see 8 ohms.

If i had 4 8 ohm subwoofers - i could hook them all up to the 300/1 because the amplifier would still be seeing 2ohms.

http://www.rockfordfosgate.com/products ... Amplifiers

Check this site for learning how to correctly wire and load your subwoofers:
http://www.jlaudio.com/tutorials/wiring/index.html
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