Distributed Speaker System Cable Loss Calculator

Total number of Speakers connected: 7 Select Units of

Tap setting on speakers (watts): 1 Watts Measure

Speaker Sensitivity (dB@1watt/1m): 94 dB Metres & mm²

Distance from Speaker to target: 3 metres
Total Cable length: 7234 metres 18
Length of feed cable to first speaker: 40 metres
Distributed system maximum voltage: 70.7 Volts
Cable c.s.a.: 3.30 mm²

Total load of speakers and cable is 737.5 ohms, or 7 Watts

7234,03 metres of 3,3mm² speaker cable has a resistance of 75,58 Ohms
Maximum current in feed cable is 0.1 amps
SPL difference between first and last speaker is 0.4dB

Speaker #1 Speaker # 4 Speaker #7

SPL loss due to cable 0.0dB -0.24dB -0.45dB
Max. Voltage at Speaker 70.7 Volts 68.8 Volts 67.1 Volts
Max. Power at Speaker 1.0 Watts 0.9 Watts 0.9 Watts
Max. SPL at 3 metres 84.0dB 83.7dB 83.5dB

SPL (dB) Loss due to Cable

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 AWG# CSA
M/Ft SPL loss calcs
Metres & mm² distance 3 24 0.2047
Feet & AWG Spl loss 9.5424 22 0.3255

metres 20 0.5176

18 0.8230

individual spkr imp 4998.49 16 1.3087

Total spkr Watts 7 14 2.0809

Total spkr impedan 714.07 Total imp+cable 737.52 12 3.3088

Length in M 7234.03 total load power 6.78 10 5.2612

resistivity/1000m 5.22 8 8.3656

Total cable resist. 75.58 selected csa

Feed cable (m) 40 18 0.8231

section lengths (m) 1199

Section Factor 1

cable section # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Speaker # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

section length 40.0 1199.0 1199.0 1199.0 1199.0 1199.0 1199.0

cumulative length 40.0 1239.0 2438.0 3637.0 4836.0 6035.0 7234.0

section cable loss 0.42 12.53 12.53 12.53 12.53 12.53 12.53
Spkr load imp. 714.07 714.07 714.07 714.07 714.07 714.07 714.07
regressive imp. 737.52 864.60 ### ### ### ### ###

loss ratio (resist) 0.9994 0.9855 0.9878 0.9902 0.9926 0.9950 0.9975
Actual volts 70.660 69.64 68.79 68.11 67.60 67.27 67.10
dB volts loss (SPL) 0.00 -0.13 -0.24 -0.32 -0.39 -0.43 -0.45

dB diff to spkr 1 0.00 -0.13 -0.23 -0.32 -0.38 -0.43 -0.45

Effective Spkr pwr 1.00 0.97 0.95 0.93 0.91 0.91 0.90
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Speaker #

section length

cumulative length

section cable loss

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regressive imp.

loss ratio (resist)

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dB volts loss (SPL)

dB diff to spkr 1
Effective Spkr pwr