How to bridge a car amp for more power

What does bridge means on my car amplifier?

Bridging is usually done to increase the power output total of the rms wattage.One simple example is if your using a 2 channel amp at 50 x 2 rms wattage and what you do is you can take the left and right channel and wire it into one channel just like in the example above.Making the 2 channel into one big power output which means 100 x 1 rms output.

If you do decide to bridge you car amp then always make sure you impedance 2 or 4 ohm is the correct load that the amp can handle.Some amps can handle 1 ohm stable but check your user guide for more pacific info.Briding a car amp reduces sound quality reduces the life of the amplifier and increase the chances of bags of distortion playing from your sound system. .

Instructions on how to bridge a car amp 

1)First check the specs online or the manufactures manual and find out if its ok to bridge it.If you do wire it into bridge mode and its not recommend by the manufacture then you could damage you amp out and have a burnt amp so you have been warned ok!

2)Find out how many channels you car amp has and its like this if its a 2 channel stereo amp then you can bridge it to 1 channel.If you have a 4 channel amp the you can bridge it down to 2 channels to either run it on speakers or subwoofers.

Get the right - and left + and bridge them

3)I will explain it based on a two channel amp to make things more simpler.Ok so on your amp on each channel there is + positive terminal and - a minus terminal just like the image on the right hand side.There are two channels like in the right hand side and what you do is get one positive from the right side and one negative from the left side and bridge them together and that's its you have just bridged you car amp its that simple.