Diagram Of Parallel Speaker
Parallel circuits are the simplest electrical circuit to wire.
Diagram of parallel speaker. This diagram shows 2 dvc woofers with dual 2 ohm voice coils. You can calculate for more speakers by changing the input. For example in the above diagrams if each speaker is 8 ohms then the total load impedance would be 8 divided by 4 which equals 2 ohms. If you were using 4 100 watt speakers you have 400 watts power handling.
The formular for series wiring is. If each speaker is the same impedance it is easy to calculate the total load impedance of speakers in parallel. For example the diagram below shows you how you can turn a pair of 8w speakers into either a 16w or a 4w load. Simply divide the individual speaker impedance by the number of speakers.
2 16 ohm speakers in parallel would give you an 8 ohm cabinet. For multiple dual voice coil speakers you will need to decide which way you will wire the coils on each speaker either series or parallel. If the front and rear speakers are all on separate leftright and frontrear channels from the factory radio then yes you can use two 4 ohm speakers in parallel in the place of each original 2 ohm speaker. In this case we recommend choosing two 16 ohm speakers with rated power of at least 50w each.
The coils of each speaker are wired in parallel which makes each speaker a 1 ohm speaker and then all of the drivers are wired in parallel for a total of a 5 ohm load. If you wire 4 16 ohm speakers in parallel you would have a 4 ohm cabinet. You will simply series two sets of two speakers and then wire one group of two speakers in parallel with the other group of two speakers. This type of wiring allows you to increase the number of speakers you can use in your system.
Gradually increase the volume control of the amplifier until the music is just louder that you would normally want it. Of a single speaker. The best method for setting up a system with speaker volume controls is. Four 4 ohm speakers 4 ohm load four 8 ohm speakers 8 ohm load four 16 ohm speakers 16 ohm load.
This is the position for the amplifier volume control. Turn all the speaker volume controls all the way up. Since there are two speakers each speaker could experience 25w half the output power from the amp. Or two 16w speakers in parallel.