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May 2, 2006 | 05:58 AM

yield2s

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Ohms Q.

I just wired four 4ohm 6.5 speakers on my boat to one channel of my Kicker 200.2. I did it in a way that presents a total of 2ohms and my kicker is 2ohm rated. Is that all that matters? or did i screw it up?

BTW it sounds great, just dont want to blow the amp.

May 2, 2006 | 08:43 AM

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if u are matched 2 ohm to 2ohms ur perfect. sounds like it should work great. and on a side note, your amp should turn off before anything happens to it. i rarely see a blown amp

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May 2, 2006 | 12:31 PM

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Are these 6.5 woofers or full range speakers? If full range do you meen by one channel that you hooked them to one side of the two channel amp or did you bridge the amp to one channel? The piont I'm getting at is that if they are full range and you wired them with the amp bridged to one channel then you will be playing a mono signal and will be missing notes in stereo playback. You can easily acheive the same power output by just parallel wiring two speakers to two ohms on each side for stereo sound.

If thses are woofers forget everything I just said...lol

May 2, 2006 | 06:01 PM

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Thanks for the quik responces. This is exactly what i have. Two Kicker loudspeaker(6"& PA style tweeter) on the wakeboard tower, going to the right channel in parallel(2ohms) then four 6.5" 2way 4ohm speakers. the Amp is in "hi-pass" mode and I have an other amp and 2 10"s for bass.
Now i think I did it wrong at this point becase I have 2 of the 6.5" in parallel(2ohm) and 2 in series(8ohm) and then that is in parallel again, and of coarse I show 2ohms on my meter (which is what i want to run at) but what i really have is a pair at 2ohms and a pair at 8ohms.
I think i need to rewire it in a serial/parallel config that will be at 4ohms.