Reducing Ohm’s

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Topic: Reducing Ohm’s

Posted By: kylewest1320
Subject: Reducing Ohm’s
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 8:52 PM

Is there a way to reduce each speaker's Ohm from a set of componet's from 4 Ohm's to 2 Ohm's, but not by running them in parrallel? Or is there a way to run each set in parrallel but keep the Ohm's at 4?

Thank you

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Posted By: Flakman
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 8:58 PM

Are you not using the crossover unit that came with the speakers? If you used the crossover, it would have each set @ 4 ohms (typically). What exactly are you working with and what are you trying to accomplish?

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Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 8:59 PM

You can use a dummy load to do it but there is no advantage to it. You might have the amp putting out more power at two ohms but the dummy load is gonna take half of it anyways and the distortion is gonna go up so its not a good Idea.

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Posted By: kylewest1320
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 9:02 PM

Well I have a Zapco 360.4 amp which puts out 50x4 @ 4 ohm's rms or It will put out 90x4 @ 2 ohm's. I have 2 sets of Diamond Audio Hex s600a componets that I would like to run at least 90w to each speaker.

Thanks

Posted By: Flakman
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 9:11 PM

You would want to run them in parallel. Ravendarat is right, if you used a linear transformer, it would use up half your power, putting yourself right back where you were at 45 watts of total power per channel actually hitting your speakers.

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I feel strange. I have deja vu and amnesia at the same time.

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Posted By: kylewest1320
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 9:23 PM

Thanks

Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 10:10 PM

kylewest1320 wrote:

Is there a way to reduce each speaker's Ohm from a set of componet's from 4 Ohm's to 2 Ohm's, but not by running them in parrallel? Or is there a way to run each set in parrallel but keep the Ohm's at 4?

No, and no.

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Posted By: coppellstereo
Date Posted: July 22, 2006 at 2:21 PM

Yeah, these are great speakers and you wouldnt want to limit their quality like this. just run them stereo

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