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Okay i dont know much about the technical details of subwoofer wiring. I have a Coustic 400 watt amplifier. The manual says 401DB/801DB then inside says…401DB(1X200 watts for 4 ohm)801DB(1X400 watts for 4 ohm). Then for 2ohm 1X400 watts, 1×800 watts. Im trying to hook a 12" JL audio subwoofer to it, it has Dual voice coils. how should i run the speaker wires?? I tryed hooking it up by connecting the + to + on the subwoofer coils, - to - then ran the positive from the sub to the positve of the amp, and the negative of the sub to the negative of the amp. The sub powered on with some bass but very little, it would make a weird noise and it wasnt barely even moving like it should. I had a 12" Punch subwoofer single coil hooked up to this amplifier, it pounded hard but after a few weeks blew(i bought this whole system off someone mind you) when i removed the subwoofer from the box the idiot had ran electrical wire to the subwoofer without any connectors. I am thinking this is the reason my sub fryed, my amp seems to be working fine though. The green idicator light is on and good, i can’t figure out why my JL isnt hitting though.
Obviously you didnt read my question and what i wrote, i know black is negative/red positive that isnt the issue, my subwoofer isn’t producing bass like it should. Keep the smart remarks off here
JL Audio 12W3v2-2
12" 600W Dual 2-Ohm Subwoofer
Thanks, ill give it a try tomorrow and post how it works out.

k for a dual 2ohm sub on that amp because its not 1ohm stable amp you will have to hook it up in a 4ohm load, connect the positive from 1 coil to the negative of the other coil, then connect the other positive and negative to the amp terminals, should look like this http://a248.e.akamai.net/pix.crutchfield.com/ca/learningcenter/car/subwoofer_wiring/1DVC_2-ohm_mono.jpg

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I have 2 12 inch kenwood subwoofers with 400 watt RMS and a 4 Ohm impendence. First what does the 4 ohm inpendence mean and what is the difference between 2 and 4 ohms in general. Also what is the difference between running a subwoofer at 2 and 4 ohms. Anyways the amp i have powering these sub woofers is a 1800 watt kenwood that gives out 500 watts RMS per channel at 4 ohms and 900 watts per channel at 2 ohms. The problem i am having is that my subs will be really nice and loud and then after running for a bit the bass in the songs starts to crash then it will be quite for a bit then it will peak again. What is wrong??? Am i over powering my subs? What should i have the gain set at? Is it bad to run my subs on maximum power all of the time? Also i have a 4 gaguge wire but it is a crappy one and it doesn’t have as much wire as an expensive 4 gague wire could that be the problem ? The reason i think that the wire could be the problem is because the inline fuze that goes to the battery has blowen like 3 times when it shouldn’t have. And where do i adjust the gain on my amp if i have to?

Here are the specs for the sub

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Kenwood+-+12%22+4-Ohm+Single-Voice-Coil+Subwoofer/9231574.p?id=1218063832074&skuId=9231574&st=kenwood&cp=1&lp=4

Here are the specs for the amp

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Kenwood+-+1800W+Class+D+Mono+Amplifier+with+Low-Pass+Crossover/9763288.p?id=1218169466067&skuId=9763288&st=kenwood&cp=1&lp=4

Sounds like your amp is overworked. Might need to tone down the gain a bit and get it some ventilation.
Try this link for impedance explanations: http://www.prestonelectronics.com/audio/Impedance.htm

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