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- From: kmr4@po.CWRU.edu (Keith M. Ryan)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
- Subject: Re: Crossover impedance
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:40:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.215448.13606@scott.skidmore.edu> jreiser@scott.skidmore.edu (Jason Reiser... Asleep) writes:
- >> I have two mono, two-way passive crossovers (xo pt. is 3kHz, -12dB/
- >> octave). The box says that the crossovers are "8 ohms". I assume
- >> that this means that to an amplifier, they appear as 8 ohm loads.
- >> But how is the power actually distributed? Specifically, if I have
- >> 30 watts into 4 ohms being delivered to this crossover which calls
- >> itself 8 ohms, which then sends the signal to a 4 ohm woofer and a
- >> 4 ohm tweeter, what power is delivered to the woofer and to the
- >> tweeter?
- >
- >You've got the concept a bit confused...
- >Actually, the crossover is not a load and as such will not have any
- >particular impedance.
-
- exsqueeze me?
-
- Capacitors and Inductors very much have inpedences.
-
- The impedence of a capacitor is : Z(c)=1/(jwC)
- The Impedence of an inductor is : Z(l)=jwL
-
- Now, depending on how you connect then, you figure the total impedence.
-
- Think about it, if a capacitor is blocking bass, it much be acting
- as an impedence source at low frequencies ( you can think of it as sort of a
- resistance at low freq. not quite correct, but you get the picture ). The
- inductor is the opposite. It has a high impedence at high freqencies.
-
- >The impedance listed on the crossover is
- >instead the speaker impedance that will give standard performance of
- >-12db/octave at 3kHz.
-
- This is correct. The listed impedance is not the impedance of the
- crossover, rather, the compatable speaker impedance.
-
- >If you use this with 4 ohm speakers, you will
- >alter the crossover points.
- >As for power delivered through a crossover, the crossover shouldn't
- >absorb any power... save a small loss to heat... but if this crossover
- >were wired to an 8 ohm woofer and 8 ohm tweeter via a 30x2 amp, each
- >speaker would see 30 watts in the appropriate frequency range for that
- >speaker.
-
- Sort of, but you really ought to view it as a power per frequency curve.
- From the low end to about 2.5 kHz, the woofer will have 30 watts. The woofer
- will get about 15 watts at 3 kHz ( -3dB point ), axp .9 watts at 6kHz ( 12
- dB's down from 15 watts ). Of course, this is assuming a flat response, with
- no equalization, etc. Music fluctuates, so the woofer may have more power in
- the bass, than at 2kHz.
-
-
- >Hope that helps,
- > - Jason
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