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Sti mayhew 17-03-2013 06:31 PM

Stumped by double crossovers!
 
Has anyone ever wired up front componant speakers that come with 2 crossovers? I'm pretty simple at the best of times but this really has me stumped?

SpecB 17-03-2013 06:48 PM

What speakers and how do you mean 2 crossovers, 2 total or two per channel?

Sti mayhew 17-03-2013 07:32 PM

We bought some focal componant speakers and they come with 2 crossovers per side like this, the only way I can see to do it is by wiring the tweeter to the tweeter, the speaker to the speaker (obviously) but what do I do with the others do I bridge them power to power and earth to earth? I'm so confused I've never seen 2 per side before??

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Granby 17-03-2013 08:20 PM

One is a hi pass filter for the tweeter (T- & T+), the other is a low pass filter for the woofer (W- & W+)

Just split the speaker wire in the door into 2 with 1 going to the tweeter filter & the other going to the woofer filter

Sti mayhew 17-03-2013 08:30 PM

I have two wires for the tweeter +/- and two wires for the speaker +/- at the moment, where do the wires come from for the input?

Granby 17-03-2013 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sti mayhew (Post 156494)
I have two wires for the tweeter +/- and two wires for the speaker +/- at the moment, where do the wires come from for the input?

Do you have a speaker wire coming from the headunit in the door (i assume your fitting these in the door?)

Sti mayhew 17-03-2013 08:58 PM

Yes going in the doors. There is speaker and tweeter already there standard.
I think I get it now,
plug the wires from the standard tweeter into the input +/- on the tweeter crossover
New tweeter wires go into tweeter +/- in the tweeter crossover
Plug the wires that would normally go to the speaker into the input +/- on the crossover
Run new wires from speaker itself to speaker +/- on the other crossover box

If that makes any sense what so ever I'll be very surprised but I think I finally get it!!!
Thanks for trying to help me

Granby 17-03-2013 09:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sti mayhew (Post 156497)
Yes going in the doors. There is speaker and tweeter already there standard.
I think I get it now,
plug the wires from the standard tweeter into the input +/- on the tweeter crossover
New tweeter wires go into tweeter +/- in the tweeter crossover
Plug the wires that would normally go to the speaker into the input +/- on the crossover
Run new wires from speaker itself to speaker +/- on the other crossover box

If that makes any sense what so ever I'll be very surprised but I think I finally get it!!!
Thanks for trying to help me

Sounds about right to me :-)

SpecB 18-03-2013 06:53 AM

That sounds about right, the HP filter for the OE tweeters is built into the tweeter unit so the input feed is full range.


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