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Cartman

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I have a MTX 4250D (400 watts RMS @ 2 ohms)right now and just won a 6500D (800 watts RMS @ 2 ohms) off ebay, can I wire these together so that if I got a (2) 4 ohm subs each would be getting 600 watts if I wire them in parallel.

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Um no, I don't think so. I've learned never to 1) stack amps in series and 2) never send 2 amps into 1 speaker.
 






It wont work. If you had 2 of the same amps it will. All of the voice coils need to have the same wattage and inpendance to each voice coil. If not you have a good chance to blow your subs.
 






Okay, this is what I was thinking of, basically each sub would be powered by both amps so all would be getting the same power. the red lines are both the + and - wires.
so amp 1 would be sending 200 watts to each and amp 2 would be sending 400 to each sub.
 

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one will get more power than the other. The + wire decides on how much power the speaker gets not the -. You also cannot wire amps together or let one amps + touch another.
 






this is a bad idea

you should sell em both and buy the 800a2 i have for sale
 






it is feasable but ud have to have all the same amp..i was looking at the solox and they have a diagram to run 4 amps to it =)...boom boom
 






Cartman,

I don't think you can do it the way you're thinking. Let's just think about one speaker for a minute. Normally you would use one amp. No problem. Everybody knows how to do that. Some people, if they have a 2-channel amp, want to bridge the amp so that both channels are combined, which would double the amount of power into the one speaker. When you bridge an amp, you're doing nothing more than telling one channel (let's say the left channel in this case) to operate on the positive half of the waveform and the other channel (which would therefore be the right channel) to operate on the negative half. Voila! Your 2-channel amp is behaving like a 1-channel (mono) amp and you're getting double the power. Notice however, that both channels are not operating on the same part of the waveform at the same time. They are splitting responsibility - I'll work on one half and you can work on the other half.

The way this relates to what you're asking, is that the only way I know of that you can get two separate amplifiers to operate properly on a single load (either one speaker, or multiple speakers tied together), is if you can duplicate what you would get if you bridged two amplifier channels - one amp would need to operate on the positive half of the waveform and the other amp would need to operate on the negative half. Amplifiers don't automatically know how to do this. They need to have this feature built in. This is what Mhn3773 is referring to with the 4 amps. Kicker makes some amps that have what is called a strapping connection. Strapping is nothing more than bridging. When you connect the strapping jacks on 2 amps with this feature, each amp will work on the corresponding part of the waveform and not interfere with the other.

So in summary, to do what you want to do, you need two identical amps and they both have to have a "strapping" feature.
 






^ round of applause i acctually understood =) lol if this keeps on going mabey ill be smart one day lol


edit..u know when u say in ur post ur gunna be smart and u dont really mean it..spell things right :( lol woops
 






Hey Mhn3773,

Thanks for the vote of confidence, especially in the other thread. I'm glad I can be of help.
 






and thank you for taking all the time to make some seriously helpfull posts keep up the good work =)
 






Okay I guess I won't try it - the 6500D should be enough to power either on mtx 9500 series 10" or 2 MTX 8000 series 10's.
 






we may be able to work out a trade if your interested in which i get that smaller amp of yours and you get those subs.
 






the 8000 series or the 9500?
 












well i was thinking either of the subs actually depending on what you wanted.

i already picked up a comperable amp though

check out your pm box.
 






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