Hooking up four speakers to one decoder.

[fishbelly]

I want to make sure I have this correct. I would appreciate your input or correction if needed. I did this a long time ago, but would really like to verify I am doing it right again.

I am using a loksound 5 direct with Power Pak. I want to keep the speaker impedance to 8 ohms. I am using four Knowles Grand Speakers.

So this is how I believe the four speakers are to be connected. 

Speaker A Terminal 1 and 2
Speaker B Terminal 1 and 2
Speaker C Terminal 1 and 2
Speaker D Terminal 1 and 2

Decoder to Speaker A Terminal 1
Speaker A Terminal 2 to Speaker B Terminal 2
Speaker B Terminal 1 to Speaker C Terminal 1
Speaker C Terminal 2 to Speaker D Terminal 2
Speaker D Terminal 1 to Decoder 

Would this be correct to keep the 8 ohm impedance?

[edwardsutorik]

It appears that the Knowles Grand Speakers are 8 ohms. If this is so, you make two sets of two speakers in series. Then you wire these two sets in parallel.

It's the one on the right, in the picture below:



The other example on the left is two parallel wired sets in series. Ends up the same way. Just harder for me to picture in my head.


Ed

[fishbelly]

Thank you Ed. Great diagrams. I really appreciate you taking the time to do this. I understand it and can wire it up now. This will allow me to put four speakers in my RS-1's.

I just found my diagram of the first four speaker setup I did and it is like the one you drew on the left.