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I would just order the speakers from Weber. Infact that's exatly what I did when I restored my sawed-in-half SA212 to it's former glory. The Weber FC-12 is supposed to be an exact copy of the original Fane Crescendo's, and Dave Gilmour uses Crescendo's in his WEM cabs...

And to futher add my confusion, the 1974 Hylight catalogue says the external speaker output is 8 Ohms. And if that's correct changing the wiring in to 16 ohms would blow the transformers where as running the 16 ohm output to a 8 Ohm speaker load would just blow the power tubes (If I understood it ri...

No. The previous owner had removed them. So it would seem, that I'm currently running the amp on an 8 Ohm Load (two 16 Ohm speakers wired in parallel) instead of 16 Ohms. Isnt that supposed to be a pretty bad thing. The External speaker output has a text: 16 (or possibly 15, hard to make out) Ohms w...

Thanks! I allready installed the vinyl and the grill cloth, a local DIY Amp/Electronics store had them in store. The Schematics (http://www.drtube.com/schematics/hiwatt/hwpwr50w.gif) say something about 8 and 16 Ohms, but I'm not sure if I'm reading them correctly since I don't know the first thing ...

Hi! So I connected the two 16 ohm speakers parallel and thus the Impedance should be 8 Ohms, right? Is it safe to run the amp on 8 ohms load or should the Impedance be 16 Ohms? The speakers are connected with a speaker cable from the external speaker output. The Amp seems to work just fine and the s...

Just finished building the cab. It turned out to be pretty good and I think it's not that far from the original. A few things have been done a litlle different (propably) since I did'nt have any drawings or a real one to look at but who cares as long as it's good. I Didn't do any of the roundings ye...

Hi, heres some more silly questions: I've decided to get a pair of the Ceramic Weber FC12 speakers but how about the impedance of the speakers? The external speaker output is 8 Ohms. But how about the internal speaker output? Should I get 4, 8 or 16 ohm speakers and how should I connect them for ach...

Dr.HIWATT wrote:ceramic.

But why? What is it that makes the ceramic magnets so mutch better for the Hiwatt amps.

The project is moving along nicely... I've got all the wood materials and I've ordered everything else exept the grill cloth and the speakers. Being a huge David Gilmour fan I'm propably going to get the Weber FC12 Fane Crescendo clones as the speakers. But should I buy the ceramic or the AlNiCo ver...

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That helped alot thanks. I'm propably going to buy the materials next week and I hope that the project will be completed by the end of June so that I can use it when my band goes to studio...

Thanks! I've made some preliminary drawings based on the assumption that the cabs 12Dx27wx22h but i'm stilll a little doubtfull about the height. 22'' seems too little. The front baffle's propably 3/4'' and the rear baffle's propably about 1/2''. There's also a 1'' lip on the front and the front baf...

And it'll also be fun to do it my self.

I thought about that for a while. But I figured that building the thing myself isn't going to be insanely difficult and the price will be low compared to ordering the cab from the US and shipping it to Finland is going to cost a bit too much. But thanks anyway.

Hmm... funny it doesn't seem to be wider than its height even tough the catalogue says it's H 22 and W 27

Is the part with the amplifier isolated from the speakers?