2002 OEM tweeter 22Khz?

Guy's

I'm upgrading my door speakers and the factory tweeter has an in series 1.8 uf bi-polar filter cap on it. That calculates to 22Khz. Can I install the 6.5 lower speaker, just use the factory harness and leave these connected with my new head unit? Using the search tool I couldn't find a definitive answer, guess it couldn't hoit leaving it connected.

Stephen

 

I did for many years

 

KNABORES,

Thanks , if there is too much high frequencies I can always disconnect them

Stephen

 

A single 1.8uf cap would be 22khz for a 4 ohm tweeter, but that xover frequency would make the driver virtually useless since the upper limits of human hearing are usually 17-20khz. It’s not completely out of the realm of possibility if the xover designer is padding the tweeter with a single cap, but you have a downward tilting response the entire spectrum, which is not ideal in 99% of situations.

However, if the tweeter is 8 ohms (I’d wager it isn’t 4 ohms), it would set the xover point to 11khz, which is usable enough for a single order stock tweeter crossed to a woofer run wide open. You are 6 db down at 5.5khz, 12 db at 2700hz, 18db at 1350hz, and 24db at 675hz. It would typically be unobtrusive to use with a new 6.5” woofer so long as the tweeter efficiency isn’t much higher than that of the woofer.

 

blenton,

thanks for the info but 4ohm is stamped on the tweeter magnet. I have a set of 5k 12db crossovers that could be used to bypass the factory bipolar inline cap.

Stephen