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    Posted: 18 April 2013 at 2:37pm
2 x celestions in a Vox AC30.

First person to spot the mistake gets a picture of a slice of my dad's birthday cake

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looks like they are wired in series, but for some reason one seems to have been wired to the right driver chassis to 'earth' it, and judging by the size of the tabs, they are wired out of phase [+ / - / - / +]?
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Lovely wiring technique, how would you call it?   
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It should have been at least 2.4mm cable?
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Originally posted by kedwardsleisure kedwardsleisure wrote:

2 x celestions in a Vox AC30.

First person to spot the mistake gets a picture of a slice of my dad's birthday cake



The Jumper cable is wired negative (-) to negative (-) instead of positive (+) to negative (-).

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nice escher picture!
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they are wired in series and are 16ohms giving 32ohms. The AC30 is a valve amp and would not have a 32ohm tap on the output transformer.
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Should be wired like this in parallel?
  
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Yup,i have seen this sort of thing a few times,especially in 2x12's,are the drivers wired out of phase with each other? and they wonder why the cabinet doesnt sound quite right? Tongue


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Are they really out of phase? The solder tags are facing one another, therefore top becomes bottom.....Impedance will be too high, and why is one lead grounded to chassis?
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No they are not out of phase but they are wired in series when it should be parallel. Once upon a time it was considered good practice to earth speaker chassis as a safety precaution. However earthing only one is a bit pointless. The only other thing is that the speakers are G12M. If this is an original vintage amp it would have been fitted with Celestion Blue speakers. They are still available. However they cost an arm and a leg and usually get replaced with something cheaper.

Edit. Having had another look at the photo I think both speakers are earthed.


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