I just bought a kicker comp 07 in a vented box now it says the sub is a dvc and i bought the 4 ohm version how do i wire this to a amp and have it bridged at 4 ohms, Is this possible?

 

run it in series to go with an 8 ohm load or run parallel to go to a 2 ohm load, or wire each coil to a channel to keep the 4 ohm load. I am sure others will chime in with more helpful advice but this is all I know how to do.

Speaker wiring

 

http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_...L+FX2-600.html

there is the amp, everything was low budget


RMS Power Rating:
4 ohms: 95 watts x 2 chan.
2 ohms: 120 watts x 2 chan.
Bridged, @ 4 ohms: 240 watts x 1 chan

 

You can't run that sub bridged to a 4 ohm load. If you were to bridge your sub you would either put an 8 ohm load on it and see about half of that 240 watts (I think, I have read a lot over the past couple of weeks.)

If you were to go parallel then it would put 2 ohms on the amp and it would damage the amp.

Your best bet would be to run each voice coil off of a channel on that amp. Each voice coil would see 95 watts rms which would equal 95 x 2 = 190 watts rms.

This would get the max out of that amp at least as far as this sub is concerned.

 

http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_...e+07TC104.html

Thats the box and there is only one set of connections, how would i wire each coil?

 

Well it looks like to me that from that post they have 2 wires running to each of the corresponding voice coil posts. You could do one of two things open up the enclosure by taking the sub off and checking to see how it is wired. I would personally purchase a second terminal and make it so I could run each one off of a separate channel.

 

ok i think the website messed up because if i look at just the kicker comp 07 (not in a box) it says its a svc if i look at the same sub in the box it says its a dvc sub. Im so confused right now haha im gonan call sonic and ask

 

I believe essentially that right now it is wired in parallel.
Like so:


Here is what I recommend:

 

Ok if it is a single voice coil you can easily bridge it and it will work out just fine.

 

Thanks you so much for your help, i called kicker and sonic screwed up it is a svc sub thanks so much for your help

 

yep so where the amp shows the mono hook up connect the wires to that and run a single set of wires to that box. Then every thing will balance out just fine and you can run a bridged 4 ohm load on that sub.

 

cool, thanks