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Old 17-03-2013, 06:31 PM
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Default 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?
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Old 17-03-2013, 06:48 PM
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What speakers and how do you mean 2 crossovers, 2 total or two per channel?
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Old 17-03-2013, 07:32 PM
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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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Old 17-03-2013, 08:20 PM
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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
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Old 17-03-2013, 08:30 PM
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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?
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Old 17-03-2013, 08:37 PM
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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?)
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Old 17-03-2013, 08:58 PM
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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
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Old 17-03-2013, 09:29 PM
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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
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Old 18-03-2013, 06:53 AM
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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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