neccesary?

im thinking of one because my tweeters cut out at high volumes

 

do you have them crossed over? Are they powered by the deck?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by t0p_sh0tta &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">do you have them crossed over? Are they powered by the deck?</TD></TR></TABLE>

i have a coustic xm-6 but they arent on them now, waiting to run them on one side of my amp and then using a seperate channel on the x over for them

and HELL NO they are not powered by the deck

a punch 160.4 amp is playing the mids and tweets, i was thinking of using it just for the tweets

 

They probably have a protection circuit. They are cutting out because you are over driving them. 20-30 watts is more than enough for tweeters.

 

but they are rated at 150 rms and techinally they are getting 20 rms watts from my punch 160.4

EXPLAIN THAT!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jordan-boxer &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">but they are rated at 150 rms and techinally they are getting 20 rms watts from my punch 160.4

EXPLAIN THAT! </TD></TR></TABLE>

clipped signal

 

Like george said, your clipping the signal.

 

ok exactly how could i be doing that? and how to remedy it?

thanks for all the help i know im an idiot

 

ok so if 20-30 watts is enough for tweeters i should get an amp that pushes 20 -30 watts?

that would be kind of hard couldnt i just turn down my 160.4 and use it just for 4 tweeters

 

Exactly..... Get in your ride, turn amp gains all the way down. Turn your deck up most of the way(say max volume is 30, go to 27-28). Put in a nice, cleanly recorded track(no burned cd's). Slowly turn up the amp gains until it barely starts to distort, then back it off a little. Depending on the tweeters, set the crossover.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by HNDAPWR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Exactly..... Get in your ride, turn amp gains all the way down. Turn your deck up most of the way(say max volume is 30, go to 27-28). Put in a nice, cleanly recorded track(no burned cd's). Slowly turn up the amp gains until it barely starts to distort, then back it off a little. Depending on the tweeters, set the crossover.</TD></TR></TABLE>

ive done that many times and they still cut out, they cut out when the amp is at minumum at volume 30 out of 35

how am i cliping the signal as earlier said?

 

your headunit itself could be clipping.

 

hmm i thought about that, how can i be certain?

 

So you aren't using the crossovers? What are you using to high-pass the tweeters?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Xsi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">So you aren't using the crossovers? What are you using to high-pass the tweeters? </TD></TR></TABLE>

yeah i was using the crossovers that came with them, i blew one so im using the other one wothout the crossover, hope i blow it too

going to buy some dhd tweeters with crossovers

 

So are your tweeters running full range now? thats not good