Figuring out the Load of 6.5" Components
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Forum Name: Car Audio
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Topic: Figuring out the Load of 6.5" Components
Posted By: bayareastereo
Subject: Figuring out the Load of 6.5" Components
Date Posted: June 09, 2004 at 6:46 PM
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? Thanks for any info you have.
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Posted By: stevdart
Date Posted: June 09, 2004 at 9:18 PM
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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Posted By: auex
Date Posted: June 09, 2004 at 9:56 PM
^^^ That is correct, though simply put.
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Posted By: bayareastereo
Date Posted: June 11, 2004 at 3:59 PM
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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