Speakon servo subs

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Christof

Speakon servo subs
« on: 25 Jul 2008, 04:50 pm »
I'm on the home stretch with the subwoofer project, which consists of 4 subs driven by 2 servo amps (located in separate chasis boxes).  I am entertaining the idea of using Speakon connections throughout but am a bit puzzled when it comes to wiring everything together.

Below is a diagram that may aid in explanation.  Assume the red dots are servo input/output and the blue dots are signal in/out...there should be two sets of blue and red dots dots on subs 1 and 4 which I assume should be 2pole connectors.  Should there be two sets of red dots on subs 2 and 3?





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Re: Speakon servo subs
« Reply #1 on: 25 Jul 2008, 05:12 pm »
Is your plan using 8 ohm drivers wired in parallel per side?  Correction... The servo must be run in SERIES  (oops)
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What makes it a little confusing is because when you buy the amps and select the 2 driver model (for +$10), they add a little adapter board with red and black wires, these are color coded to match how you attach them to the drivers, but they have ALREADY put those wire leads in series... SORRY.

This why it is almost inevitable you wire one driver incorrectly when you have 3 drivers, with 1 inverted.

SORRY.
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Re: Speakon servo subs
« Reply #2 on: 28 Jul 2008, 12:34 am »
Is your plan using 8 ohm drivers wired in parallel per side?  Correction... The servo must be run in SERIES  (oops)

Are you saying that the servo must be run in series, but the drivers themselves can be run either parallel or in series?  So, one can wire two 8 ohm drivers as either 4 ohm or 16 ohm.

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Re: Speakon servo subs
« Reply #3 on: 28 Jul 2008, 12:42 am »
Are you saying that the servo must be run in series, but the drivers themselves can be run either parallel or in series?  So, one can wire two 8 ohm drivers as either 4 ohm or 16 ohm.

Well, I think they said that the amp works optimally with a 4 ohm load. You wouldn't want to run it at 16...

Danny Richie

Re: Speakon servo subs
« Reply #4 on: 28 Jul 2008, 01:22 am »
You have to run the sensing coils in series and the driver coils in parallel.

So you can daisy chain the connections from one woofer to the other or you can run them all make to the amp box and connect them properly there. Either way is fine.