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Message started by Barrie on 04/23/07 at 21:43:08

Title: New House Wrecker
Post by Barrie on 04/23/07 at 21:43:08

Just finished my HW cabinet yesterday. Will be installing the drivers this evening. I've got four 15", dual voice-coil speakers and I'm wondering if there are any recommendations as to how to wire them.

If I parallel each shelf-pair, that will be 4 ohms. Then, if I series the two pairs, I will be back to eight ohms. Or, I could series all four speakers and end up with 32 ohms.

I will have terminals on the outside of the HW box for each speaker, so it will be easy to change the configuration.

Any recommendations?

Barrie, Missoula, Montana

Title: Re: New House Wrecker
Post by Adrian on 04/23/07 at 21:56:50

the recommendations depend on what amp you're going to power it with.
what amp do you have for your HW ?

Title: Re: New House Wrecker
Post by Barrie on 04/23/07 at 22:21:18

The amp is quite old, probably 25 years, at least. It's an ESS, made for Heil when he was building the big cabinets with 2 each 12' and the Heil air-transformers.

One channel of this amp seems to drive my WO-32 quite well.

Barrie

Title: Re: New House Wrecker
Post by 60_and_up on 04/24/07 at 02:33:42

Barrie wrote on 04/23/07 at 22:21:18:

32 is very efficient.

Title: Re: New House Wrecker
Post by Adrian on 04/24/07 at 16:31:44

do you plan to bridge the amp ?
i assume it's stable down to 4 ohms in stereo. so if you bridge it, i'd wire the subs for a final load of 8 ohms :)