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Cabinet speaker questions (what to do about volume)
Cynicaster:
--- Quote from: Afterburner on December 31, 2011, 12:02:47 am ---Wow...that was a great write up. Thanks!
Another interesting question on speakers....
Today I scavenged a bunch of parts from a nice DLP TV that died prematurely. I got some nice looking speakers out of it and was thinking of using them in my cab.
There were two pairs of speakers. Each individual speaker is marked at 16ohms impedance. My current speaker set with the amplifier built into the subwoofer says the speakers should be 4 ohms or 8 ohms.
I used a multimeter and tested the 16ohm speakers and measured 7.3ohms each.
So now I'm wondering if each individual speaker is really 8 ohms and 16ohms for the pair. But each individual speaker coil is marked. I'm thinking I can't measure impedance the way I did it.
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Electrical is not my strong point, but it sounds like what you measured is resistance, not impedance. These are not the same thing.