keep blowing tweeters

[crazyxbowler 10+ year member]

i have a problem with my tweeters blowing a lot. The ones I have now seem to be ok but they distort at cirtain notes so i am assuming they are blown. What is a good tweeter that will be hard to blow?

Thanks

John

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[TrlcKed_OuT 10+ year member]

make sure u have your crossovers set right!

 

[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

sounds like you have crossovers that are set too low, or the gain on your amp is too high.

 

[Intercooler 10+ year member]

I have a couple of posts myself on this. Are you putting a decent amount of power to them? I blew my CDT's last week. I am putting in a light bulb and thermistor that will open up if it gets hot so they won't blow. Good luck!

 

[Darth Audio 10+ year member]

Adding to the advice of using the proper crossover with your tweeters you can also fuse them. The formula is: the square root of wattage divided by resistance.

Example 200w/4ohms=50, square root of 50 is 7.07. Use a 7 amp fuse on the positive lead on each tweeter. However it doesn't prevent damage from clipped signals.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Before we recommend you new tweeters, you need to find out what you are doing to continually damage them. Otherwise, you're just going to keep blowing them.