highwayone Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 I know this has been covered before somewhere but I couldn't find it! I'm looking at a couple of cabs and one is rated 600w and the other 250w both at 8 ohms. What would the wattage be that they could handle for these either connected in serial or parallel? My brains fried 😂😣 cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dood Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 (edited) The impedance will drop down to 4 Ohms in parallel and up to 16 Ohms in series. The wattage is best described, to simplify things, as being the lower of the two values to be safe. Or to put it another way, I wouldn't want to throw a full 600W signal at a 250W rated speaker for too long. Though in reality this (a constant 600W signal) rarely happens. Edited April 16, 2018 by dood 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Starr Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 If they are the same ohms then they will share the power equally. That means the total handling is twice the handling of the lowest wattage cab, in this case 250W so 500W in total. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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