Re: TTS and how to do it?

["Frank Mc Alinden" <armagh@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian
        I Agree simple is best but how
do you connect 8 speakers to 1 source
without loading the amp?
Frank Mc








----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 8:48 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] TTS and how to do it?


> I like the way you're thinking Ian, simple is best and less likely
to
> fail!
>
> K.
>
> >
> > Perhaps it's a design philosophy, but I really prefer the
"dumb node"
> > approach wherever possible.
> >
> > Why have an amp + power + mute intelligence in each zone, when
you can
> > have
> > just a speaker, and a single wire run to it?
> >
> > I think the idea of using somehting like Ian B's irrigation
relay
> board to
> > switch on/off the zones seems like the best (for me anyway!)
> >
> > perhaps you could use connect the relays such that when closed,
the
> zone
> > speaker is in circuit, wheras if it's open, an 4 or 8 ohm
power
> resistor
> > is
> > in circuit instead?
> >
> > Ian.
>
>
>
>
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