I have a 4 channel amp and one subwoofer. I bought 1 L.O.C. converter and have my amp bridged in channels 1 and 2. Is there anyway I can bridge channels 1 and 4 to get more power? Will I need another L.O.C.? Or is there anyway I can wire all 4 channels to the one subwoofer?
if you look near where the wires connect to the amp you should see like instrcutions that say "Bridge" if you don't then my best bet would be to just leave it alone as it may not be able to handle the power, but hey i'm not a professional by any means so.....
That sucks, I don't know what I was thinking when I got the 4 channel over a two. What if I bridged channels 1 and 2 together, bridged channels 3 and 4, and hooked the two bridged channels together to the sub, think that would work?
What is your subwoofer's voice coil configuration? You can potentiall bridge 1+2 for 1 coil and 3+4 to the other coil. To do this, your sub must be dual voice coil. Your amp must be stable at each coil's impedance (i.e.: 2ohm or 4ohm?) when bridged, and your box will need to have an extra set of terminals outside so you can hook up each coil separately. Just sounds like you need to use this 4 channel amp for other applications and just get your self a decent mono (1 channel) subwoofer amp.
The sub is dual 2 ohm voice coils. The amp can be either 4-8 ohms bridged. I don't know if this will help, but wired in parallel, the manual says that's 1 ohm. And in series, that's 4 ohms.
solution: take the 4 channel amp and bridge channels 1&2 together, and channels 3&4 together. this makes a more powerful, 4 ohm stable, 2-channel amp. use this to drive our front stage. pick up a small, mono class D amp and use this for a subwoofer or two.
if you're running from the factory stereo head unit, you may need a simple electronic crossover to split up tha channels, such as the Coustic XM-3
Aight, sounds good. I got the factory still, and got a Peripheral P50A converter, I'm going to need another one, but how will I hook it up? The same way to the rear speakers? And yes, the sub is dual 2 ohm voice coil.
I've actually seen online (now that you guys have cleared things up for me some) that I can wire the DVC's independently to each channel of the amp. Which will be the loudest? In stereo mode it gets 2-4 ohms, and bridged it gets 4-8. I have the sub wired in series to present a 4 ohm load. So if I bridge 1 & 2 together and 3 & 4 together, that will be 8 ohms right? ...I've confused myself now. I just want the loudest I can get right now until I get money to buy another amp. I'm looking at the Power Acoustik SL-2600D (SL2600D) amp just because it looks like a match, is that one good?
I'd use a PAC OEM-1 LOC. it taps into the factory wiring with a T harness so no wires are cut, and has a box giving you 4 RCA channel outputs with adjustable gain. that way you get front and rear RCA outputs. if you want a sub output you'll need an external crossover or EQ that offers 4 channels in, and 6 out, again, like the XM-3 I mentioned earlier