Speaker and amp ohm mismatch

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I was playing my Soldano for about 2 1/2 hours on about 3 volume. When I was done I noticed that the speaker cable was plugged into the 16 ohms jack and plugged into the 4 ohms on the cabinet. Does this damage the amp? or Cabinet? It seems to be fine.
 
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I was playing my Soldano for about 2 1/2 hours on about 3 volume. When I was done I noticed that the speaker cable was plugged into the 16 ohms jack and plugged into the 4 ohms on the cabinet. Does this damage the amp? or Cabinet? It seems to be fine.
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It can most certainly damage it! If it seems fine it probably is but DON'T DO IT AGAIN!
 
It well not hurt the cab. You can melt a tranny that way, Mike over builds with one persent tolarance. lot's of amp five or more. That's what he told me in his shop. And that puts alot of wear on the tubes, if the juice can't go forward it goes back into the amp. Same with not using a speaker cord. I've done it myself, probly going to be fine. ;)
 
somebody told me 4 and 16 is the same thing once. ive never tested that theory. this was a decent source to not just a random hobo on the street raving about amps.
 
haha that was my first post here since joining from HCAF =D
 
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