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Re: radio

To: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Subject: Re: radio
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:40:26 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Daryl May <mayfam@sprynet.com>, "Evangelos G. Makris" <emakris@hol.gr>, spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
In-reply-to: <34C531F2.8E19C526@brit.ca>
Reply-to: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Trevor Boicey wrote:

> Daryl May wrote:
> > You just hook the L&R speaker wires together (one set) and attach to one
> > pole of the single speaker, and the other L&R speaker wires together also
> > (hopefully these are a single color to identify that these go together) and
> > attach them to the other pole of the single speaker.
> 
>   I strongly recommend NOT doing this.
> 
>   Think of what happens when the left side is driving full forward
> and the right side is driving full reverse. Yup, a dead short.
> Considering
> this will happen hundreds of times a second, that's not so good.

I second that.  The one thing I do know is that some stereos allow you to
use a common ground (connect the negative of both channels together), but
some specifically tell you not to do this.
I would either use a mono stereo (pun intended) or use two speakers.

    Ulix                                                    __/__,__        
.......................................................... (_o____o_)....
                                                           '67 Sprite


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