Seperate subs wired in Series?

[SinisterSounds 0]

Hi, im new. LoL hooray for introductions. Anyhow, I currently have the following:

1 12" JL 12w3v2-d4

1 12" Alpine Swr-1242D

1 Kenwood KAC-7202

At this time, I love having both subs but can only hook one up at a time. I drive a GrandAm, and its a pain in the ass to try to fix any boxes between the wheel-wells. Ive only had success with one box so far, and that was the ThunderTC enclosure I had for my 5500's before I sold them. I have two seperate sealed boxes for each, and want to try to place them in both corners of my trunk, but wire them to the sub to provide the most bass possible. Either one works great in parallel, but when I do that and bridge it, the amp runs VERY hot and goes into Protect mode (I suppose its running around 1 ohm at that point?)

The amp is stable at 2 ohms, and I don't want competition level bass with it, but running it in series to one channel of the amp each SUCKS!

What I want to try to do is figure a way to wire the boxes to each other, somehow making the amp see a 8ohm load, then run it bridged. This would give each sub roughly 200 something watts.

My question is : Would this be better at providing bass, and how would I do it using both boxes without drilling any new holes INTO to the boxes I already have, or would it be better to wire each sub in series, then each to a channel of the sub?

Sorry to ramble on! and thanks for the help ahead of time!

Alex

[SinisterSounds 0]

Crap...I just realized I could bridge both subs on the amp, no matter how they are wired. For the longest time with this amp I have thought only one sub could be bridged to it. Thats what skipping over the manual does

Hopefully my next post will not be something dumbass like this

Alex

[johnecon2001 82]

First off:

Hi, welcom to SSA!

Second off... holy shit, what are you doing/thinking?

Thirdly, Yes you could connect the two subs like this:

BUT you need to realize that each one has a different power handling and each one needs a different box size. Not only does the JL sound completely different from the Alpine.. you're going to be sending less than nominal power to both of them. Aside from the fact that it IS going to sound like butt (if you try to tell me it isn't, then you have not heard a good system.. EVER), you're going to get cancellation of sub-freq waves like crazy.

My suggestion to you: Run one or the other. OR sell everything you have, do some reading around here and buy something better (and most likely cheaper) for your car.

What you're trying to do is ghetto at best. It sounds like you want to be impressive with your sound.. but in trying to use everything you own, you will generally be looked upon as a n00b.

[///M5 2,833]

Well you missed the dumbest part of your post. You really, really, really, really should not mix drivers playing the same frequency range. It will most likely do way more harm than good. If you want more bass sell what you have and buy something else.