wiring question

quijano
quijano Posts: 2
edited March 2007 in Car Audio & Electronics
i hope you guys could help me with this. suppose im gonna wire three 8ohm subs in parallel, then connect it to a bridged 2 channel amp, will the amp see 1.5 ohms or 3ohms??? im confused. the amp im using is an old school orion 275SX. im using three JL 10w0 - 8ohms. will it still be safe for this particular amp??? or will i fry it. im not really into pounding bass. well sometimes :D thanks.
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  • mwh9
    mwh9 Posts: 51
    edited March 2007
    Try looking it up on one of these sites. They seem to be informative on most car audio electronics. You will have to use their menu but, it's very simple. The first one may have a user diagram.

    http://www.bcae1.com

    http://www.caraudiobook.com
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  • sophie
    sophie Posts: 511
    edited March 2007
    by my understanding it will be 2.667
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited March 2007
    Somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 ohms. May be too much for a 2 channel amp. May want to consider just using a pair of subs instead of all 3.
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  • quijano
    quijano Posts: 2
    edited March 2007
    ok, guess ill have to ditch the third sub :)
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited March 2007
    quijano wrote:
    im not really into pounding bass. well sometimes :D thanks.

    This made me chuckle..!
    I keep telling myself the same thing !

    good to see noobs helpin each other.....and you too mac - ski...:D

    I`m saving up to fly you out to do the M3 still......I got about 50 bones so far !
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