Upgrading 'Jose' resistive load box to reactive
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Re: Upgrading 'Jose' resistive load box to reactive
I'm always really wary of reactive load boxes. Mainly because I know next to nothing about them!! How do we know they're safe to use?
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Re: Upgrading 'Jose' resistive load box to reactive
Reactive simply means that instead of providing a constant resistance regardless of frequency and amplitude it will react more like a speaker and present a different resistance dependant upon frequency and amplitude.Littlewyan wrote:I'm always really wary of reactive load boxes. Mainly because I know next to nothing about them!! How do we know they're safe to use?
Your speakers are a reactive load. Nothing dangerous about them.
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Re: Upgrading 'Jose' resistive load box to reactive
Sorry for the extremely late reply!
I understand that speakers are reactive loads but can't some reactive loads cause spikes? I thought that's why the Marshall Powerbrake was so notorious for blowing up Output Transformers.
I understand that speakers are reactive loads but can't some reactive loads cause spikes? I thought that's why the Marshall Powerbrake was so notorious for blowing up Output Transformers.