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capacitor choice for tweeters in parallel/midrange horns?
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<blockquote data-quote="RSDXzec" data-source="post: 8023276" data-attributes="member: 638347"><p>I recently got my hands on some midrange/tweeter horns and I'll be putting them in my car soon but i'm not sure what capacitors to use for them.</p><p></p><p>I have a pair of super tweeters 2k-22khz that I want to wire in parallel. Each of them came with 2.2uF caps and if I wired the caps in parallel i'd have 4.4uF. My reasoning behind having the tweeters in parallel is to reduce the impedance as they are rated at 4-8ohms. What single cap should I use to have these in parallel?</p><p></p><p>The other pair are horn midrange/tweeters 800-15khz which didn't come with caps at all, so what size caps would I use either for both on their own or together wired in parallel? These horns are also rated impedance at 4-8 ohms.</p><p></p><p>Using a capacitor calculator only confused things more for me, considering the first pair of tweeters go down to 2khz but came with 2.2uF caps. According to this <a href="http://www.carstereo.com/help/Articles.cfm?id=1" target="_blank">Car Audio - Speaker Crossover Chart and Capacitance vs. Frequency Calculator(High-pass)</a> that's a hpf at 9034hz</p><p></p><p>Cheers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RSDXzec, post: 8023276, member: 638347"] I recently got my hands on some midrange/tweeter horns and I'll be putting them in my car soon but i'm not sure what capacitors to use for them. I have a pair of super tweeters 2k-22khz that I want to wire in parallel. Each of them came with 2.2uF caps and if I wired the caps in parallel i'd have 4.4uF. My reasoning behind having the tweeters in parallel is to reduce the impedance as they are rated at 4-8ohms. What single cap should I use to have these in parallel? The other pair are horn midrange/tweeters 800-15khz which didn't come with caps at all, so what size caps would I use either for both on their own or together wired in parallel? These horns are also rated impedance at 4-8 ohms. Using a capacitor calculator only confused things more for me, considering the first pair of tweeters go down to 2khz but came with 2.2uF caps. According to this [URL="http://www.carstereo.com/help/Articles.cfm?id=1"]Car Audio - Speaker Crossover Chart and Capacitance vs. Frequency Calculator(High-pass)[/URL] that's a hpf at 9034hz Cheers. [/QUOTE]
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