I need help hooking up a sellenium horn

[JJasonTocci 10+ year member]

Ok I have a sub amp already connected to my battery for my 13.5 JL. I hooked up a highs amp to the sub amp which was pretty simple. I now have both amps on when my car is on but when i connect the speaker wire from my highs amp to my selenium speaker all the horn does it make kind of a static sound. Im wondering if what could I have done wrong. Also the amp is my friends amp and we hooked up my horn to it when he had it wired in his truck. He sold me the amp and now it doesnt work.

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[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

Do you have any kind of HPF on the selenium tweeter? Do you have any idea what sound actually comes out of a tweeter?

 

[Chrispy 10+ year member]

With the information you gave my guess would be you're using the pass thru on the sub amp to your highs amp which is only passing the low frequencies through. Just my guess until we have more info. What Selenium are you using exactly? What amps and head unit?

 

[JJasonTocci 10+ year member]

the sub amp im using is a JL XD600/1, the highs amp is Pyle PLA2378, the speaker is a selenium D250, and the headunit is just a $70 single din pioneer from walmart.

 

[Chrispy 10+ year member]

So you have the RCAs coming from the JL preouts going to the Pyle correct? I'm not sure if the JL preouts are full range or whatever you have the crossover set at on the amp. Maybe someone know's but if they are not full range that's the problem. Try unhooking the RCAs from the input of the JL and go directly to the Pyle and see what happens.

Also make sure you have the pyle on High pass and the frequency to the max which is 300 Hz and pretty low for those D250s so be easy on them.

 

[Chrispy 10+ year member]

After some research I found out the JL preouts are full range. I'm not real familiar with Pioneer but do you have a low pass filter set on the head unit?

 

[JJasonTocci 10+ year member]

Ok sorry for not replying for a while but I just decided to take out my JL amp and sub and just hook my highs amp up and it's still making the exact same sound.

 

[SourDeez 10+ year member]

Bad tweeter or bad amp probably

 

[JJasonTocci 10+ year member]

But it does the same thing if I hooked it up to just my sub amp, is there a way I can hook it up without an amp?

 

[SourDeez 10+ year member]

But it does the same thing if I hooked it up to just my sub amp, is there a way I can hook it up without an amp?

I take that back.

The tweeter and amp is probably fine.

Its most likely user error.

 

[JJasonTocci 10+ year member]

I take that back.
The tweeter and amp is probably fine.

Its most likely user error.

It probably is I dont know anything about car audio so why dont you tell me what im doing wrong.. I made a video just for you.

[video=youtube;8RfgUdiR-68]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RfgUdiR-68

 

[SourDeez 10+ year member]

Ok dude. Your **** is all screwed up. You need to restart everything and stop just throwing random **** in your trunk

The selenium tweeters you have are 8 ohm speakers rated at 150 watts

The amp you are trying to power them with says 2000 watts.. obviously its not nearly that but still, you probably fried the **** out of that tweeter dude. You cant just throw random speakers and amps together and try to connect them and think it will work.

Pyle PLA2378 (pla-2378) Class A/B 2-Channel Power Car Amplifier

Selenium D250-X 1" Phenolic Horn Driver 1-3/8"-18 TPI Pro Audio Compression Driver 264-204

 

[JJasonTocci 10+ year member]

the amp i am using is from my friends truck and he was running a d250 off of it just fine and then when we plugged my d250 in it worked, once we moved the amp from his truck to my car the d250 wouldnt work anymore. yesterday i hooked it up to my other friends truck and it played

 

[SourDeez 10+ year member]

One of you fried it

 

[JJasonTocci 10+ year member]

and if i hook it up to my friends amp and it works, then what? because i know it will