Driver Attenuation Circuit what watt resistor to use?

[noahtheviking]

I have a 100w pch amp running a 3way speaker setup per channel running 2nd order crossovers I need to take the midrange down 3db I am making a fixed driver attenuation circuit I already have the ohms etc. but I need to know what watt resistors to use I am going to try 10w resistors but wasnt sure if that was enough. I know the amp is 100w pch but the woofer takes up most of the power so that being said would two 10watt resistors be enough for a 50w rms midrange. this is a fixed l-pad driver attenuation circuit. Thanks

[ianpengelly]

10W will be more than adequate, as you are only disappating some of the energy that would have reached the mid-range driver, not all 100W from the amp at max power :-)

[noahtheviking]

thanks for the reply.

cheers