Electronic – ny formula to get number of windings for a 50W voice coil of a speaker

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Is there any formula to calculate number of windings to get a 50 Watts voice coil of a speaker?

let's say, I want to wind a 20mm diameter voice coil for a speaker. And my coil is made out of copper wire which is 1 mm thick (diameter) and has a resistance of 13 ohms per 1000 meters. And I want the voice coil to use 50 Watts. How do I calculate the number of windings required?

P.S: I'm developing a new speaker design, so, I'll experiment with overheating issues. Just ignore all other parameters and let me understand the relationships between given parameters to initially wind the voice coil. I'm stuck in finding out the number of windings to experiment with, so if some formula gives 50 turns, I'll initially wind it and experiment with all other parameters one by one (eg: overheating).

Best Answer

Calculate the length of the wire required first by its resistance. If 1000 m per 13 ohm, that simply means 500 m per 6.5 ohm or 76.92 m per ohm. Now if you are wiring a coil for 4 ohms, you need 307 m wire on the coil. Now calculate the length of one turn of wire on the coil. If one turn is 2 inches, for example, then you need 2000 turns for 4 ohms impedance.

The coil is designed on ohms not watts. Watts indicate the capacity or load a coil can handle, which depends on the gauge of wire. And before wiring, you can check gauge and watt chart for adequate watt calculation.