blown tweeters
kenwood guy
10-09-2007, 03:50 AM
I have 2 tweeters(power acoustic)that I added to my sound system through 1passive crossover (alpine) and notice they get very hot when running at high levels I belive the tweeters are getting to much power what can I use inline to step down this power???
PaulD
10-09-2007, 06:55 PM
you had your tweets wired in parallel, which was drawing a LOT more power from your amp. Additonally, if I remember correctly), putting a 2 ohm load on a 4 ohm passive crossover will halve its xover freq. That means the tweeter is playing down to around 1 KHz or less ... really low freq's for a small tweeter.
kenwood guy
10-11-2007, 01:50 AM
what do i do???
PaulD
10-11-2007, 07:10 PM
not much, given the equipment you have. The only real cure is to either take the tweets off and get a seperate amp for them OR build a set of passives to account for the lower impedance.
nicks84
10-17-2007, 04:03 PM
you had your tweets wired in parallel, which was drawing a LOT more power from your amp. Additonally, if I remember correctly), putting a 2 ohm load on a 4 ohm passive crossover will halve its xover freq. That means the tweeter is playing down to around 1 KHz or less ... really low freq's for a small tweeter.
not much, given the equipment you have. The only real cure is to either take the tweets off and get a seperate amp for them OR build a set of passives to account for the lower impedance.
Sounds right to me, not much else he can really do.
not much, given the equipment you have. The only real cure is to either take the tweets off and get a seperate amp for them OR build a set of passives to account for the lower impedance.
Sounds right to me, not much else he can really do.
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