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Many ohms is 3 8 ohm cabs?


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Hello

 

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I couldent find anything explaining it on the forum.

 

 

If I have 3 x 8 ohm cabs a side how many ohms is that per side?

 

also how much power would I be getting per channel from a yamaha p7000 at that ohmage?

 

 

Thanks, Gethin.

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2 & two thirds

 

1/8 + 1/8 + 1/8 = 1/Total impedance. (The 8s being the value for each speaker)

 

You can extend this for as many speakers as you want, putting in 4 or 16 for different speakers.

 

When all speakers are the same this simplifies to impedance/number of speakers. 8/3 in this case.

 

By the looks of it that amp only goes that low in bridged mode, so you'll need two of them if you have six cabs.

 

Sorry got that bit wrong! See later posts.

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... and whether you wire in series or parallel!

True. However, I have nerver ever seen series wiring between two (or more) different cabs except in small fixed installs. Also with 3 cabs, there is no useful way of doing it even if you wanted to.

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So it would be running at 2.6ish ohms?

 

it says on the p7000 data sheet that it can do 1600 + 1600 @ 2 ohm stereo, 1khz.

 

is there a way of figuring out how much it would do at 2.6 ohms?

 

 

I'm not sure of the thickness of my speaker wires. theyre not that thick tho,

cables are about 10m - How much will this affect ohms + power?

 

 

I think it'll be set up in parallel. its just goin out the back of 1 cab into the other.

 

 

Thanks guys

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But the OP didn't mention cable, just the impedance, and that is calculated how Mark says.

 

We could say it depends on the enclosure type, size, and the frequency being played, we could bring temperature into it. Then again we could say 2 and 2 thirds, as that answers the question.

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Also says 1100 + 1100 at 4 ohms. My guess is about 1400 at 2.67

 

Actually, it does 1100 into 4 only at 1kHz and with THD+N=1% and on a stiff mains supply.

 

Under more appropriate test conditions (20Hz-20kHz THD+N=0.1%) it should deliver about 950W / channel into 4Ohms and 650W / channel into 8. That's for the strangely labeled "European model".

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