Testing a speaker

[Jetsi]

Any quick way to do it?

Put some current through it and look with a multimeter? Any other suggestions?

[vortextwist]

hook it up to a board or old headphones

[Novastar]

Multimeter set for ohms. You should see around 8ohms for any decent "normal" speaker for our purposes.

You do not need to run current through it separately--the multimeter will attend to that.

If you get some weird reading like... WAY over or under 8ohms, the speaker is probably wrecked.

[Jetsi]

Thanks Nova, that is the quick test I was looking for. As I don't have a spare speaker sitting around, I didn't want to do a bunch of cutting and soldering if I didn't have to.

[gundamaniac]

Anyone know if the speaker Tim sells meets Nova's recommended ohms? I don't have a multimeter :oops:

[Novastar]

I can test it for you at the next rehearsal Brian.

And yes, actually... Novastar helped Tim, Ultra and Erv actually GET setup with those speakers, heheh. :) Besides, most of these kinds of speakers should be tested at 8 ohms. MRs... hasbros... blah blah...

[gundamaniac]

Cool, thanks. And gundamaniac wonders whether there is a reason novastar is referring to himself in third person :wink: