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This is what I find on the parts site.

The Tender has the SPEAKER / 16 OHM 5W / 45mm DIAM / STAR FR045A1421 / OBSOLETE (Out of Stock)

Will any of these work?

This one, SPEAKER / 16 OHM 0.7W / 45mm DIAM x 9mm H / UNISON, seems like it's the same size, in OHMs. But big watts difference?

Would love any speaker knowledge. I have several older tenders with bad speakers.

Greg From Texas



BF0000013SPEAKER / 16 OHM 0.7W / 45mm DIAM x 9mm H / UNISON38$10.00/ea
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BF0000031SPEAKER / 16 OHM 2W / 45mm DIAMETER / STAR / NR-045-A1Z04 (Out of Stock)38$10.00/ea
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BF0000033SPEAKER / 16 OHM 3W / 50mm DIAM. / REPLACES STAR AND ASAHI (Out of Stock)38$18.00/ea
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BF0000021SPEAKER / 16 OHM 5W / 45mm DIAM / STAR FR045A1421 / OBSOLETE (Out of Stock)38$10.00/ea
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BF0000039SPEAKER / 4 OHM 3W / 45mm DIAM x 17mm H / STAR NR045A322739$10.00/ea
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BF0000034SPEAKER / 4 OHM 3W / 50mm DIAM x 17.5mm H / STAR NR0500902, HSD, OR ASAHI / CAN USE BF0000043 (Out of Stock)39$15.00/ea
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Don't get wrapped around the axle over Watt rating, it's not like we are pushing 40 Watts into these.

What matters most is 3 things- one of which is not even shown to you as a rating in that list:

#1 Get the right impedance (Ohms). This determines how the speaker loads the amplifier and a mismatch is not good. You have a PS2 5V board that then requires a matching 16 Ohm speaker.

#2 Size!!! It has to fit the space, both diameter but ALSO height and any magnet clearance.

#3 The rating NOT EVEN LISTED!!! Sensitivity - the rating of how loud a speaker is at 1W of input power. This ultimately determines in our application with limited input power wattage, how loud the speaker is. Typically is often somewhere in the 70 to 90db range at one Watt of input power. A speaker with a higher number here is louder at the same input power when comparing speakers.

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