Amp And Cable Kit Question

[slvryaris]

I always do 4 gauge. Its always better to have to much power then not enough. Plus you can use it on any amp. I think most amps now nicely accommodate 4 gauge wire without any wire tricks like I use to do back in the day.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by slvryaris

I always do 4 gauge. Its always better to have to much power then not enough. Plus you can use it on any amp. I think most amps now nicely accommodate 4 gauge wire without any wire tricks like I use to do back in the day.

My Alpine amp barely can fit the 8 gauge

[Dysfunctionallx]

8 gauge is fine if your running under 500 watts. Im familiar with the amp, it should put out around 400 watts when wired at 2 ohms and bridged so that would be your best bet if you have it wired to 4. See diagram below. This is for a single 4 ohm DVC sub which im pretty sure that model is. If its its a 2 ohm DVC let me know. If you have any questions if I end up going to the Micro Image meet I can help ya out there if you go.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Thanks. It's been a while since I looked at the sub, but I believe there were two pairs of plugs like so: oooo

I think the manual said if it is compatible with the amp, wire it so that the first plugs with the third, and the second with the fourth. I thought the MRP-M450 amp was a monochannel, and not a multi-channel?

[Dysfunctionallx]

Oh yeah my bad was thinking of wrong one it is a mono. Well regardless you should be getting close to 400 watts or more if wired that way. Positive to postive, negative to negative. If the sub isnt still perfoming like you want if your running a sealed box id look into getting a ported one. I personally think the type r sounds alot better ported. Gets all that extra air trapped inside out for more bass.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by Dysfunctionallx

Oh yeah my bad was thinking of wrong one it is a mono. Well regardless you should be getting close to 400 watts or more if wired that way. Positive to postive, negative to negative. If the sub isnt still perfoming like you want if your running a sealed box id look into getting a ported one. I personally think the type r sounds alot better ported. Gets all that extra air trapped inside out for more bass.

Yeah, my bad about thinking it was wired to 4 ohms. The model made me think I did it that way, but yeah, I did wire it to 2 ohms. I want a better amp, but I really don't want to redo the cable. I guess I can always get a vented/ported box instead of my eBay sealed box.