multiple speaker wiring options

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Topic: multiple speaker wiring options

Posted By: pisddub
Subject: multiple speaker wiring options
Date Posted: October 07, 2010 at 10:47 AM

I have a total of 8 sets of Polk db 6 1/2" 4 ohm speakers that's 16 speakers all together my current setup is for the use of 6 sets I'm trying to achieve a 4 ohm load by using either my current 6 sets or all 8 sets how can I get these 12 or 16 4 ohm svc woofers to 4 ohms thank you

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Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: October 07, 2010 at 11:10 AM

Parallel 4 speakes to achieve a 1 ohm load per set. Do this for the remaining sets of 4. Then wire each of the 4 speaker sets in series to achieve a 4 ohm load.

Posted By: afdanw
Date Posted: October 07, 2010 at 11:57 AM

i am an idiot wrote:

Parallel 4 speakes to achieve a 1 ohm load per set. Do this for the remaining sets of 4. Then wire each of the 4 speaker sets in series to achieve a 4 ohm load.

should look something like this.

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If your cousin is such a good installer, and he will install anything for a 6 pack; why are you talking to me?

Posted By: afdanw
Date Posted: October 07, 2010 at 12:13 PM

can i ask why? Why would you want to have 16, full range speakers, on one channel of an amplifier. Maybe i am assuneing too much, but i would guess you are trying to bridge a single 2 ch amp into 4 ohm on this. You are talking about a potentially a very big amp needed to do this. Even if you wanted only 50 watts per speaker, you would need a 800watt amp. that is the only way i can see you getting enough power out of any amp to correctly push all 16 of those speakers on one channel. What kind of amp is being put on this?

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If your cousin is such a good installer, and he will install anything for a 6 pack; why are you talking to me?

Posted By: pisddub
Date Posted: October 07, 2010 at 2:16 PM

Thanks guys I've been racking my brain on this for a day or two now and my amp will either be a ppi a1200 or soundstream reference 10.0 I'm leaning on using the ppi since all my other amps are arts and I also have a couple of 3sixty.2's as processors

Posted By: pisddub
Date Posted: October 07, 2010 at 2:30 PM

FYI you guys are awesome thanks again