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<blockquote data-quote="gamehawk55" data-source="post: 8069889" data-attributes="member: 645990">Hey guys,So on Wednesday I installed a pair of Focal PS165 components in my front doors. Everything went fairly smoothly and everything works and sounds good but I have a small concern though. The speakers come with 2 crossovers for each side, one for the mid and one for the tweeter. For those not familiar with these sets, the tweeter x-over has 2 dip switches. One for controlling the volume of the tweeter (0db,-3db and -6db) and the other for controlling the x-over frequency of the tweeter (3 settings but none are known).Anyways, it seems as though the crossover for the tweeters are not working as intended because the tweeters will only work with the switches set to position &quot;3&quot;. Any other setting and they play no sound at all. And also I&#039;m not too sure if the volume switch is actually doing anything either, I tried that in all positions and didn&#039;t really notice any difference in how loud the tweeters were, and I would assume there should be a pretty major difference between 0db and -6db for a tweeter.For those familiar with this set of focals also knows that the manual is practically useless and offers little to no help in terms of installation and troubleshooting. Just a couple of simple pictures for 2 different wiring options. I&#039;m currently using option &quot;1&quot; where I&#039;m only using 1 set of wires from the amp for each side and wiring the crossovers together in parallel. I&#039;ve included a picture of how my crossovers are wired and hoping someone comes along who has ran these speakers and can tell me if this is normal and the tweeter crossover will only work as intended when wired to it&#039;s own channel or if it should also work no matter which wiring option you choose.[ATTACH]26541362[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gamehawk55, post: 8069889, member: 645990"] Hey guys, So on Wednesday I installed a pair of Focal PS165 components in my front doors. Everything went fairly smoothly and everything works and sounds good but I have a small concern though. The speakers come with 2 crossovers for each side, one for the mid and one for the tweeter. For those not familiar with these sets, the tweeter x-over has 2 dip switches. One for controlling the volume of the tweeter (0db,-3db and -6db) and the other for controlling the x-over frequency of the tweeter (3 settings but none are known). Anyways, it seems as though the crossover for the tweeters are not working as intended because the tweeters will only work with the switches set to position "3". Any other setting and they play no sound at all. And also I'm not too sure if the volume switch is actually doing anything either, I tried that in all positions and didn't really notice any difference in how loud the tweeters were, and I would assume there should be a pretty major difference between 0db and -6db for a tweeter. For those familiar with this set of focals also knows that the manual is practically useless and offers little to no help in terms of installation and troubleshooting. Just a couple of simple pictures for 2 different wiring options. I'm currently using option "1" where I'm only using 1 set of wires from the amp for each side and wiring the crossovers together in parallel. I've included a picture of how my crossovers are wired and hoping someone comes along who has ran these speakers and can tell me if this is normal and the tweeter crossover will only work as intended when wired to it's own channel or if it should also work no matter which wiring option you choose. [ATTACH=CONFIG]26541362[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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