Hooking up my crossover power wire.

[calebkhill 10+ year member]

Can i just run the power wire in with an amp, like connect the power wire to the amps power , or would that hurt.

It has a 3a fuse on the wire, so i could run this in my power distributor w/o needing another fuse right?

Whats the simplest way to hook up the power wire up.

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[butterMilk 10+ year member]

Yeah I would run it off your power dist block, thats easier than running a new wire. And if its got a 3a fuse already on the wire you are good to go.

 

[calebkhill 10+ year member]

cool

 

[calebkhill 10+ year member]

wait i dont have another spot on my distributor. can i just wire it in with an amp at the distributor

 

[butterMilk 10+ year member]

yup

 

[calebkhill 10+ year member]

wow. after i hooked everything to the crossover my speakers sounded blowed..... sounded nasty... couldnt get it to sound right so i just took it out. wonder whatg that was all about..

 

[butterMilk 10+ year member]

Post a pic of how you had everything set and hooked up. Maybe you had done something wrong?

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

Maybe you have no clue what you're doing?

- What HU/source are you using?

- What crossover do you have?

- What amp?

- What speakers?

- How is it all hooked up?

- What were you expecting?

 

[gckless 5,000+ posts]

^^This

 

[calebkhill 10+ year member]

HU: Pioneer avhp8400bh

crossover: Coustic 3 way crossover (no telling how old it is, probably 10years, which is probably the problem.)

tweet amp: alpine mrp300

component amp: sony xplod XM-GTX1852-FB-R

Speakers: 4 RF t1693 6x9s, 2 RF P1T-S tweets.

I have amps hooked to a distributor, which runs from a capacitor. I wired the crossover power in with my tweet amp at the distributor, and used a regular small speaker wire terminal on the ground wire and grounded it to the chasis (the small terminal maybe being another problem). The RCA cables from the HU runing into to the inputs on the crossover, and RCAs coming from output to amps.....

What was i expecting? To set my frequencies to my tweets and 6x9s...

By the way i have subs but waasnt running those to this crossover, my HU has one for subs.

 

[butterMilk 10+ year member]

One thing, I dont think you should have your power dist block hooked up to a cap.

 

[calebkhill 10+ year member]

Why?

 

[butterMilk 10+ year member]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I have never actually used a cap.

But you want the cap as close to the amp as possible. And generally you only need a cap for the sub amp. I doubt your mids draw enough power to need a cap.

 

[gckless 5,000+ posts]

Here ya go, read these:

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[maylar 10+ year member]

HU: Pioneer avhp8400bhcrossover: Coustic 3 way crossover (no telling how old it is, probably 10years, which is probably the problem.)

tweet amp: alpine mrp300

component amp: sony xplod XM-GTX1852-FB-R

Speakers: 4 RF t1693 6x9s, 2 RF P1T-S tweets.

I have amps hooked to a distributor, which runs from a capacitor. I wired the crossover power in with my tweet amp at the distributor, and used a regular small speaker wire terminal on the ground wire and grounded it to the chasis (the small terminal maybe being another problem). The RCA cables from the HU runing into to the inputs on the crossover, and RCAs coming from output to amps.....

What was i expecting? To set my frequencies to my tweets and 6x9s...

By the way i have subs but waasnt running those to this crossover, my HU has one for subs.

Is the crossover the XM6? If not, what model?

The Alpine amp is 4 channel - are you bridging it to 2 tweeters?

The Sony amp is 2 channel - are you running the 4 6x9's as parallel pairs?

How do you have the crossover configured, and what settings are you using on the amps' HPF/LPF? They all play together. You're running an active system that can take a lot of time to dial in.

And the capacitor isn't your problem. Don't worry about that.