Troubles with a 68 Traynor 4x10 cabinet

[mlannoo]

I just picked up a Traynor YSR-1 Custom Reverb 50w head and a 4x10 Traynor cabinet (YF-10). The speaker cabinet had one bad speaker - the wires were ripped from the cone. So someone rewired the cab so that only 2 of the 4 speakers are connected in series.

Searching the net i found that this cabinet might be a 200w / 8ohm cab although i can't confirm it. These may be "Marsland" speakers too? The markings on the speakers are:

DWK8 - stamped in ink on the speaker rim.
YST10 - stamped in ink on the back of the magnet. I'm guessing that means "Yorkville Sound Traynor 10 inch"
23-10E01.1 - stamped on the back of the cone.

The speaker frame is stamped steel (unpainted) and has 6 spokes. It has a decent size magnet (1/2 inch thick, 4.5 inches in diameter) so i'm guessing it's around a 40-50w speaker. I measured the resistance of one speakers and it reads very low - like around 1ohm - maybe i'm not doing that correctly.

The cone has no ribbes. Looks like there is a light doping around the outer rim. The center cone dome cover is 3" in diameter.

I have no idea how this cab is supposed to be wired. I'm guessing the speakers are 2ohm and wired in series to equal a 8ohm load.

If i replace all 4, I guess i could purchase four 8ohm speakers and wire it series/parallel to total an 8ohm load. I'm looking at a set of Weber 10F150's.

Anyone have thoughts or insight into this dilemma? Thanks for looking.

[Enzo]

Disconnect the wires from one of the good speakers and then remeasure it. If you got less tghan an ohm, it is more likely that the thing is shorted, the wiring to it is shorted, or it is still connected to an output transformer. If it now comes up 6-7 ohms, then it is an 8.

It is VERY unlikely they wired four 2 ohm speakers in series. Though strange things sometimes happen.

Most likely the cab is 8 ohm and there are four 8 ohm drivers wired in S/P.

[mlannoo]

Disconnect the wires from one of the good speakers and then remeasure it. If you got less tghan an ohm, it is more likely that the thing is shorted, the wiring to it is shorted, or it is still connected to an output transformer. If it now comes up 6-7 ohms, then it is an 8.

It is VERY unlikely they wired four 2 ohm speakers in series. Though strange things sometimes happen.

Most likely the cab is 8 ohm and there are four 8 ohm drivers wired in S/P.

Thanks for the reply! That makes sense. I will re-measure.