Woofer Speakers: Bridge a Single Voice Coil

Video Transcript

"Back again, and now we're going to go over wiring and bridging drivers. Now, you remember from the previous step, we crimped wires and put terminal connections on. Now, these are usually reserved for most woofers now; to be put into the box end, but we do have drivers that we went over earlier that have press end connections. Now this wire, positive, red stripe; this wire, negative, and as you can see, it's marked positive and negative on the driver. Very important to you to know, so you don't have a woofer out of phase. I've crimped the connection in a little tighter so that it sticks. Notice the tension that's being applied to the positive side, and now we'll apply this side to the negative side. In there very tight and very secure. Now, since this is a single ohm driver, or a single voice coil driver with a four ohm load, we'll be using this driver in the stereo configuration, where we'll be going channel to channel on a two channel amplifier, or on a mono block it'd be a mono configuration, but it'd still be ran stereo at the lowest ohm impedance, or the highest ohm impedance; excuse me. This is four ohm, so on a four ohm amp it would reduce the one channel to two ohms; almost finished. Cut here, separate the wire, very simple. If it's a little tough, take the wire, crimp around the perimeter of the jacket, strip, strip, ready for terminal connections into the box and then onto the amplifier. Step one of loading, bridging, and wiring drivers."