Kenworth replacement CB speaker?

I would just pull it out and see what size it is then buy a cheap speaker from wal-mart to replace it. personally I would just buy an good external speaker rather then messing with it.

 

The KW speaker in my truck has got to be the best sounding external speaker I've ever had...It has the added benefit of not looking and sounding like #### like every aftermarket external speaker I've ever seen!

 

Please give me info.on KW speaker,my body told me,he have one like that before and that was one of the best sounding external speaker .

 

Ummmm, how about the parts dept. at a Kenworth dealer?

 

Just get a 4ohm speaker of like size and pop it in.
The 4ohm always sound better then the 8ohm,it takes twice the drive power but the sound quality for a ext CB speaker is usually top shelf.

 

Go to your dealer a go to parts

 

At the risk of contradicting a fellow tech in a public forum, running a solid state amplifier into an impedance (the "ohms" rating) lower than what is specified risks blowing the audio amplifier chip (or transistors). The audio amplifier will have to produce more current to drive that lower resistance, and that can overheat the amp.

Kinda like taking the muffler off of a two-cycle engine. The engine (from what I understand, hence my comparison here) actually needs some resistance to push against in order to run correctly without overheating. Same thing here. If you reduce the amount of resistance (audio and radio power ratings use "impedance" because it's more than just the "ohmmeter ohms") it gets closer to being a dead short.

You can safely put more speakers in series, which adds to the impedance, but not in parallel, like a "Y" adapter would do, because that lowers the impedance, too.

If you're just going to use one speaker, it kinda really needs to be the same impedance or higher than the original.

At low volumes the 4-ohm speaker might be OK, but if you turn it up loud enough to appreciate how much louder it's capable of being, you're heading towards a repair bill on your radio. And a shorted audio amp is easy to diagnose, and there are only a couple of things that will cause it, all user-caused.

Your radio's manufacturer might warranty the failure once, but not over and over.

If it weren't an important point, and based upon science instead of just opinion, I'd never refute a point that's already been made. My apologies.

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