What happens if I would run a 400Wrms sub with a 300Wrms amp?

And

I DID NOT KNOW MY SUBS WERE 4ohms. I ran two 4ohm subs on an amp that was unable to handle a 2ohm load for about 5 minutes. All the sudden they just stopped and i was like WTF! I checked my fuses and found out i had blown one.
QUESTION---Is it possible that i did any major harm to my amp? Right now i am running just one of the subs and it works good.


If you want to know how i could be so stupid and not know the resistance of my subs this is the story: There were some eclipse 300Wrms subs on sale at our local car audio dealer. My friend bought two and a few days later i went and bought one of WHAT I THOUGHT WAS THE SAME SUBWOOFER. I noticed it was an 8ohm sub and i thought, cool i can buy another one and get a 4ohm load on my amp. During this period my friend bought some new subs and wanted to sell me his old eclipse subwoofers that i was gonna buy anyways. So I bought both of his (since they were more broken in than mine) and gave him mine and $70. I thought they were 8ohms since my sub was 8 ohms and got them all hooked up and it was sounden kinda wierd then all the suddon NO SOUND. Yah, that is the story.

your amp probly could handle a 2 ohm load. and if it cant it probly went into protect. you could of doen the amp harm, but if it was any desent qualety, i doubt it. hook the one working sub up to the amp and see if it still works.

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under powering your subs isn't the end of the world, but it is better to put to much power to a sub rather than not enough. If you want to run both subs just run them in parallel that way your amp will see an 8 ohm load, this will help your amp to run cooler and more eficiant.

my bad i meant to say wire your subs in series to get an 8 ohm load, sorry

btw yoru sig is jsut massive. tone it down.

but concoerning yoru question it wont be the end of the world as others above have said

[ October 10, 2005, 08:07 PM: Message edited by: RedZone ]

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