2 ohm wiring question

No.

The way that I would say it is that I wired the four 8 ohm speakers in parallel for a net impedance of 2 ohms.

 

Parallel wiring is just "daisy chaining" positive to positive and negative to negative until you have all the speakers connected. Four 8 ohm speakers wired this way will put the cabinet at two ohms.

 

For parallel wiring, there is no "end" of the chain. All positives are the same, all negatives are the same. You could run the input jack off the 2nd or 3rd speaker, no difference.

 

Right. It doesn't matter which speaker you start with, as long as they are all connected pos to pos and neg to neg.

 

Did it FLY or FRY? BOB

 

Yes!

Paul

 

There is no output, only signal and ground. BTW, you're total output capability probably won't change by a noticeable amount. It will be louder at a given setting of the amp master volume, but an eighht of a turn higher would make up for that. You might get an additional 2dB broadband output, not an earthshaking amount by any means. Adding a second identical cab, OTOH, would have given you another 6dB.

 

I think by "input" and "output" he means the parallel jacks on the cabinet that allow connection of multiple cabs without splitter boxes or Y-cables.

The answer is that the "input" and "output" on the cab are completely interchangable in this context. They are identical jacks wired in parallel, so take your pick.

Reid

 

If you have two inputs on one cab,
you can run one to the amp, and another to a second cab.

It's the only way I'd do a full stack with guitar.

 

It is quite rare for me to find a mistake in one of Bill's postings.

Reid