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Hi there. i just have a query and was wondering if you could help me out?

i just purchased a pair of MTX Thunder4000 4ohm subs. i have an amp with the following specs:

• Power / channel @ 4ohm 14.4V: 150WRMS x 2

• Power / channel @ 2ohm 14.4V: 255WRMS x 2

• Power / bridged @ 4ohm 14.4V: 500WRMS x 1

what is the best way to wire the subs? in parallel with the amp bridged or simply wire one sub up to each channel?

any help would be great. ur website suggest just to wire one sub per channel. but this will give appx 150wrms to each sub.. can i wire them in parallel and give them the bigger amount of power?

cheers in advance!! :D

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parallel will give you 2 ohms - amplifer won't handle that bridged for a long peroid of time.

although less power I would suggest one per channel and feed them a mono signal. safer option.

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hmm.. just thinking... when you wire the subs in series first then bridge the amplifier. When the subs are wired in series they create an 8OHM load. However when the amp is then bridged the amplifier will see half of the presented load which would be 4 OHM's??

correct in incorrect?

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