odd resistance

[sundownz 197]

Touch your DMM leads together and see what it says.

If the coils were "half broken" then resistance on one side would double as they are bifilar wound coils -- a D2 is actually Quad-4 for example. Then two 4 ohm windings are in parallel per side for 2 ohms.

so i may have two half broken coils one on each sub... at the same time.?

you know whats funny.... im not even mad at my self... i wanted to pull the box anyway,... and i wanted to recone the subs to dual 2's any how..... i had just NEVER seen this issue before. blew my mind.

Most likely not -- it would say ~2 ohms more than likely if they were half out.

See the first part of the post; touch the DMM leads together and see what it says first.

my DMM reading jumps around ALOT.. when i i touch them togather... but it settles at 1. and .9 so 1 ohm i guess.

I have several DMMs around here that are awful at reading resistance but do everything else okay.

If you have 1 ohm on the leads and read 2 ohms on the subs the sub load is 1 ohm.

[jcarter1885 995]

both my DMMS are wrong?

i have alot of speakers laying around here... i just metered them all.... every 4ohm speaker i meter reads 4 ohms.... every 8 ohm speaker 8 ohms every 2 ohm speaker meters 2 ohms.......

go back out to my car... 2 ohms at the amp.

Your dmm has to be off, most speakers read at an ohm load lower than whats its rated(nominal) at. The reactive load should be what it shows up as, most 8 ohm drivers i dealt wih read any where from 5.xx ohms to 8 ohms.

Even my Neo-pros read 6.xx ohms

Edited April 13, 2012 by jay-cee

[jonbearsmt 919]

went and borrowed a friends meter... a good one..... 1 ohm at the amp...

i feel this big

sorry to waste every ones time because of my meters.

Edited April 13, 2012 by bigjon

[stevemead08 752]

Glad its worked out.

[jonbearsmt 919]

Glad its worked out.

thanks... its a bitter sweet moment....

[ricksi30 923]

Good to hear! So the "not as loud" part was just your mind playing tricks on you?

[jonbearsmt 919]

no one of my RCAs was half way pulled out of the amp..

then after i plugged it in.. i listened to it quickly and i think my mind was stuck on the amp playing at 2 ohms. so yes lol shit. yes and no