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Old Jan 11, 2004 | 12:17 PM
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I originally bought a set of Panasonic 2-way component speakers for my doors. I managed to crush one of the tweeters in the door during the install Bought some Pioneers tweeters to replace them instead. The Panasonics came with bass blockers (for the tweeters) instead of a real crossover, which I'm continuing to use.

Here's my question: Are the speakers running at 4 ohms?
Old Jan 12, 2004 | 04:40 PM
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yes, they are.
Old Jan 12, 2004 | 05:15 PM
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Originally posted by Dukk:
Nominally yes. why wouldn't they be [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]
I see a lot of people thinking that the tweeter and mid are wired in series or parallel. That's probably what this guy is thinking.

It's also not uncommon to find 6 or 8 ohm tweeters in a comp set.
Old Jan 12, 2004 | 06:51 PM
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it's behing a capacitor.. therefor it would present the 4 ohm load of the midbass to the amp...
Old Jan 13, 2004 | 10:08 AM
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I'm a bit of a newbie so be gentle...

The speaker wire running from the HU is split so that the + goes to the + on the mid and + on the tweeter, and the - goes to the - on the mid and - on the tweeter. I thought I understood this to be a parallel connection which would in effect net a resistance of 2 ohms.
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