Just got a 4080 enc along with one of the older JLw6s. A Craigslist sub When I bought it the guy couldn't tell me much on what model and such except that it's a w6. I believe it is a DV coil because it has a pair of terminals on either side. The guy had soldered speaker wire to run the sub what looks like in parallel. I also have a 5 channel Soundstream 600.5 that makes the mids and highs (Kappa 60.7cs/Kappa coaxial) sound very nice but the bass is lacking. I also have an Eclipse AVN5435 HU.

According to the amp's manual it says that it can push 240w running 2 ohm and 120w 4 ohm. I've always used a 4 ohm hookup in all of my other vehicles. I think i'm running about 120w into the sub which is way under rated even if it is a little bit older of a sub. So, how do I get the 240w out of this amp?

Oh and I seriously am looking at getting a new 10w6v2 and a 500/1 but I want to make sure I used what I have before I shell out some dough.

 

For 2ohms you need either a dual voice coil sub at 4ohms or two 4ohm subs, but at 240 watts that is barely enough for one sub. Whats the RMS of your sub?

Hey did the 4080 come packaged ok? Mine arrived and the grill was broken. Trying to reglue it now...

 

The sub has a DVC. Not sure what the RMS rating is for the sub. 300w maybe? Like I said I bought it off of CL. It was advertised as a 10w6 but when I showed up it was the older one. $80... not bad I guess. I got a once in a lifetime deal on two 4080s for $150. No kidding. The guy wanted to get rid of them and I was only there to buy one but he had both sides. I was like ok i'll take both for $150. I couldn't believe it. If I knew then what I know now I would have kept both and had two new JL w6v2s running off a JL 500/1. I would have been happy as hell. But I sold the other for normal forum price to a great guy. Made some money to buy my Eclipse DD HU.

 

Found this online. Nice add on to get the power I need. What do you all think?

http://www.techronics.com/index.cfm?...roduct_ID=6913

 

That amp will work just fine. 475 watts.

I have a Soundstream Reference 500sx I am going to use on my JL 10w6v2!

Woot!!

 

 

I am running DLS 5 channel amp and pushing about 400 watts to my JL w6v2.

 

I took a look at how the sub was wired at the sub itself and it's running 2-ohm in series. This would tell the amp that I want to run 4-ohm correct? 2-ohm x DVC = 4 ohm load from amp. My case is that bitch is putting only 120w into the sub. I may be way off but if not that's crap.

 

You may have to get the manual and see if you can put that biatch into bridged mono at 2ohms. 120w is not enough by far for that sub, it will sound like crap.

 

I rewired to be in parallel and that sucker sounds twice as better now. Guess i'm running at 2-ohm now.

This is how I ran it....


I actually wouldn't mind getting another JL 10w6 down the road.

 

If your amp can handle a 2 ohm load, then use it. When you get the next sub, you can run them each at 2 ohms, but in series for a 4 ohm load. Aome amps can handle a 1 ohm load too.

I had the 250 watt sub channel of my old JL 500/5 powering the single 10w6 and it sounded great. 1000 watts and two 10w6's sounds better though.

 

Yepp...must be nice to have that much wattage. Now I just got to get a can of Rattle-Be-Gone and i'll be set.