SI T-Amp 2 ohm load

[edjosh23]

I have a SI T-amp waiting for me at home, along with all the parts needed to do the neccisary mods. I am in the process of building a pair of bipolar Onken style enclosures for 4ohm speakers. I was wondering if I could wire the drivers in parallel if the series restistance of the speaker wire was more than 2 ohms (it will probably be more like 4 ohms)?

Thanks,

Josh

 

[BWRX]

The SI can handle a 4ohm load but it will get much warmer than with an 8ohm load. A 2ohm load will be problematic unless you only listen at very low volume levels.

A length of speaker wire would need to be very long or have a very small gauge in order to have a resistance of 2 ohms.

You'd probably be better off using two amps, one per driver, sending each amp the same input signal.

 

[edjosh23]

Brian,

thanks for the responce, I'll check the resistance, but I'm pretty positive it is more than 2ohms. I use cat 5, no not single strands, I do 4.

Not sure if I told you, but I did buy the soldering iron you recommended, I've only gotten to use it to build a mic preamp. But it seems very nice. Much, much nicer than my radio shack iron. I also decided to get the soldering tweezers too.

Thanks,

Josh