Can You Damage a 1 Watt Amp Mismatching Speaker Impedance?

Cadorman said:
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All done. Works perfectly!
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I think you have the switch upside down.
I think the white wire connects when the switch is in the up position.
try disconnect the orange wire from the board first.
measure with an ohm meter between the white wire on the switch, and the orange wire that goes from the switch to the board.
I think you will find that white connects to the orange on the board when the switch is in the up position (not the down position).
But you can turn the switch around to fix that one.
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
I think you have the switch upside down.
I think the white wire connects when the switch is in the up position.
try disconnect the orange wire from the board first.
measure with an ohm meter between the white wire on the switch, and the orange wire that goes from the switch to the board.
I think you will find that white connects to the orange on the board when the switch is in the up position (not the down position).
But you can turn the switch around to fix that one.
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Ha ha ha ha!

You made dummy pull the machine back out of the leather box! He was in doubt of his vastly incomprehensible knowledge! Unfortunately, he actually had it right. White string is 8 ohm feed, orange string is 16 ohm feed. The center pointy thing is always live. The end pointy thing is alive when the flippy thing points away from it. He wasted his time! Now he's a double dummy!
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
I think you have the switch upside down.
I think the white wire connects when the switch is in the up position.
try disconnect the orange wire from the board first.
measure with an ohm meter between the white wire on the switch, and the orange wire that goes from the switch to the board.
I think you will find that white connects to the orange on the board when the switch is in the up position (not the down position).
But you can turn the switch around to fix that one.
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Thanks AMS! Sometimes I forget I'm working upside down. It sounds a lot brighter with the switch in the right position. In stock form the DSL1HR was too dark into an Orange PPC112 with a vintage 30. I put an 8 ohm Greenback in there and it is perfect.
 
Cadorman said:
Thanks AMS! Sometimes I forget I'm working upside down. It sounds a lot brighter with the switch in the right position. In stock form the DSL1HR was too dark into an Orange PPC112 with a vintage 30. I put an 8 ohm Greenback in there and it is perfect.
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Chris, I retract my like from AMS‘s post. I think you had it correct originally. I looked at my pic and then yours. With the chassis upside down you have the 8 ohm written on the bottom, when right side up, as mounted in the housing. So when the switch is down, the 8 ohm white OT wire is routed to the output Jack.


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Ahhh!
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This is right side up. So, on the inside the white wire has to be on top to be 8 ohms.

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This is upside down. The white wire should be on the bottom. It is. I was right. Thank dog I didn't change anything.

Boo! You still suck!
 
Boo said:
Ha ha ha ha!

You made dummy pull the machine back out of the leather box! He was in doubt of his vastly incomprehensible knowledge! Unfortunately, he actually had it right. White string is 8 ohm feed, orange string is 16 ohm feed. The center pointy thing is always live. The end pointy thing is alive when the flippy thing points away from it. He wasted his time! Now he's a double dummy!
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The switch connects white when the toggle is facing the opposite direction from where the white is connected.
You can test this with an ohm meter.
I'm pretty sure that's how a toggle switch works.
 
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