Woofer Speakers: Increase Ohm Load

Video Transcript

"Back again guys this time we are going to increase the ohm load on a dual voice coil driver. What does that mean? Well say that you have an amplifier that is only stereo, can not be bridged and you need a higher ohm load impedance but your sister bought you a woofer that is dual two-ohm and drops to low. Do not be scared, we can make that woofer four-ohms just like we made it one ohm. How do we do that? Well I did want to take that dual strand piece of speaker wire that had a positive and negative pull and I have now stripped it. Just taking the positive end, it really does not matter what end but I do not know I like to tend to be positive, so I will take the positive end. I will take the positive side of one end of the woofer, drop it in here and take this wire to the negative side of the other set of voice coils. That is right red to black this time. The reason why we did that is we are putting the woofer in parallel now, to increase the ohm load. We have that and now we are going to take the strand of wire that we have already crimped and added a set of connectors to, we are going to connect the positive side here and the negative side just as you would any other standard driver and now we are just going to run this positive to the negative. Now what we have effectively done to this dual two ohm driver is lowered the impedance from one ohm, two ohm per driver to an equal four ohm load, which will now make this driver now safe for most amplifiers and that is how you increase the ohm load on DVC."