Parallel Single Subwoofer Wiring Diagram
Connecting the voice coils of each driver in parallel to to and the drivers themselves in parallel to etc will result in the following impedances.
Parallel single subwoofer wiring diagram. For this example i am using a dvc subwoofer. These terms refer to two ways of routing the speaker wires to your subs to properly manage the overall impedance load. Subwoofer wiring wizard two 4 ohm single voice coil svc speakers. A dual voice coil on the other hand gives you multiple wiring options.
5 20 single voice coil subwoofer wiring 5 27 svc parallel wiring 5 34 svc parallel wiring multiple subwoofers 5 37 svc series wiring 5 50 svc series wiring multiple subwoofers 6 08 calculating. Below are the available wiring diagrams for the speaker configuration you selected. How to wire a single subwoofer in either series or parallel. Whether you need to use a series wiring configuration parallel wiring or a mix of both our diagrams will show you exactly the best way to wire your speakers.
The results will display the correct subwoofer wiring diagram and impedance load to help find a compatible amplifier. There are two basic wiring options. A dvc speaker has two voice coils each with its own set of terminals. Determine what amplifier to use with your subwoofer system.
Fear not though for we have compiled wiring diagrams of several configurations for single voice coil svc drivers. The biggest difference is that there is one wiring option for a single voice coil. Series wiring and parallel wiring. The following diagrams are the most popular wiring configurations.
Select your woofer quantity and woofer impedance to see available wiring configurations. This subwoofer wiring application includes diagrams for single voice coil svc and dual voice coil dvc speakers. Yes some boxes were made to run 2 subwoofers in parallel for a 4 2 or 1 ohm load to the amp. They show a typical single channel wiring scheme.
Two dvc drivers with voice coils in parallel parallel. It sounds like you have one of those boxes. Single voice coil svc wiring tutorial with multi driver sub systems the level of wiring complexity can be enough to turn off even the most adventurous of car audio do it yourselfers. Well actually speakers are bridged at the amp not in the box.
A svc speaker has one voice coil and one set of terminals one positive and one negative. Two dual voice coil speakers in parallel parallel. So you ll just need to do the same with the ones you have or add a 2nd speaker terminal and wire the 2nd subwoofer to it separately. 4 ohm mono is equivalent to 2 ohm stereo.
Single voice coil wiring options.