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Speaker hookup chart


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If you wire two 8 ohm speakers in series you end up with 16 ohms total load.
If you wire two 8 ohm speakers in parallel you end up with a 4 ohm load.

If you wire four 8 ohm speakers in Series/Parallel you end up with an 8 ohm load. It works this way.
Two 8 ohm speakers in parallel = 4 ohms and you have two sets of parallel speakers so you have two 4 ohm loads. Those 4 ohm loads are now added together in series and so you are back to an 8 ohm total load.


Capacitor hook up diagram
Filter cap hook up diagram
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Two 100uf/350v caps in series = 50uf at 700volt working voltage
Two 20uf/500v caps in parallel = 40uf at 500volt working voltage


How to decipher capacitor codes
Example: 472 is a 4 and a 7 with 2 zeros after and that = 4700
Now go six places to the left, adding zeros if necessary = .004700
Drop the two zero's on the right end = .0047
Code Add zero's Go 6 places left uf Pico
101 100 .000100 .0001uf 100p
121 120 .000120 .00012uf 120p
251 250 .000250 .00025uf 250p
391 390 .000390 .00039uf 390p
501 500 .000500 .0005uf 500p
102 1000 .001000 .001uf 1000p
222 2200 .002200 .0022uf 2200p
332 3300 .003300 .0033uf 3300p
472 4700 .004700 .0047uf 4700p
682 6800 .006800 .0068uf 6800p
103 10000 .010000 .01uf -
223 22000 .022000 .022uf -
333 33000 .033000 .033uf -
473 47000 .047000 .047uf -
104 100000 .100000 .1uf -



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