Exodus Audio
Owner’s Guide 4
Exodus Audio
Owner’s Guide 4
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For our dual 2-ohm voice coil drivers, this results in a nominal 1-ohm load (parallel connecting
voice coils of the same impedance results in half the impedance of either voice coil). This
method is suitable for some car audio amplifiers, but most home audio amplifiers like to see
a greater than a 2 Ohm load (and most are optimized around 4-ohm).
The other method of connecting DVC drivers is to wire the voice coils in series. This means
connecting from the amp to the input of one voice coil, from the output of that voice coil to
the input of the other voice coil, then from the output of the second voice coil back to the
amp:
For our dual 2-ohm voice coil drivers, it results in a nominal 4-ohm load (series connecting
voice coils results in the sum of the impedances of all voice coils). This method of wiring
gives us a much more typical impedance for home audio amplifiers.
Many pro-sound amplifiers have two channels, each capable of driving a 2-ohm load. The
Maelstrom coils have a high enough DCR that the nominal impedance in an enclosure is well
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