Amp to Speaker Watts

[Ranjan Gardner]

Hi My Dear Bass Buddies
I have a Peavy mini max amp which is rated @ 500 watts @ 4 ohms
it has 2 outputs for speakers which say parallel.
can I connect 2 8 ohm speakers to it ?

 

[basscooker]

Yes

 

[Blackjac97]

Yes

Calculating ohms for parallel is product over sum.

8 x 8 = 64

8 +8 = 16

64/16 = 4 ohms

You want to pay attention to wattage too, and make sure the amp isn't feeding too many wats to the speakers, but in terms of resistance alone, answer is yes.

 

[Ranjan Gardner]

Thanks Guys.

 

[abarson]

Yes

Calculating ohms for parallel is product over sum.

8 x 8 = 64

8 +8 = 16

64/16 = 4 ohms

You want to pay attention to wattage too, and make sure the amp isn't feeding too many wats to the speakers, but in terms of resistance alone, answer is yes.

Interesting. I've never seen the math done that way. I learned it's the reciprocal of the numbers.

1/8 + 1/8 = 1/x
0.125 + 0.125 = 1/x
1/0.25 = x
4 = x

 

[Jaco who?]

Interesting. I've never seen the math done that way. I learned it's the reciprocal of the numbers.

1/8 + 1/8 = 1/x
0.125 + 0.125 = 1/x
1/0.25 = x
4 = x

Reciprocal method ALWAYS works though. Product over sum with more than two cabs doesn't work worth a damn.