Help with Amps

(fastrd400) · (fastrd400) **Join Date: May 2009** 08-21-2009, 12:21 AM

So I bought a third amp. I currently have 4 tower speakers, and 4 house speakers. Ultimately I'd like to run each set of tower speakers off an individual amp, and all 4 house speakers off another. So how can, or do I wire the amps so that the full power of a four channel amp is being used to power just 2 speakers? Both amps for the 4 tower speakers are 400 watts each and will be powering Pold DB651 speakers. Thanks for any help or suggestions you guys might have.

(cam003) · (cam003) **Join Date: Aug 2009** 08-21-2009, 4:34 PM

look at the amp i am sure it has a diagram on it to run the chanels in a bridged arangement. so most likeley you will run you speaker wires like this.

SPEAKER #1 +CH1 AND -CH2
SPEAKER #2 +CH3 AND -CH4

do the same arangement for the the other two speakers and amplifier.

(fastrd400) · (fastrd400) **Join Date: May 2009** 08-21-2009, 4:40 PM

I can't run like that. One amp somehow has blown channels 3 & 4, so I am needing to run solely off channels 1 & 2 for those 2 amps. I may have to pull the fuses again on that amp and make sure this weekend, but last I checked both fuses were good on the amp only working the 2 channels.

(hatepain) · (hatepain) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 08-21-2009, 6:29 PM

You can't get all the power outta the amp with the blown channels there is no special way to wire it to do that. You'll simply be running off half the amp so 200 watts. You likely can run the amp at 2 ohms so all four speakers would be wired in parallel into the 2 channels. This would split whatever power they are getting at 2 ohms by 4 ways.

(Message edited by hate&pain on August 21, 2009)

(fastrd400) · (fastrd400) **Join Date: May 2009** 08-21-2009, 10:06 PM

At the moment I have all four speakers running on channels 1 & 2.