Leave them floating, no need to load them. Unloaded power amps are stable. Shoot any engineer that designs an audio power amp that is unstable into no load! -Bob At 10:07 PM 8/17/2000 -0400, you wrote: >On rec.audio.car there is a recent discussion on whether or not unused >speaker outputs on amplifiers should be loaded or not. >so I figure there are far more knowledgeable people on this list when it >comes to the actual how's and whys then on the car stereo newsgroup so I >come to ya'll looking of answers :) > > Someone suggested that if left unloaded the output transistors could >oscillate and burn themselves out it not protected (i.e. thermal >disabling or some other method) -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu