At one time I had a diagram on how to wire a 'series cable' for externally hooking two 4 ohm cabs in a series to make an 8 ohm stack ... I can no longer find it, can someone please direct me to some place that sells a decent quality pre-made cable or a diagram on how to wire one for myself and maybe where to find a nice oversize female 1/4" plug to fit it all in ?? .. thank you
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Series Cable ??
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I'm assuming you want to plug into one cab, and then daisy chain to the second, but have the two cabs in series?
If that is the case, you wire the tip terminal of cab one's input jack to the speaker's + terminal, then you connect the - terminal to the tip terminal of cab one's output jack.
The sleeve terminals of both jacks get grounded.
Cab two is wired normally, with the tip terminal of it's input jack to the + terminal of the speaker, and the sleeve terminal to the - terminal of the speaker.
If that is the case, you wire the tip terminal of cab one's input jack to the speaker's + terminal, then you connect the - terminal to the tip terminal of cab one's output jack.
The sleeve terminals of both jacks get grounded.
Cab two is wired normally, with the tip terminal of it's input jack to the + terminal of the speaker, and the sleeve terminal to the - terminal of the speaker.
Didn't really understand, but you can get TRS (stereo) jacks that divide into 2 TS (mono) jacks. Or if your amp doesn't have a stereo output (one female output for 2 channels), which it probably wont, just chop a TS cable up and wire up 2 TS jack ends.
Hope this helps, once again, your query wasn't too clear to me.
peace
Hope this helps, once again, your query wasn't too clear to me.
peace
Thanks guys ... sorry my explanation was confusing, but Munji has exactly what I need in the drawing and photo with the 1/4" plugs ... only shorter .. in my question I was using a 1/4" JACK where he has the splices, and then short cable leads to the cabs ... but actually his way is cheaper and simpler .. what I was after was doubling the impedance (series), not reducing it (parallel), externally ... thanks again!!
interesting ... I did not know that .. in this case, they are both 4 ohms, so I will be doubling to make the stack 8 ohms, but if I had a 4 ohm and an 8 ohm it would be 12 ohms then? and how would the power to that stack be distributed? each get the same or the 4 ohm 2x the power?
tjh said:
In series both cabs have the same current flowing through them so the 8 ohm cab gets twice the power of the 4 ohm.
Contrast this with an 8-ohm and a 4-ohm cab in parallel (2.67-ohm load). In that case, the 4-ohm cab gets twice the current and twice the power.
