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- From: James Tantram <gpz750@bnr.ca>
- Subject: Re: Magneplaner Question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.152939.28045@bnr.ca>
- X-Xxdate: Thu, 17 Dec 92 15:36:47 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:29:39 GMT
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- I've just spent most of Sunday measuring a friend's Maggie II's
- using the DRA MLSSA system and am now very familiar with its
- woofer and tweeter panels and its "crossover".
-
- The crossover is outrageously simple: 1st order/1st order;
-
- The low pass is simply an inductor working into the woofer panels
- 6 ohm impedance (below 3 kHz); above 3 kHz, the woofer
- panel Z rises to 12 ohms at 20 kHz, and the phase rotates
- accordingly: this is a pretty bad x-over design for a 1st order.
-
- The high pass is equally simple, being just a capacitor.
-
- Anyways:
-
- The only things that can cause you're drivers to crap out are:
-
- 1. shorting connections across the output-less drivers;
- 2. Blown fuse (you probably wired your fuse replacer incorrectly by the
- way);
- 2. open connections between driver section and inputs or
- crossover and driver;
- 3. fried inductors/capacitors (maybe the cap but highly unlikely
- for the inductor).
- 4. blown woofer or tweeter panels.
-
- Do not hook these speakers to your amp until you know the problem!!
- Any of these cause could lead to very low impedances and resultant
- amplifier damage!!
-
- Your best bet is to do the following:
-
- 0. make sure all connections are secure and non-shorting. If they are go
- to step 1.
- 1. Disconnect the woofer and tweeter panels from the crossovers but
- remember
- the polarity to the woofer and tweeeter (woofer positive will be
- connected
- to inductor, tweeter positive to capacitor : mark these wires!)
- 2. Connect the woofers directly to your amp's outputs and play some
- tunes.
- If any one side is dead, a woofer is cooked and your SOL. Use
- speakers
- as room dividers. If sound comes out of both channels, you're
- still OK. Go to step 3.
- 3. Disconnect woofers from amp.
- 4. Wire a 4.7 uF bipolar electrolytic capacitor in series with the
- positive
- lead on each tweeter panel. You now have a first order high pass/
- tweeter.
- 5. Connect the high passed tweeter panels to your amp. Play tunes.
- If any one channel is dead, we're back to room dividers. If both
- channels work you're in real good luck; the dead o/p's are either
- a connection problem or blown cross-over parts. Continue below.
- 6. The inductor's probably still ok, so wire it in series between the
- woofer's positive lead and the red bananna connector an the
- back. Wire the woofer -ve lead to the black bananna on the back.
- 7. Read the value off the side of the capacitors and replace with
- equal value poly-types.
- 8. Wire tweeters back up with new caps and fuse and enjoy!!
-
- Don't bother trying to replace either woofers or tweeters with
- Magneplaner items: the manufacturer wants $100's for just one
- panel!
-
-
- Good luck, I know what you're going through!!
-
- Dave ( P.S. I'm not "James": my user ID is screwed).
-