speakers and cables

"I hooked them up was I went from the SUB SPEAKER OUT from both subwoofers"

You want to go to the sub INPUT not the output. Unless that was a misprint in your original post, using the output on the subs would blow a fuse.You would be directing the sub amps back into your stereo amplifier.

Grizzly, I am confused (but that doesn’t take much) picture 1.

I’ve never hooked my sub up via speaker wire, but I save all my manuals, so I just went to my M&K sub manual and looked at it, and it appears as if they are saying to hook up as you show in picture 2.

Left + & - out of amp goes into left + and - i "from sub" inputs in subwoofer.

Right + & - out of amp goes into right + & - "from sub" inputs in the sub.

At the sub, in my manual, it shows two sets of (one for L and the other for R) TO SPEAKER outs.

I am not understanding how you wired it in pic one.

I could scan the diagram in my manual and attach it to a reply if that would help?

But on edit: being computer illiterate, I don’t see how to include an attachment on this site?

@jtcf yes it was a typo, I went to the sub INPUT as shown on the pictures

@immatthewj I understand your description. It makes sense. What I did was duplicating the output (that I used to have for ONE sub). I should just treat the subs and the speakers, as left and right channels. 

I tried. Few bucks of fuses are not the end of the World. I will try your suggestion tomorrow.

Grizzly, let me add two more things:

what I described in my last post was a diagram showing how to use only ONE sub.  However, I truly do not think that it would change if you were using two subs, except that you would not use both left and right ins and outs from one sub--in other words left sub would use only left in and only left out/and then the same for the right sub to right speaker.  Sorry because I know that this is way more than obvious, but I felt the need just in case.

The second thing is my manual shows a second option with speaker wire, BUT this is for amps or receivers that feature an OUTPUT 1 (for speaker wires) and ALSO an OUTPUT 2 (for speaker wires).

I am going to assume that you do not have that (I don't think I've ever owned anything that had that) but just in case:  that diagram shows OUTPUT 1 (speaker wires)  hooked to L & R speakers as per the usual way, and it shows OUTPUT 2 (speaker wires) hooking to the speaker wire inputs in the sub.  And note that in this configuration, the speaker wire outputs from the sub are NOT being utilized.  And again, this diagram is for only ONE sub, but if two were being utilized, obviously one sub would connect to L and the other to R. (Even though I know how obvious that is.)  So I am pretty sure you don't have two sets of speaker wire OUTs in your amp, but in the way way way off chance that you do, there is also that option.