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If you take a set of speakers (car speakers in this instance), and wire them to the wiring of existing speakers by splicing, what will happen to the output of the amp?

For example, say a 25W RMS x 4, but you splice two speakers to the rears. Would it then be 25 W RMS for the fronts but then 12.5 RMS for each of the now 4 rears?

REASON: I don't like the imaging of my Bose system. I have two tweeters sitting around and would like to splice them into the existing wiring and mount them say...in the A pillars (custom mounting).

The weird thing is that the system I pulled them from has 4 ohm speakers all around, but the tweeters say 8 ohm and 9W on the back. I know the Bose system is 2ohms.

TriumphTheInsultDog

http://www.gcaudio.com/resources/howtos/spkramp.html

http://www.termpro.com/articles/spkrz.html

if you take the time to read them, you'll walk away with your answers

CURSH[silverbullet]

As to what happens? the wattage is split, but I have no idea what the wattage would be. Parallell divides the number so. You have an 8ohm tweeter and a 4 ohm door speaker (mine is 3 ohm IIRC so check to be sure) so to find final Ohmage multiply the load (ohms) together (32) then divide by the sum of the same loads (12) you are left with the remaining Load (2 2/3 Ohms) Now if you want to test your Amp at that load, good luck. I dont know what it is rated.

Now Hypothetically, if you dont blow your amp, you will be getting better power (an amp rated at 100 watts @ 4ohms will usually get 200watts @ 2 ohms (it varies due to construction of the amp) So if you are getting 25 watts on 4 ohms you should get something like 37.5 Watts total, or ~ 19 watts per speaker.

Now I dont know, but IIRC you could mess around with resistors and push most of the power to the speakers (maybe even the whole 25 you had, leaving 13 on the tweats.)

But that is a whole nother lesson for a whole nother day.

de (-eeez_nutz)

impedence...ohmage...same thing