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Twisted Zistors
I'm about to start gathering the parts to build a pair of Jeff Bagby's "Woofer modules" and realized that apparently "Twisted Zistors" were a proprietary line from Meniscus. So I could use some informed opinions about resistors.
The valus I need are 3 and 10 ohm, 25 watts.
Firstly, why do you suppose he specified them? And secondly is there something else that would work as well in that application? And would it matter?
Thanks very much for any help.
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Woops. This wasn't supposed to be in gear swap.
Just make sure that your resistors can handle 25watts, you can paralell resisters to increase their power handeling. Here is a nice calculator to help:
https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/conversion-calculators/conversion-calculator-parallel-and-series-resistor
Madisound carries big 25watt sand cast: https://madisoundspeakerstore.com/wirewound-25-watt/
Looks like they carry 10ohm, but only 2.7ohm or 3.3ohm. .3ohm in either direction probably won't make much of a difference unless padding down something like a high sensitivity low impedance tweeter... And even then I bet the difference would be pretty minimal.
Though they also have 6ohm 15watt. Wire two in parallel for 3ohm 30watt capacity.
https://madisoundspeakerstore.com/wirewound-15-watt/6-ohm-15-watt-wirewound-resistor/