Figuring out the Load of 6.5 Components

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bayareastereo

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Posted: June 09, 2004 at 6:46 PM / IP Logged

Hey Guys, I have a 93 Golf with front and rear 6.5" and tweeters. All four (front 2 and rear 2) speaker leads go into the crossovers, and from there go to the 6.5" and the tweeter. What I'm wanting to know, is this load just a regular 4 Ohm load?

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Posted: June 09, 2004 at 9:18 PM / IP Logged

If it were me, I would take a measurement of ohms with a multimeter at one of the speaker locations. Crossovers, however, maintain the same impedence when splitting the signal to the two speakers. So, if you wanted to wire 4 ohms to each speaker, then splitting at a crossover will not change it to 2 ohms.

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^^^ That is correct, though simply put.

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Posted: June 11, 2004 at 3:59 PM / IP Logged

Ok, so I'm just going to assume then that it'll be a 4 ohm load. Not like it matters much, but I just wanted to know. I picked up a 5-channel MTX Thunder amp and really didn't want to be pushing four channels at 2 ohms (didn't really need to stress the amp for more wattage). Thanks for your answers.

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Figuring out the Load of 6.5 Components

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