OHM's?

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

To long to properly explain in a post. go here http://www.bcae1.com

Click to read more...

 

[kuijo 10+ year member]

nominal?

 

[JeffyZ33 10+ year member]

Ohms are what your subwoofer box puts out when you hit over 140db.

If you're short on cash, you can sell a couple ohms, as long as the wiring from your amp to subwoofers is less than 1 foot long.

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

Ohms are what your subwoofer box puts out when you hit over 140db.
If you're short on cash, you can sell a couple ohms, as long as the wiring from your amp to subwoofers is less than 1 foot long.

dont be an ******* this guy is trying to learn

 

[kuijo 10+ year member]

dont be an ******* this guy is trying to learn

i think it was truly ignorance on his part and he was being serious. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

In a practical sense of the word for car audio, it allows you to have different wiring options. When you wire up your subs to your amp, you can wire it in different ohm "loads".

So look and see how many watts your subwoofer puts out at each ohm level. The power your amp can put out usually increases as you decrease the ohm load, but be careful because some amps aren't recommended to go below 2 ohms because of overheating issues and frying internal structres in the amp.

Voltage (volts) = Current (amps) x Impedance (ohms)

One ohm is the resistance value through which one volt will maintain a current of one ampere.

Now with power, Power (Watts) = Voltage (volts) x I (current)

 

[JeffyZ33 10+ year member]

Sorry for being an ***, and yes I was, but it's not like this is an uncommon question. A good way to start off would be going to http://www.bcae1.com and reading your @ss off like said above, looking at different wiring diagrams untill you kind of have a fluent method of knowing what impendance you can wire to, and reading around these boards.

Sorry bro, hope you have a good time here.

 

[stones 10+ year member]

I wrote an explanaition a while back on this

Click this link to see it-

http://www.caraudio.com/vb/showthread.php?p=1044638#post1044638

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

In a practical sense of the word for car audio, it allows you to have different wiring options. When you wire up your subs to your amp, you can wire it in different ohm "loads".
So look and see how many watts your subwoofer puts out at each ohm level. The power your amp can put out usually increases as you decrease the ohm load, but be careful because some amps aren't recommended to go below 2 ohms because of overheating issues and frying internal structres in the amp.

Voltage (volts) = Current (amps) x Impedance (ohms)

One ohm is the resistance value through which one volt will maintain a current of one ampere.

Now with power, Power (Watts) = Voltage (volts) x I (current)

Subwoofers don't put out watts.

 

[PatFitz9 10+ year member]

ohms are the measurement of resistance, like amperes are a measure of current. picture the sub as a resistor, those ratings on the amp (blah watts @ X ohms) correspond with values of resistance that the sub can have.

 

[Raisedin305 5,000+ posts]

dont be an ******* this guy is trying to learn

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/word.gif.64b12e39f936af3b4fff38a1c0bd0244.gif

 

[White Rascal 10+ year member]

Simply put an ohm is a unit of resistance (or impedance) to the flow of current. Resistance applies to DC voltages while impedance refers to AC voltages which are constantly changing in amplitude and frequency.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

And for a semi-useless fact (at least in SS electronics), the unit of conductance is the "mho"...appropriately, "ohm" spelled backwards //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[thch 10+ year member]

And for a semi-useless fact (at least in SS electronics), the unit of conductance is the "mho"...appropriately, "ohm" spelled backwards //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

that is one of the units. its neat to see millimhos. the SI unit is Siemen though.

you can measure fuel economy in rods to the hogshead. it is pretty cruel too.

 

[Saint211 10+ year member]

Millim-hoes and siemen? im all for the first but ill pass on the latter