Having a Brain Fart. Need Help Wiring a Cab.

[Fender4Me]

Can someone please post a simple drawing for me ? I need to re-wire a 4x10 8 ohm cab to 16 ohms. Each speaker is 4 ohms. My brain is not working tonight : ) Thanks!

[skychief]

series wiring (+ of 1 spkr to - of the next)

[billfitzmaurice]

Originally Posted by Fender4Me

I need to re-wire a 4x10 8 ohm cab to 16 ohms. Each speaker is 4 ohms.

If you have an 8 ohm 4x10 the drivers are not 4 ohm.

[ChasBass]

Originally Posted by skychief

series wiring (+ of 1 spkr to - of the next)

+1, if they are, in fact, 4 ohms.

How was it wired originally?

[voodoobassist]

This page should give you some options. Jumbo Sunshade - Speaker Wiring Diagrams

[skychief]

Something like this. (4-ohm X 4 = 16 ohm)

[Fender4Me]

Thanks everyone!

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by Fender4Me

Can someone please post a simple drawing for me ? I need to re-wire a 4x10 8 ohm cab to 16 ohms. Each speaker is 4 ohms. My brain is not working tonight : ) Thanks!

You can't rewire an 8-ohm cab to 16 ohms. As Bill mentioned, either the cab is not an 8-ohm cab, or the drivers are not 4-ohm drivers. You should resolve that issue before you proceed.

[washburn_it]

Speakers in a 4x10 are usually wired "series-parallel" and this give a total impedance equal to the impedance of a single speaker:
8+8 //(<-parallel) 8+8 gives a total of 8 ohm or
8 //8 + 8 //8 still gives 8 ohm.

So what you want to do is not possible unless you change the speakers (or you use only two speakers wired in series).

Regards,

Roberto