I have two alpine 1242d. I need to wire them parallel parallel. Ive seen many pictures on how to do it but im still a little confused. Okay first off do i need any special type of wiring or will my 4awg wire work. Because it shows multiple wire connections where the wires combine. The positive connect from an existing wire already running to the amp. If anyone understand what i mean can you explain it to me. Thank you much appreciated!
you could no longer do it with out putting greater resistive factors in it. 2 4 ohm SVC subs in parallel continuously equals 2 ohm. what style of amp are you working? countless amps can handle a 2 ohm mono bridged configuration (and get greater capability to them). in case you prefer to furnish the amp 4 ohms, you could run each and every off of left or stunning, and feed them a mono sign. i assume this may be as on the verge of give way of a bridged mono 4 ohm configuration with 2 4 ohm subs.
This is series parallel this diagram is a bit easier to read they didnt have one for par/par your wiring fine but 4 awg is a big huge for speaker wire for so i doubt it will work for wiring 2 dual voice coil subs where the wires combine just twist the copper together and put it in the speaker terminal if you feel like you just cant completely understand it take it to your local car audio shop or a best buy wherever they install car audio equipment im sure thye wont mind helping you out its hard to explain in writing
First off, your 4 awg wire will work for powering your amp but its right on the edge, I would go with 1/0 if your amp terminals will accept that gauge. Second, you don't have to make all those connections with one speaker wire, that diagram is simply showing you the current path. If you want a really simple way to do this, cut three strips of speaker wire and strip the ends about 3/8 of an inch. stick one end of each positive wire into one of the positive terminals on any voice coil. now run one wire to the + amp terminal, one wire to the other + voice coil on the same sub, and one wire to either of the + voice coil terminals on the other sub. now strip a fourth wire and connect the two + terminals on the second sub. repeat the same procedure for the - terminals. I reccomend using 14 or 16 gauge speaker wire for this. Good luck
