Resonant Alien
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Hoping someone can sanity check this for me.
Let's say I wanted to run my 8ohm TM 212 and another 16ohm 2x12 simultaneously. I plug one cab into one of the jacks on my head and the other cab in the other jack on my head. This wires the 2 cabs in parallel.
A 16 ohm cab and a 8 ohm cab wired in parallel presents a load of 5.3333 ohm to the amp. So, I would need to run the amp at the 4 ohm setting (this is confirmed in the Renegade manual).
However, if I do this, the 8ohm cab will receive twice the power from the amp as the 16ohm cab (ohm's law baby). I assume this would make the 8ohm cab louder than the 16ohm cab and it would tend to dominate the overall tone.
I don't really like this, so I was thinking about how to convert my TM 212 to a 16 ohm cab. (I mean 16ohm mono - TM212 can run 16 ohm, but only one speaker at a time or in stereo mode).
I think if I put two 8 ohm speakers in the TM, and then instead of wiring both speakers into the connection plate, just wire one speaker to the connection plate and and piggy-back the other speaker by jumpering it directly to the other posts on the first speaker, this should put them in series, which would result in a total of 16 ohms, right? Then I could run both cabs with the amp set at 8 ohm, and both cabs would get equal power, right??
Thanks in advance.
Rick
Let's say I wanted to run my 8ohm TM 212 and another 16ohm 2x12 simultaneously. I plug one cab into one of the jacks on my head and the other cab in the other jack on my head. This wires the 2 cabs in parallel.
A 16 ohm cab and a 8 ohm cab wired in parallel presents a load of 5.3333 ohm to the amp. So, I would need to run the amp at the 4 ohm setting (this is confirmed in the Renegade manual).
However, if I do this, the 8ohm cab will receive twice the power from the amp as the 16ohm cab (ohm's law baby). I assume this would make the 8ohm cab louder than the 16ohm cab and it would tend to dominate the overall tone.
I don't really like this, so I was thinking about how to convert my TM 212 to a 16 ohm cab. (I mean 16ohm mono - TM212 can run 16 ohm, but only one speaker at a time or in stereo mode).
I think if I put two 8 ohm speakers in the TM, and then instead of wiring both speakers into the connection plate, just wire one speaker to the connection plate and and piggy-back the other speaker by jumpering it directly to the other posts on the first speaker, this should put them in series, which would result in a total of 16 ohms, right? Then I could run both cabs with the amp set at 8 ohm, and both cabs would get equal power, right??
Thanks in advance.
Rick
. I think I would need to connect the + side of one speaker to the TM plate, connect the - side of the other speaker to the TM plate, and then jumper the - side of the first speaker to the + side of the second speaker. Methinks this would work...