Tweeter question because i dont get it

[Theride 10+ year member]

why the hell my driver side tweeter always blow? Ive gone through about 5 set of tweeters now since last summer. It blow whether or not I used the passive cross over.

I had a set of pioneer 6x9 coaxial since maybe 2004 and those thing always play. no matter what beating i give them

are components more fragile than coaxial? Im giving these things 125 per side and the component set is suppose to take 200 tops 125 rms.

How are you guys giving yall sets 200 and 250 watts and not blow your tweets?

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[Blasphemy 10+ year member]

Clipping maybe. What comps and amp?

 

[Theride 10+ year member]

Clipping maybe. What comps and amp?

ID passive crossover. ID tweeter. Rainbow mid. MB Quart 4125 amp. PLus that amp gets hotter than hot sand.

 

[Theride 10+ year member]

I dont want to go back to coaxial but it seems thats where i gotta try next.

 

[Blasphemy 10+ year member]

Did you set the gain with a DMM or O-Scope?

 

[Theride 10+ year member]

Did you set the gain with a DMM or O-Scope?

i set it by..radio 3/4. turn up amp till distort a little. then back off on the amp.

but why the left side always crap out first?

 

[Blasphemy 10+ year member]

i set it by..radio 3/4. turn up amp till distort a little. then back off on the amp.
but why the left side always crap out first?

Don't know.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

i set it by..radio 3/4. turn up amp till distort a little. then back off on the amp. but why the left side always crap out first?

Thats why right there. Just because you go 3/4 of the way and turn it down until you cant hear an audible distortion doesnt mean there isnt clipping going on. Set with a DMM is safer than by ear and reduces the chance of clipping, but an O-Scope is the only way to set without any chance of clipping.

 

[stocker08 10+ year member]

Be safe. Set gains around half or less.

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

ID passive crossover. ID tweeter. Rainbow mid. MB Quart 4125 amp. PLus that amp gets hotter than hot sand.

And that doesn't seem like a problem to you?

Be safe. Set gains around half or less.

You can easily still clip an amp with the gain set at less than half, don't open your mouth if you don't know what your talking about //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

You can easily still clip an amp with the gain set at less than half, don't open your mouth if you don't know what your talking about //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

Took the words right out of my mouth.

 

[Theride 10+ year member]

And that doesn't seem like a problem to you?


You can easily still clip an amp with the gain set at less than half, don't open your mouth if you don't know what your talking about //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

whats the problem there? I understand the mid is different but the crossover and tweeter were made for each other.

im still learning this audio thing but it hurts the pocket when you have to learn the hard way.

 

[supermaxx123 10+ year member]

distortion isn't where clipping starts as stated. Try swithcing the tweeter from the right to the left see if it blows, maybe there's a short or something in your wire.

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

whats the problem there? I understand the mid is different but the crossover and tweeter were made for each other.
im still learning this audio thing but it hurts the pocket when you have to learn the hard way.

Sorry, I meant to bold part of that quote, I was focusing on the fact that your amp gets hot. That's a red flag that something is wrong. It might get warm but it should really never get hot.

 

[ciaonzo 5,000+ posts]

You're less likely to blow your tweeters if they have their own channel of amplification. This can be facilitated either by using passive crossovers that can be bi-amplified, or by using the active filters in your head unit or amplifier, whichever the case may be.