Amp settings where to start

[Robbie]

Can anyone give me help with my amp i have fitted to my SN 1994. We have just fitted an amp to the boat with a set of tower speakers and a set in the boat. We are running the boat speakers off the head unit and the tower speakers of the amp which we have bridged. I have two question.
1. Can anyone explain exactly how to bridge my amp?
2. Does anyone now what way i should set the amp at the start because i am not sure about all the settings. Eg the filters and bass boost etc
Rob

[mfloski]

Need more information:

1. How many channels is the amp?
2. What kind of tower speakers are you going to be hooking up?
3. What brand and model number is the amp you are using?

The answer to your questions can not be safely answered until you answer these questions..

[Robbie]

Its a four channel amp with 50RMS per channel at 2 ohms
The tower speakers are polks 60RMS and are hokked up to the amp on it own.
the amp is a pyle PLMRA 420 Pyle not the best but bucget dictated.

[Robbie]

Is that enough info. thanks for the help

[Robbie]

So can anyone help me with this problem. The amp is a pyle 420 1000 watt. Any advice would be good and more then welcome. Mfloski have i given you enough info to go on let me now if you need more. thanks Rob

[882001]

you can bridge that amp to be a 2,3 or 4 chanel amp. are you running a sub? how many tower speakers? crossover should be hpf on any speaker thats not a sub(all interior and tower) crossed over at 120/ 150, lpf on sub at 80/120 bridgeing will be the pos and neg on the outside of 1/2 and 3/4 if that makes sense.

[dave210]

how many tower speakers? if 4 run 2speakers to chanel 1 and 2speakers to channel 2 that will be putting the ohm load to 2 ohm stereo then you could run a sub on 3and 4 bridged. 1/2channel should be on hp and 3/4 will be lp.the sub needs to be a single coil 4 ohm speaker. this is a set up I use in alot of customers boats hope it helps

[Robbie]

We have two tower spreakers which i have bridged from channel 1/2 and 3/4. Is this making it run on 2 Ohms now? Can you explain in more detail about the low pass filter and high pass filter for the channels?
Cheers Rob

[Robbie]

This is the link to the amps instruction manual have a look and let me now what you think.
Robhttp://www.pyleaudio.com/manuals/PLMRA220-420.pdf

[mfloski]

Ok, just hook up the two tower speakers to the amp....bridge the 4 ch of the amp to to channels (say something if you don't know how to do this). This will be sending more "watts" of power to each speaker but will still be only a 4ohm load, which is ideal for most smaller speakers like the internal boat and tower speakers. Set the amp crossover to HPF (high pass filter), which will allow the mid and high frequency signal to pass through to the tower speakers (you don't want the low frequency, ie bass, to go to smaller speakers like tower speakers). any more questions?

[Robbie]

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Sound good. not sure if i have hucked up the bridge cable correctly. I bought two y shapped cables with white and red on one end and clear on the other end. What wa do i connect them up.
Cheers Rob

[mfloski]

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I have no idea what your talking about on that? pictures?

[Robbie]

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Can you tell me how to connect up the bridge properly as i am not sure exactly how to do this.
Thanks Rob

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