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Get another 8ohm cab, 8ohm + 8ohm = 4ohm (unless wired in series which would yield 16 ohms but you don't have to worry about that), most Solid State heads will handle 4 or 8 ohms. Provide the model head you're using and we could probably help a bit more
Based on what little I could find online for that particular combo, you'd want another 300W 8ohm speaker cabinet. The head in that combo needs a minimum of 4ohm, which another 8 ohm speaker would provide. 8 ohm speaker in the combo + 8ohm speaker cabinet = 4ohm load to the head.
The 300W part isn't terribly important, be more concerned with the 8ohm part.
The 300W part isn't terribly important, be more concerned with the 8ohm part.
I was thinking that matching would be best idea. I just don't want to spend cash and blow it out. It would be easiest to get another TE cab, if I can get one a decent price.
Don't mean to derail, but I have a similar question. I have a Class D Traynor head SB500H and it has 2 speak connectors on the back, both are rated for 4ohms. So could I hook up 2 4 ohm, or 2 8 ohm cabs to this amp?
Two 8-ohm cabs. That amp is rated at 4 ohms, so two 8-ohm cabs will give you that. Two 4-ohm cabs would result in a 2-ohm load which would overtax your amp.
Ok it is making sense to me now. I thought it was 2 4 ohm channels, but it is just the one channel divided into outputs. Apparently the sales person misinformed me when I bought it. This makes me want to try and find another matching Epafini PS112 more than anything now. Because I am guessing that 2 of those should easily equal my 4 10 at 4ohms, then loose a lot extra weight.
Does that sound right? I have a hard time understanding this whole ohms thing. Back in the day I used a preamp going into a powered cab, and that was all I ever needed. Other than that its been mainly combos.Also out of the 36 years Ive been playing, most all of it except for the past 2 years have been home playing. So I never had the need to learn this stuff.
Generally if a combo can take another cabinet it will be equipped with an Extension speaker socket as mentioned in post #3. If it does not have such a socket then it’s almost guaranteed that the amp is fully loaded by the internal driver(s).
The back panel of the amp says "MIN(imum) 4 ohms. So you can run one 4 ohm cab OR two 8 ohm cabs.
you could run a 3 million watt rated cab not just one rated below 200 watts depending on the output power at 4 ohms, the watt rating on a speaker cab is the maximum power handling capacity of whatever cab you use not how much power it needs. You need to figure out how much power your amp puts out at 4 ohms, a SS amp will usually put out somewhere around 1.5 times what it does at 8, so you then take that, say it's 450 watts at 4 ohms and divide it by two as the cabs will split up the output power equally, so your cab should be somewhere around a minimum of 225 watts capacity. I would get a matching cab if the make them.
That's what I was thinking, but also wanted to look into a 4x10 to add some top end. Luckily, there are many used T.E. 15 cabs out there.
Adding a 4x10 to your 1x15 trace combo will cause a mismatch in how hard the single 15" speaker will work compared to the each of the four 10" speakers. Best to get another trace 1x15 or perhaps they made a 2x10 that mates well with their 1x15 cabs and combos? One 15" speaker and two 10"s have a very similar total speaker area this making a mismatch less drastic and potentially less damaging to te overmatched speaker(s).
