speaker series wiring

[timsherwood]

If you ever get confused about the positive and negative connections do a trial and error. If the cone pushes the opposite way on say outwards bass, you got them mixed up. Don't turn them up really loud but it doesn't hurt them at all

[Decorleon]

Great video, I've been adding new speakers to my 71 Oldsmobile Cutlass and had been running into problems this video and your other one cleared everything up. Thanks again

[deedogg]

Great video I have been trying to figure out how to build bipolar surround sound speakers I wanted to use 2 4inch 4ohm aftermarket car speakers with my 7.1 amp that takes a 8ohm load. This video did the trick thanks

[edwardweston]

this is one of he best discription for the past years now on speaker discription.... Good one mate

[eddievasquez-rax]

thanks! that made a lot of sense and i've watched a few other videos never quite making ends meet in my head.

[electromavin]

Wiring in Series is used more in a home speaker design than in a automotive project.. In general the impedance to shoot for in that application is 8 ohms, you can wire two 4 ohm speakers in series to get that 8 ohm circuit. Unlike parallel, wiring in series do not increase the power handling of the circuit, it remains the same..
In series you simply add the impedance's of the speakers together.

[johnnyplemons]

Yes, if each woofer is rated at 300 watts, wiring in series will not increase the power that they will handle. The circuit will remain a 300 watt circuit.
In order to increase the power of the circuit, you would need to put the woofer / drivers in parallel. If the same 300 watt drivers are put in parallel, then the wattage will increase to 600 watts, if you add a third 300 watt driver in parallel to the circuit, then it would increase to 900 watts.
Resistance also becomes a factor, be careful.

[SmokeStack]

I'm so glad you put this post up. I just bought a sound system for a model railroad display and was told to wire my two speakers in series. Had no clue how to do this. The only question I have is, do I need special wires for this? The speakers are 8ohm 1watt 3 inches.

[yoshiu]

yes that is true if u are wiring speakers to 1 ohm meaning positive and negative connections easy right. what he is talking about is home stereo when there are multiple channels and the speakers require resistence or ohms to run properly

[blastforyou]

if you use 4ohm car speakers in most home audio application you can "over drive" amp as the resistance is less in circuit. This may cause to trip circuit protector.

[johnnyplemons]

It would depend on the impedance you are trying to get? That is Series is adding Resistance values together, if you want to increase that resistance, then wire in series.

[johnnyplemons]

That statement would be true if you wired in Parallel, but not in series. Power in series remains the same, In parallel you have two paths or more for power to travel, but in series, it is a single path.

[johnnyplemons]

Sorry you are wrong. In series, the circuit power handling would remain the same. The two 200 watt speaker would still only handle 200 watts.
In parallel the two 200 watt speaker would handle a total of 400 watts across the circuit.

In series, there is no split, everything is inline. In parallel, there are at least two voltage paths, but in series, the voltage path is singular. Not sure if you don't have Parallel and Series backwards.

[sLyErtrrnt]

I'm just a beginner and what I don't understand is a power source. People say you can just strip your iPod headphones and just go positive to positive and negative to negative and then it's playing loud and everything, but when I do it I can barley hear anything it's really quiet cuz I need a power source or something

[petegreen]

wot can i say. ill tell you just it is very strate forword 2 speakers at 4 oms in parallel would give you 2 oms / 2 speakers in sek would give you 8 oms. TOP MAN could not put that better my self.

[KhoaNguyen-umsj]

Good tutorial mates, now I can add the extra speaker to my car. Cheer...

[MT-rgdm]

Why would you want to do this what’s the advantage to putting them and series what do I gain. And is it necessary for two speakers or is it strictly for multiple speakers

[yp]

I bought a Bluetooth chip with a built in amplifier that only has two channels out (right and left) but I wanted to hook two speakers per channel. Manufacturers recommend using with 8 ohm impedance so I was just going to wire two 4 ohm speakers in series per channel. My question though is this going to reduce quality or volume at all?

[dmnn]

no in parallel the voltage would be same on both speakers.
In series, the voltage would be split by 'voltage divider rule' (google).

[bautistaconcon]

I have 500wattst amplifier, it has 6 to 16 ohms on the output speaker's terminal, I want to connect 6 speakers per channel, how many ohms and watts of speaker should i used and how to connect them, thank you and more power, .