Possible blonde crossover question

[Andyman]

Im pretty poo when it comes to the ICE side of things but over a year back i got a mate to wire up my system and recently found that ive got the speakers pluged through only one active crossover.

Do you usually get 2 crossovers in a pack of components and if so, will there be any less sound quality with them being wired only through one ??



Cheers

 

[XXXChromeClioXXX]

Don't you mean passive cross-over.

Yes you normally get 2 in with the speakers.

Not sure what problems it could cause, maybe too much current passing though the components in the passive. I don't think it would cause a problem resitance wise

EDIT: I think you would be running mono instead in stereo as well

 

[Andyman]

Yeah passive cross-over, i think lol

What do they do anyway? I thought it was something to do with sound clarity

 

[XXXChromeClioXXX]

They sepearate the signal between the tweets and the mids. You would want low hz going to your tweets would ya they would die

 

[theduck]

Basically the only 'problem' would be as chromeclio said, potentially overloading the crossover, and you definately would be running Mono, not stereo.

 

[Andyman]

So its definitely worth me going out buying a 2nd one then ?

 

[theduck]

yes, but make sure its EXACTLY the same as the one provided with the speakers

 

[Dink]

i'd be thinking why the f**k did he only use one:S

 

[Brasseye]

how many pairs of wires are going to this crossover ?

 

[Andyman]

Off the top of my head im sure its 2 per port, 4 wires into it in total. Could be 8 wires tho. Been a long time since ive had the dash top off.

Whats the maximum amount of wires there meant to hold before they become ineffective at their intended job?

 

[Dink]

a x-over will have :

1 input pair
1 mid output
1 tweeter output

you should only connect one mid and one tweeter to one x-over(not including 3-way x-overs)

adding more will just kill the x-over as you will be pulling more current through it and losses will start to increase