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Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: Ledvedder on November 04, 2022, 10:42:21 am

Title: 5e3 - alternate speaker jack wiring?
Post by: Ledvedder on November 04, 2022, 10:42:21 am

Are there alternate ways to wire the speaker jacks? I've added an impedance selector to my build. I'll be putting a 16 ohm speaker in the combo cab. I'd also like to additionally use a 16 ohm external cab at times. The way the standard wiring is, would it work OK with the impedance set to 8 ohms when I'm also using the external cab? Or would I wire the jacks differently?

Title: Re: 5e3 - alternate speaker jack wiring?
Post by: pdf64 on November 04, 2022, 11:19:37 am

The 8ohm setting will be ideal in that scenario, ie 16ohm speakers plugged into each speaker socket.
As speaker sockets are (almost) universally connected in parallel, tip to tip, sleeve to sleeve.