tweeter replacement

[jrobie79 10+ year member]

I have a set of the PPI 356cs and for what ever reason, cant figure it out, one of my tweeters **** the bed; other one works fine, wires have continuity, so w/e. I havent had much luck finding replacements specific to that set, so I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations of what I should use to replace them....any input appreciated.

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[got-one-eight 10+ year member]

What was the ohm rating and x-over setting on the current tweets?

 

[jrobie79 10+ year member]

do you know where I could find this info? i looked in the manual but dont see anything.....I emailed PPI but as usual there customer service *****, and I havent heard anything back

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

did you swap the working tweeter and non-working tweeter? it may be that the crossover has a bad cap.

PPI was bought out, blame the parent company.

Montebello, Calif. — Precision Power (PPI), the popular amplifier brand of the early ’90s, was purchased from Directed Electronics by Epsilon Electronics for an undisclosed sum.
Epsilon also owns brands including Power Acoustik, Farenheit, SPL, Kole Audio and Soundstream Technologies.

 

[jrobie79 10+ year member]

Yeah I swapped the good tweeter to the other side and it works fine, everything checks out aside from the tweeter itself, checked amp settings and head unit settings, its all equal so as far as I can tell its just the tweeter

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

ok, then i recommend buying two replacement tweeters so they sound the same. make sure the impedance is the same. the frequency response will be similar if the domes are the same size. larger dome sizes are ok to use.

what to get depends on your budget. you can check Parts Express or Madisound for replacement tweeters.

 

[jrobie79 10+ year member]

I just emailed that epsilon electronics and they are turkeys over there too, basically told me they dont have parts for that set and they don't know the specs.

 

[jrobie79 10+ year member]

just found this information out:

freq response: 60Hz - 22kHz

sensitivity: 87db

impedence: 4 ohms

Fs: 65.96 Hz

Re: 3.4 ohms

Qms: 5.91

Qes: .65

Qts: .58

L1: .5

Vas (L): 7.38

Mms (Kg): .13

Cms: .437

Bl: 5.38

Xmax: .11328

 

[BnGRacing 10+ year member]

Take a couple pics of the tweeter w/o the grill and post it here. Don't use your craptastic cell phone camera either; use a digital camera and get some in-focus close ups. There's a 100% chance that PPI didn't make those tweeters and there's probably something similar, if not exact, you can get OTC.

 

[jrobie79 10+ year member]

 

[jrobie79 10+ year member]

bump

 

[BnGRacing 10+ year member]

Vifa OC25SC65-04 1" Textile Dome Tweeter

Try these Vifa tweets (PN OC25SC65-04)

 

[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

i got some cheap ppi tweets id sell you for 25 shipped brand new

 

[Papermaker85 5,000+ posts]

I have some Cdt drt26 silk domes for 50$..

 

[jrobie79 10+ year member]

Bump