Amp wiring questions
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Amp wiring questions
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I have an alpine 4 channel amp.
I know how to bridge the sub on channels 3 and 4
But for my front two do I want to use 1 channel for one and 2 channel for the second
Or should I take the positives of both and put them on channel one positive and take the negatives of both and put them on the negative of channel 2(is this method bridging?
I have an alpine 4 channel amp.
I know how to bridge the sub on channels 3 and 4
But for my front two do I want to use 1 channel for one and 2 channel for the second
Or should I take the positives of both and put them on channel one positive and take the negatives of both and put them on the negative of channel 2(is this method bridging?
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each door speaker needs a positive, and a negative. you can't wire two positives to one speaker and two negatives to the other. that's not bridging; that's called setting your amp on fire.
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I don't get how mine didn't help... you even listed it as one of the options in your post:
Since I don't know how to be much clearer... I'll draw it out for you:
CH1+ Speaker 1 Pos
CH1- Speaker 1 Neg
CH2+ Speaker 2 Pos
CH2- Speaker 2 Neg
CH3+ Sub Pos
CH3- (Empty)
CH4+ (Empty)
CH4- Sub Neg
Of course, you may want to make sure that your amp is capable of doing 3 channel bridging (CH3+CH4 = Sub) before you do this.
-Doug
But for my front two do I want to use 1 channel for one and 2 channel for the second
CH1+ Speaker 1 Pos
CH1- Speaker 1 Neg
CH2+ Speaker 2 Pos
CH2- Speaker 2 Neg
CH3+ Sub Pos
CH3- (Empty)
CH4+ (Empty)
CH4- Sub Neg
Of course, you may want to make sure that your amp is capable of doing 3 channel bridging (CH3+CH4 = Sub) before you do this.
-Doug
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Originally Posted by Doug0716,Jul 29 2006, 07:36 AM
I don't get how mine didn't help... you even listed it as one of the options in your post:
Since I don't know how to be much clearer... I'll draw it out for you:
CH1+ Speaker 1 Pos
CH1- Speaker 1 Neg
CH2+ Speaker 2 Pos
CH2- Speaker 2 Neg
CH3+ Sub Pos
CH3- (Empty)
CH4+ (Empty)
CH4- Sub Neg
Of course, you may want to make sure that your amp is capable of doing 3 channel bridging (CH3+CH4 = Sub) before you do this.
-Doug
Since I don't know how to be much clearer... I'll draw it out for you:
CH1+ Speaker 1 Pos
CH1- Speaker 1 Neg
CH2+ Speaker 2 Pos
CH2- Speaker 2 Neg
CH3+ Sub Pos
CH3- (Empty)
CH4+ (Empty)
CH4- Sub Neg
Of course, you may want to make sure that your amp is capable of doing 3 channel bridging (CH3+CH4 = Sub) before you do this.
-Doug
positvie on speaker a
positive on speaker b
going to pos on channel 1
negative on speaker a
negative on speaker b
going to negative on channel 2
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Originally Posted by JDM S2000,Jul 29 2006, 08:20 AM
that is not what im talking about
positvie on speaker a
positive on speaker b
going to pos on channel 1
negative on speaker a
negative on speaker b
going to negative on channel 2
positvie on speaker a
positive on speaker b
going to pos on channel 1
negative on speaker a
negative on speaker b
going to negative on channel 2
Channel 1: +positive (1)
-negative (2)
Channel 2: +positive (3)
-negative (4)
Channel 3: +positive (5)
-negative (6)
Channel 4: +positive (7)
-negative (8)
Channel 1 goes to 1 front speaker. Channel 2 goes to the 2nd front speaker. Channel 3 and 4 are bridged to you sub (I'm guessing that you have a sub). To bridge channels 3 and 4 take the + of 1 of the channels to the + of the sub then take the - of the other channel and take it to the - of the sub. Your amp owners manual will say which channel to hook to for the plus and which to hook to for the minus or it will be drawn on your amp. If this doesn't help you atleast some then you should have someone else install it for you.
Tell us the model number of your amp.
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Originally Posted by JDM S2000,Jul 29 2006, 11:20 AM
that is not what im talking about
positvie on speaker a
positive on speaker b
going to pos on channel 1
negative on speaker a
negative on speaker b
going to negative on channel 2
positvie on speaker a
positive on speaker b
going to pos on channel 1
negative on speaker a
negative on speaker b
going to negative on channel 2
What you're explaining is the "that" and what I'm saying you need to do is the "this"... I already explained how you need to hook it up with a wire-by-wire reference so I don't really know how else to explain it (short of drawing a diagram which I'm not going to do...the users manual probably has one in it though), so with that... I'm done and good luck.
-Doug
On edit:
While searching the FAQ (bored) I found a diagram.. go figure: