Three Mids wired to 2.4 ohm

[Colin - STAPUFT]

You could wire 4 speakers in series-parallel. That would give you your 2.4 ohm load with 4 speakers / 4 of your pairs....

That would leave you 2 more sets to wire in parallel for 4.8 ohms and 1 set to look pretty- or to use for backup.

[monkeyleg]

You could wire 4 speakers in series-parallel. That would give you your 2.4 ohm load with 4 speakers / 4 of your pairs....

That would leave you 2 more sets to wire in parallel for 4.8 ohms and 1 set to look pretty- or to use for backup.

For the love of God please explain that to me like I'm an infant, I NEED to know how to go about this.

The wiring aspect, example,

Speaker 1 - positive negative

........................|..........|..................

Speaker 2 - positive negative

........................|..........|..................

Speaker 3 - negative positive

Seriously, if I need to send you a PayPal gift, I will, I'm a desperate man.

[Colin - STAPUFT]

You could wire 4 speakers in series-parallel. That would give you your 2.4 ohm load with 4 speakers / 4 of your pairs....

That would leave you 2 more sets to wire in parallel for 4.8 ohms and 1 set to look pretty- or to use for backup.

For the love of God please explain that to me like I'm an infant, I NEED to know how to go about this.

LOL!!!

1st- are you SURE they are 2.4 ohm speakers? That is crazy to me. Do they each read that with the multimeter? Is there no sticker on them that gives the impedance?

Let me get a quick write up together and I will get right back....

[monkeyleg]

You could wire 4 speakers in series-parallel. That would give you your 2.4 ohm load with 4 speakers / 4 of your pairs....

That would leave you 2 more sets to wire in parallel for 4.8 ohms and 1 set to look pretty- or to use for backup.

For the love of God please explain that to me like I'm an infant, I NEED to know how to go about this.

LOL!!!

1st- are you SURE they are 2.4 ohm speakers? That is crazy to me. Do they each read that with the multimeter? Is there no sticker on them that gives the impedance?

Let me get a quick write up together and I will get right back....

Yeah man, ALL Polk MM series speakers are 2.7 Ohm, says so on the site, the box, and the speaker. (2.7 ohm is probably with the crossover and tweeter hooked up) The multimeter reads 2.4 ohm

[Guest]

manual says 2.7 ohms. regardless, strange impedance they chose...

manual for the lazy

http://www.polkaudio.com/downloads/manuals/car/MMFullRange_MN1618C.pdf

[Colin - STAPUFT]

http://www.jlaudio.com/header/Support/Tutorials/Wiring+Single+Voice+Coil+%28SVC%29+Subwoofer+Drivers/Tutorial%3A+Wiring+Single+Voice+Coil+%28SVC%29+Subwoofer+Drivers/287543

This will help...

For the 4 speakers: wire 2 sets this way- + to + and - to - = that will HALF the impedance (to 1.2 ohms)

that would give you 2 sets of Paralleled speakers.

Then- wire those two sets + to - = that will double that impedance (back to your 2.4 ohm load)

that Series the two sets together.

Hence- Series Parallel (or Parallel Series in this case)

For the 2 speakers: wire them + to - = again, that will double that impedance (to 4.8 ohm load)

Series.

No monies. :drinks:

[Colin - STAPUFT]

manual says 2.7 ohms. regardless, strange impedance they chose...

manual for the lazy

http://www.polkaudio.com/downloads/manuals/car/MMFullRange_MN1618C.pdf

That is CRAZY!!

MONKEYLEG- what are you going to do for crossovers (if you have them). Changing impedance does crazy things to Xover points....

[monkeyleg]

so this?

[Colin - STAPUFT]

Nope.

Give me a few minutes.... I will do a picture for you.

[monkeyleg]

manual says 2.7 ohms. regardless, strange impedance they chose...

manual for the lazy

http://www.polkaudio...nge_MN1618C.pdf

That is CRAZY!!

MONKEYLEG- what are you going to do for crossovers (if you have them). Changing impedance does crazy things to Xover points....

Here's the thing...I have no idea. This is my first time trying to wire more than one speaker to a channel. I assumed you couldn't run crossovers in parallel/series, so I was just going to run all the tweeters and all the mids separately and burned the crossovers at the cottage?

It would be awesome if I could run 3 sets of components (3 mids, 3 tweeters, 3 crossovers) off one channel or even bridged. Or just a 2 sets, whatever equals less purchasing of amps. BTW, running crescendo 1000.4.