Eden Cabinet Ohms...

[lakedmb]

I have been looking at moving to Eden cabs, specifically the Eden 410XLT and the 215XLT. The specs say that the Ohms for these cabs is 4 or 8 Ohms. Then they give the watts, 700 for the 410 and 400 for the 215.

Will the watts change according to the ohms?

I would think that it would, but I'm not finding that information anywhere....

Thanks.

[IvanMike]

no it wont.

if you think of them as engines, you can think of watts as the maximum speed the cab can go, and the ohms as the amount of resistance to the fuel pressure from any given fuel source - more resistance to the pressure means the engine can only go so fast as it only gets so much "juice"

In real life, the RMS wattage rating is the max wattage the cabinet can handle, and the ohms represent the impedance to current sent by an amplifier.

The only time ohms effect watts is when you are using an amplifier that puts out X amounts of watts into a 4 ohm "load" - when using it with an 8 ohm load the amp will put out less than "X" watts into that load.

[lbwdog]

No, your amp will deliver a little more power to a 4 Ohm cab, but the speakers power handling doesn't change. Actually, wattage ratings for cabs are pretty meaningless anyway.

[lakedmb]

So the 410xlt can handle 700w from an amp putting out 700w at 4 ohms or 700w at 8 ohms, right?

[BassmanPaul]

If you are planning on using both, your amp MUST be able to drive a 2Ω load.

A 4x10 + 1x15 is not a good match but in this case it would be workable as the 4x10 will receive twice the power of the 1x15. Two identical cabinets is always the best pairing.

[GrowlerBox]

Originally Posted by lakedmb

So the 410xlt can handle 700w from an amp putting out 700w at 4 ohms or 700w at 8 ohms, right?

It may not be able to handle either. Thermal ratings as given by cab manufacturers refer to the point at which the drivers suffer "heat death" -- they will fart, complain, and eventually crap out well before this, typically at around half the thermal rating. To all intents and purposes, ignore the cabinet rating, listen to what it's doing while you're playing through it, and if you can't get loud enough, you need more speakers, not a "higher rated" cabinet.