CORRECT ANSWER! :)
If you're really curious, this is how to arrive at the OHM level given a set
of speakers in parrellel.. lets say you have that 4 ohm and 8 ohm sub...
well, here's the calculation
1
------------------------------------
(1/sub1) + (1/sub2) + (1/sub3) + ......
Confused yet?? this is what it looks like once plugging in the numbers
1
------------------ =
(1/4) + (1/8)
1
------------------- =
(.25) + (.125)
1
----------- =
.375
2.67 tadahh!
and as MM said, for serial, just add the ohm loads together which would be
12
Now if you need to know what serial is and what parallel is.. we'll get to
that tommorrow ;-)
Ken Allgood
Running 4 - 12" 4-ohm subs off a 2 channel Rockford Fosgate in parrallel on
each channel, putting me at that desired 2 ohm level per channel :)
97 5.2L CC SLT, Quick-D intake, Gibson Catback, HP PCM
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:08:56 -0500
> From: Michael Meyerhoff <mmeye@kcnet.com>
> Subject: Re: DML: Re: Re: Need a speaker expert...
>
> At 07:21 AM 5/11/2001 +0900, you wrote:
> >That is not true. 4 ohm and 8 ohm speakers can be used together. As you
said
> >the overall ohm value of the speaker system would be in the neighborhood
of
> >6 ohms a
>
> 6 ohms with two drivers??. It doesn't work that way at all.
>
> a 4 and a 8 in series = 12 ohms
> a 4 and a 8 in parallel = 2.67 ohms
>
> __
>
> two 4s and two 8s could be used together on one channel to get to 6 ohms
as
> follows
>
> ____4___8______
> 4 8
> In this configuration the 8s will take twice the power the 4s will. So
for
> each 100w applied, each 4 will get 16.6watts and each 8 will get
33.3watts.
>
> hope this helps
> mm
>
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