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Topic: Speaker magnet ohm rating? |
Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 5 Dec 2019 6:12 am |
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In the for sale section, there is a Peavey neo magnet for sale. He says the sticker says 8 ohm, but it is actually 4 ohms. Does the magnet actually carry the ohms rating, or is it the voice coil (part of the basket assembly) that determines the impedance?
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Tommy Boswell
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Virginia, USA
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Posted 5 Dec 2019 6:31 am
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It's in the voice coil. Whoever at Peavey decided to put the label on the magnet must have been a marketing person and not an engineer, IMO.
I have a magnet like that on a 4-ohm BW 1501-4, works great. |
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George Kimery
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Limestone, TN, USA
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Posted 5 Dec 2019 7:31 am Speaker magnet ohm rating
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 5 Dec 2019 8:08 am
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Yes, it's the voice coil.
I recently re-coned a 16 ohm JBL speaker to 8 ohm. 
Erv |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 5 Dec 2019 8:29 am
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| Tommy Boswell wrote: |
It's in the voice coil. Whoever at Peavey decided to put the label on the magnet must have been a marketing person and not an engineer, IMO.
I have a magnet like that on a 4-ohm BW 1501-4, works great. |
I have a feeling the magnet was taken off an 8 ohm speaker.
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| Maybe the speaker has been re-coned to 4 ohms. |
It's just the magnet that's for sale.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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Danny Letz
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Old Glory,Texas, USA 79540
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Posted 5 Dec 2019 8:37 am
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| There have been posts before said it was a misprint. |
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 5 Dec 2019 9:03 am
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| Danny Letz wrote: |
| There have been posts before said it was a misprint. |
Wow. You think a big company live Peavey would have had enough money to print both 4 and 8 ohm labels.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 5 Dec 2019 9:35 am
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| Richard Sinkler wrote: |
| Wow. You think a big company live Peavey would have had enough money to print both 4 and 8 ohm labels. |
Quite often the larger a company is, the better the chance the right hand doesn't know what the left hand's doing. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 5 Dec 2019 1:23 pm
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| Jack Hanson wrote: |
| Richard Sinkler wrote: |
| Wow. You think a big company live Peavey would have had enough money to print both 4 and 8 ohm labels. |
Quite often the larger a company is, the better the chance the right hand doesn't know what the left hand's doing. |
That's a pretty big oversight though. Maybe they are missing the left hand. 
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 5 Dec 2019 1:32 pm
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| Richard Sinkler wrote: |
| That's a pretty big oversight though. Maybe they are missing the left hand. |
Could be. They have definitely been missing their right hand since they showed Mike B the door. |
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Carl Mesrobian
From:
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 6 Dec 2019 12:38 pm
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Magnets are measured in Gauss units.
Off the track a little - if you are in a canoe in the water with a speaker, will the canoe rotate to magnetic north??
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 6 Dec 2019 12:51 pm
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If you are in a whirlpool, it will rotate to the bottom. 
Erv |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 8 Dec 2019 11:34 am
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Erv, that happens when you put a 30 gnome fuse in a 20 volt appleflyer with a 50 faraday spleaker. The introductance gets misconscrewed with the resistator, and the amps leak onto the diagram manget.
At least, that what Norm Crosby told me. |
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 8 Dec 2019 1:18 pm
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| Donny Hinson wrote: |
Erv, that happens when you put a 30 gnome fuse in a 20 volt appleflyer with a 50 faraday spleaker. The introductance gets misconscrewed with the resistator, and the amps leak onto the diagram manget.
At least, that what Norm Crosby told me. |
I found that your screams, as you are sinking, sound better with a 43 faraday spleaker.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2019 8:23 am
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Donny,
Thank you for clearing that up for me!
Erv |
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