| Give Your Amplifier Extra Power For The Music Speakers |
| Written by Mat Davis |
| Sunday, 31 January 2010 08:59 |
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In this article let us learn How to Bridge Two Car Audio Amps in six easy steps and the advantages of bridging two car amplifiers with tips and warning for doing this job perfectly. Let us learn to get it right the first time itself because wrong connection may blow out the speakers or even burn the amps or sometimes in the worst case both may happen.
In this article let us learn How to Bridge Two Car Audio Amps in six easy steps and the advantages of bridging two car amplifiers with tips and warning for doing this job perfectly. Let us learn to get it right the first time itself because wrong connection may blow out the speakers or even burn the amps or sometimes in the worst case both may happen. With the help of this discussion things can be made for aspirants who want to connect it by themselves. The things that are required for bridging amps are a set of pliers, wire strippers, wrenches, wires that are capable of handling the power of the amps along with good quality amplifiers. The first step to be done before performing the task is to thoroughly check the manuals of both the amplifiers given by the manufacturer. Only the amplifiers which has got same characteristics like power etc can be bridged. If amplifiers with different power rating are bridged it may lead to malfunction or even damage to the amplifiers. Thus one should ensure that both these amplifiers have same power rating. In case there is any doubt of performing the task or in determining the match among the two it is better to drop the idea of bridging them both. Before attempting to perform the operation please make sure to power down both the amplifiers. It is as simple as it is just disconnection of them from the power supply. There is one easy way to do this. It is just disconnecting from the car battery the positive cable clamp either with wrenches or pliers so as to keep it inactive throughout the process of bridging. The amplifiers are always provided with a switch the back side. Check fir the switch and turn it to the bridge mode. This will make it possible to bridge two amps. Every amp has a positive terminal and a negative terminal . For easy identification red color terminals are positive and black are for negative terminals. Next step is to make a connection between positive terminal of one of the amps with one end of the wire. The other end of the wire is attached to negative terminal of another amp. Make the connections tight by screwing the knobs. This process is called bridging of amps. The speakers and the terminals in the bridged amplifier can be connected by the wire. The positive wire is connected to the terminal which is positive and in the same way negative is connected to the negative of the speaker. With this article the question of how to bridge two car audio amps becomes easy. Though the instructions are enough to carry out the bridging it is very important to keep in mind that if there is any uncertainty the bridging must not be done. Since this might lead to damage in the speakers and also the amplifiers. |