another ohm question...

[SatansEnemy]

yes i know sorry

i was reading over the sticky threads...

 

i have an amp that can handle a 2ohm load

my 4x10 is an 8ohm load

my understanding is that i could run 4 of my 4x10 cabs on my amp, and it would see a 2 ohm load out of my 4 cabs. correct?

ok by pulling a 2ohm load on my amp i get 500 watts out of it.

 

now the question...

does each cab get a 1/4 of the watts, being 125 watts a piece?

or would they all get to pull 500 watts a piece?

 

im thinking it would be that each would pull 125 watts, but i dont know, which is the reason for the question.

 

thanks.

[tylytle]

Not 500 apiece. You will have the 500 split up between the 4 cabs. Will sound loud due to the number of speakers.

 

Ty

[boseengineer]

Originally posted by SatansEnemy yes i know sorry i was reading over the sticky threads... i have an amp that can handle a 2ohm load my 4x10 is an 8ohm load my understanding is that i could run 4 of my 4x10 cabs on my amp, and it would see a 2 ohm load out of my 4 cabs. correct?

correct

ok by pulling a 2ohm load on my amp i get 500 watts out of it. now the question... does each cab get a 1/4 of the watts, being 125 watts a piece? or would they all get to pull 500 watts a piece? im thinking it would be that each would pull 125 watts, but i dont know, which is the reason for the question. thanks.

Each cab would get 125 Watt apiece. The spec sheet of the amp will tell you what you get if you run a single 8 Ohm cab. It'll probably be a little more than 125 Watt but not much more.

[SatansEnemy]

yeah an 8ohm load outta my carvin 1000 (yes i know, but i love the sound, its very loud, and i havent had any problems with it the past 4 years that i have had it, Oh and it was cheap!!!) anyway

an 8ohm load pulls 225/225watts

4ohm load pulls 350/350watts

2ohm load pulls 500/500watts

 

and i thank you all very much for the info

 

 

[miles to go]

Originally posted by SatansEnemy yeah an 8ohm load outta my carvin 1000 (yes i know, but i love the sound, its very loud, and i havent had any problems with it the past 4 years that i have had it, Oh and it was cheap!!!) anyway an 8ohm load pulls 225/225watts 4ohm load pulls 350/350watts 2ohm load pulls 500/500watts and i thank you all very much for the info

 

Hold the phone. That Carvin is a stereo amp, isn't it? The numbers being thrown around would be only using one side of the amp. If you got a second 8-ohm cab, you could power it off of the other side of the amp for a total of 450w (225w into each cab). With four cabs, you could put two on each side for 2x350w (175w into each cab).

 

You could bridge the amp and get 700w into a single 8 ohm load or 1000w into a single 4 ohm load. Don't bridge that amp into a 2 ohm load.

 

I used to power a pair of 8 ohm cabs with a Carvin DPC1000, which is essentially the same power section. I had the best results putting a single cab on each side of the amp. It was plenty loud and the amp didn't seem to work too hard.

[Deville]

Good call, Miles.

Per Carvin, bridging that amp makes it stable down to 4 ohms with 1000 watts, so you can only use two 8 ohm cabs with it that way.

I don't care what Carvin says though... running balls to the wall bridged at 4 ohms will send that amp into protection in a hurry, so stereo is a smarter way to go.

 

Running in stereo, you essentially have two amps that can push 500 watts @ 2 ohms. You can run a hell of a lot more cabs this way and be louder, but running any Carvin amp @ 2 ohms is dangerous stuff.

 

In summary...

 

Based on what I know about Carvin amps, it is smarter to run that amp in stereo, with neither side running any lower than 4 ohms.

[SatansEnemy]

 

Originally posted by miles to go Hold the phone. That Carvin is a stereo amp, isn't it? The numbers being thrown around would be only using one side of the amp. If you got a second 8-ohm cab, you could power it off of the other side of the amp for a total of 450w (225w into each cab). With four cabs, you could put two on each side for 2x350w (175w into each cab). You could bridge the amp and get 700w into a single 8 ohm load or 1000w into a single 4 ohm load. Don't bridge that amp into a 2 ohm load. I used to power a pair of 8 ohm cabs with a Carvin DPC1000, which is essentially the same power section. I had the best results putting a single cab on each side of the amp. It was plenty loud and the amp didn't seem to work too hard.

 

 

yeah, i understand this...

so no problem guys. I have a 4x10 8ohm cab running on one amp, and an 18" 4ohm cab running on the other. I was just making sure that i would be able to put atleast one more 4x10 on it.