I need some help how to wire this amp.

[hailz]

Hello everyone, Let me start off by saying. I am not the most knowledgeable about all this car audio stuff. But I am learning every day. I always wanted to have a little sound system of my own and I bought some parts and have a tiny issue now.

I bought two of these SEX12D4 - http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_27312_RE-Audio-SEX12D4.html

They had good reviews and I heard they are pretty decent, I know they arn't the best. This is my first system and I didn't want to buy crazy stuff because I don't understand it all yet.

Ok and I bought this amp CTX4200.1 - http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_68070_RE-Audio-CTX-4200.1.html

I know this amp isnt the best either but I wanted it to match to subwoofers brand. My plan was to wire both subs to this amp @ 1ohm since this amp shouldn't do 1500rms as some people said I think it's honestly more then enough for me.

I wanted to wire it like this

But now I ran into a problem. I bought the amp, It said it was a mono amp so I thought mono means it would have 1 channel of connectors on the amp. But it has two. See picture below.

It says speaker 1,2. How should I go about wiring this now? Can I use Speaker 1 + - and wire it @ 1ohm. Or do I need to do something else? I really don't want to return it because I don't live in the US and it's alot to ship heavy stuff back there.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help me.

[Guest]

doesnt matter if you use just one speaker set or both.

or wire it like this for each sub, one sub on each speaker terminal set.

edit: both options will make the amp see 1 ohm.

[Emmet]

It's bridged internally, wire each subs coils in parallel and wire a sub per set of terminals and the amp will see a 1 ohm load.

[hailz]

Thanks guys you helped alot I wasn't sure about how to go about doing it and rather ask then break it messing around. I just assumed mono means 1 terminal.

I'm going to wire it up like the top one. I am right to say you can't wire it the 'bad way' like I drew?

It should be good running the amp 1500rms(should do less because its overrated) @ 1ohm on two 600rms subs? I heard the subs can take alot more but I'm just doing it for some fun nothing crazy.

Thanks again.

[MrSkippyJ]

if i am reading the writing on the amp correctly, all of those ways are fine. set your gain correctly and it should be fine.

[Guest]

the four ways you posted work identically fine.

it doesnt matter which + and - you use. doesnt matter if you use one set of +- or both sets of +-.

edit: stop overthinking it. if you think this is difficult, setting gains must be like calculus to you.