Hi Al,
Thanks for all your inputs and help. The zeros are installed yesterday and they are great. To take care of the 8 ohm vs 4 ohm problem, I think I've found the ultimate solution. The 3 ohm resistor would reduce 50 watts of power (directly only to this speaker) to reduce to about 16 watts, which is not what I want. If all the other 8 ohm drives receives 25 watts, I want this 4 ohm to receive 25 watts also. Therefore, I will install a 1.5 ohm resistor which increases the power transfer to about 25-27.5 watt given the error tolerance of 5% on the resistor, which is reasonably close.
The new damping factor for this drive will be 2.5 and with the zero's 4x setting, this damping factor should go up to 10 or so, which is again, reasonably acceptable.
Is my analysis correct?
Thanks,
Ryan
Thanks for all your inputs and help. The zeros are installed yesterday and they are great. To take care of the 8 ohm vs 4 ohm problem, I think I've found the ultimate solution. The 3 ohm resistor would reduce 50 watts of power (directly only to this speaker) to reduce to about 16 watts, which is not what I want. If all the other 8 ohm drives receives 25 watts, I want this 4 ohm to receive 25 watts also. Therefore, I will install a 1.5 ohm resistor which increases the power transfer to about 25-27.5 watt given the error tolerance of 5% on the resistor, which is reasonably close.
The new damping factor for this drive will be 2.5 and with the zero's 4x setting, this damping factor should go up to 10 or so, which is again, reasonably acceptable.
Is my analysis correct?
Thanks,
Ryan