[VAC] Re: Stereo Installation, 69 Overlander Int'l

["Richard P. Kenan" <as5368@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, thanks, Gerald.  That's good information to know, and I do like to 
have reasons for things. ;-)

- Dick
(5368)

>Low power or older designs with output transformers can operate with one
>side of each speaker output grounded. Higher power (over a few watts per
>channel) modern stereos don't use transformers but use separate
>amplifier outputs to each side of the speaker (Bridge drive) and
>grounding a speaker output wire is shorting half the amplifier. That
>tends to smoke that half the amplifier.
>
>Gerald J.
>