Mono or stereo
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From: indiana
Well first of all you can't run a 800.4 evox bridged parallel on 4 ohm speakers. they need to be 8 ohm speakers to have a 4 ohm load total. You can run a 1200.4 2 ohm evox bridged parallel and that will give you app. 300w to each 6x9. Depending on which compression driver you are running, you will need a separate amp to run them.
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I don't think it'll really make a difference, as long as you don't bridge to a 2 ohm load. BUT, you are only giving those speakers a max of 115w each. They need a lot more to get all the benefit of cutting holes in your bags and mounting 4 speakers. Assuming you are putting them in there to get some thump from the *** end. Not sure 100w a speaker is going to make you happy.
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Two ways to skin your cat here.
1. Run each bag pair of 6x9 in parallel for 2 ohms and put to channel 1 and channel 2 in "stereo" for each bag respectively.
This is a 2 ohm load on channel 1 and channel 2 which is no problem. CD's run in stereo at their normal load
2. Series each bag pair to 8 ohms and then parallel the two together for 4 ohms to bridge to 1/2.
Either way it's the same power and load on the amp. 2 ohm stereo and 4 ohm bridged is the exact same load on amp as far as current draw and heat will basically be the same.
For simplicity sake, go with option 1 because quite frankly it's simpler to wire and less to mess up.
1. Run each bag pair of 6x9 in parallel for 2 ohms and put to channel 1 and channel 2 in "stereo" for each bag respectively.
This is a 2 ohm load on channel 1 and channel 2 which is no problem. CD's run in stereo at their normal load
2. Series each bag pair to 8 ohms and then parallel the two together for 4 ohms to bridge to 1/2.
Either way it's the same power and load on the amp. 2 ohm stereo and 4 ohm bridged is the exact same load on amp as far as current draw and heat will basically be the same.
For simplicity sake, go with option 1 because quite frankly it's simpler to wire and less to mess up.
