I have an elan z660 with minumum 8 ohm load per channel indicated. It's been shut down for probably 5 years due to damage to my speakers by my dogs when they were babies. I decided to fire it back up since one of my Polk monitors is still good and figured why not get the owner's manual? Well, it turns out that I had no idea whatsoever How to use the bridging function Or how to wire my speakers to it correctly the first place. I don't think I damaged it because it still works and I never noticed any obvious clipping.. My question is how the hell should I hook up The monitor fives and the acoustics while running bridging mode? If I hit the bus switch, all six channels fire up, So if I only wire each set of speakers to 4 of the channels, that Will leave two of the channels receiving signal and presumably pushing output with nothing connected to them. I hope this makes sense. I'm going to include a picture as it's currently set up with just one speaker at 6 ohms in bridging mode, sounds good for now. I guess it's not as simple as just connecting all 4 speakers to the plugs in the back, LOL.
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This is the general set up that I'm trying to achieve, but with 4 speakers total and from one input source(Bluetooth audio device) Which requires you to activate the bus mode button to distribute channels 1 and 2 across all outputs. Frankly i'm confused at this point🤣 Maybe I could just add an 8 ohm subwoofer To the third channel, and that would be an easy fix with the other 4 speakers run in series, right?
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Well, I feel like an idiot now for anybody who read all this. I cannot figure out how to delete the post. I really did not understand the bridging mode. And now that I do, it's pretty clear how to hook up four speakers.. Activate bridge mode hook up left and right to inputs one and three And run my speakers as pairs in series to those 2 correlating channels, leaving the third inactive, Not hitting the bus mode button. Sorry if you read this but I figured this crap out at four in the morning lol
If it puts your mind at ease, we can close this one. New thread here - https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/elan-z660-broken-speaker-out.418630/
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