Checking this parallell wiring is ok |
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Jack1991
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Posted: 25 March 2020 at 5:44pm |
Im building my own subs so the plan can be changed. I have seen it done similar but not exactly this way so just want to be 100%. I would use NL4 sockets and cable but the car amplifier doesnt have big speaker terminals so it would be tight fitting in 2 wires in 1 socket. So thought this way would be okay??
They are ALL NL2 sockets. So on the socket with the yellow mark on it will have 2x positive cables soldered to 1 terminal and then 2x negative cables soldered to 1 terminal. Then just 1 cable running to the amp. |
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Jack1991
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Its mainly the 2 cables soldered to 1 terminal that i was worried about? Or will it be fine
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yes fine with wiring it like that. most commercial designs do the same link out with 2 nl's in parallel
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DMZ. "The bass was intense. Girls were literally running up to stand next to the subs"
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Jack1991
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Cool thanks. Thats good then. I was expecting it all to have to be NL4's so each cable has a seperate terminal to solder to.
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4D
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depends on the box configuration still need to link the pins either nl2 with 4 wires or nl4 with 8
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DMZ. "The bass was intense. Girls were literally running up to stand next to the subs"
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jacethebase
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If both boxes are the same I’d advice putting 2 speaking in each box.
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Jack1991
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inside will look like this
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Meat
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NL2 plugs are evil. NL4 with only +1-1 connected for the win.
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Don't test the champignon sound
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Jack1991
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Lol why do you say that? Just more 'future proof'?
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James Tengo
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From hazy memory - You can mate an NL4 plug with an NL2 socket, but not the other way round. So everyone and their mum uses NL4 connectors on their cable. The metal ones if you are serious. Buy once, cry once. Cable will outlive any amp, speaker and processor, so it's worth doing properly. From a lighting perspective the best rig with crap cable is far worse than the average rig with good cable.
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dj jammin
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Other way round.. just don't use nl2 sockets as they only accept nl2 plugs.. Nl4 sockets will accept nl2 or nl4 plugs... can be a pain if you find you're short of cables and need to borrow one but it won't plug in cos you cheaped out and used nl2 sockets...
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dj jammin
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The only problem with the nl2 plugs is they don't fit larger diameter cables which nl4's do.. ie cables with a larger overall diameter don't go through the 'cap' that screws over the connections..
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