Speaker impedences

[Brooks Ellis <brooks@fortnet.org>]

>> Actually, if you wanted to , you could build a pseudo-surround system 
>> in your car by wiring four speakers like this:
>> 
>> From the positive terminal of the front outputs, you would wire like 
>> this (flow of power is from left to right, from + to -).
>> 
>> +___ +(spkr 1)- ___ +(spkr 2)- ___ +(spkr 3)- ___ +spkr 4)- ___ -

I do not see why this would do anything other than give you a 'pseudo-mono'
system. all of the speakers would do the exact same thing!


>I thought I had this set up so it would not load up the amplifier's 
>output and melt things - but Merlyn's post indicated I was wrong.  
>The fact that I got away with this for a while in a home stereo (at 
>low volumes) does not assure its safety.  So DON'T do it.

Well, if you wire them all to the same source, the impedence will be
something like, 16 ohms. I wouldn't worry about blowing your amp with that
MUCH restistance. If you wired them all in series, you might have to worry
about haveing too LITTLE resistance - 1 ohm! That would be fine, for a good
compitition amp, but not for say, a Bose system, or a Delta head unit/system.

If you were connecting them all to the head unit's amp, AND all of them
together...why?

Brooks