How would you connect this? (Paint job inside!!)

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Warwick X-treme 5.1 and two WCA 211 cabs, how would yo do it?

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Coz running them in series is the correct way for two 8 ohm cabs to be connected to a 4 ohm head.
Running the other way is paralell.
The reason for both the jack & speakon outputs is to give you the choice of which type of cable you want to use.You could have cabs that are pre-speakon,& only have 1/4" jacks,so you have the means to use them.
 
There's no difference at all in the two methods. The jacks and speakons in your amp and cabinets are all wired together in parallel, so in both method 1 and 2 the internal connections means they are wired in parallel although the cables look like they're connected in 1) parallel and 2) series.

From an electrical circuit point of view then this is what the two different methods look like i.e. no electrical difference as far as the circuit is concerned, they're both running in parallel and so presenting a combined 4 Ohm load to the amp...(plese excuse my rubbish drawing)...
 
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Greg said:
Coz running them in series is the correct way for two 8 ohm cabs to be connected to a 4 ohm head.
Running the other way is paralell.
The reason for both the jack & speakon outputs is to give you the choice of which type of cable you want to use.You could have cabs that are pre-speakon,& only have 1/4" jacks,so you have the means to use them.
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Er, no! If you've got two 8ohm cabs and you put them in series then you're plugging a 16 ohm load into your head, giving very little power. But if you put the two 8 cabs in parallel they make a 4ohm load, so your head is running at full power - very efficient, i.e. loud.
 
Er,sorry.What was i thinking?
Heaven forbid I should ever get my wires crossed.:roll:
 
This!

colinb said:
there's no difference at all in the two methods. The jacks and speakons in your amp and cabinets are all wired together in parallel, so in both method 1 and 2 the internal connections means they are wired in parallel although the cables look like they're connected in 1) parallel and 2) series.

From an electrical circuit point of view then this is what the two different methods look like i.e. No electrical difference as far as the circuit is concerned, they're both running in parallel and so presenting a combined 4 ohm load to the amp...(plese excuse my rubbish drawing)...
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Yep. Colin & Babeb are apparently right. I did some googling and came to the same conclusion.

Besides, this is from the Tubepath manual and won't result in 16 ohms to be honest or Warwick wouldn't advice it:
 
I feel like I'm in the twilight zone in this thread.
I merely confused parallel with series.
If you re-read my post,it advises to use the same connectivety as the manual.
Colin said it makes no difference which way.but to use both of the amps speaker outputs,means you'll have to combine a 1/4" cable & a speakon.
It's really THAT simple.
 
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