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4th October 2004
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| Gear Head  Joined: Oct 2004 Location: Los Angeles
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Thread Starter | Wiring a 4x12" cab to 8 ohms
Does anyone know how to wire a 4x12" cab with 16ohm speakers,to an 8 ohm load? Is it possible? Thanks! |
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4th October 2004
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Mar 2004 Location: Phoenix
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I don't think so.. Wiring them in series-parallel will void a 16 ohm load... all parallel will void a 2ohm load....and all series will void a 64 ohm load...... Unless I missed something....
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4th October 2004
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| Gear nut Joined: May 2004 Location: Sydney, Australia
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The best he could do is wire 2 speakers in parallel for 8 ohms. But only 2 speakers. The other 2 would have to go unused... | |
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4th October 2004
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| Gear interested  Joined: Nov 2003 Location: Sweden
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4th October 2004
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| Gear nut Joined: Dec 2002 Location: Seattle
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..: If it's important to you, modding the amp to accept a 4 or 16 ohm load is relatively easy to have done. No way to get 8ohm out of that speaker setup you described. You could, however, wire it in series-parallel (to yield a 16ohm load), then run some sort of dummy load at 16ohms in parallel which would net 8ohms. b :* |
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4th October 2004
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| Gear Head Joined: Oct 2004 Location: Los Angeles
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That's what I thought.My amps accept 4,8,16 ohms,so matching isn't the problem.I just like the sound of a 4x12" cab running at 8 ohms.I guess I'll just put in some 8ohm speakers. Thanks for the reply's.
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5th October 2004
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| Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2004 Location: Phoenix
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That would have been my second suggestion....get new speakers.... | |
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5th October 2004
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Oct 2002 Location: washington dc
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Or just run it stereo parallel for dual 8 ohm.
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5th October 2004
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| Gear addict  Joined: Jan 2004 Location: Bawl'mer
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Yes - all parallel is 4 ohms. I'm sure of it since I not only did the math, but did the mod on a 16 ohm cab... ryan | |
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5th October 2004
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| Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2004 Location: Phoenix
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That's what I meant..........typo....
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