How To Increase Power Handling of Tweeter?

[1Michael]

I have searched but cannot find what Jon Marsh wrote about halving the value of the tweeter resister? cap? and putting 2 of them together so it can handle more power. Can someone point me to the article? Thanks.

[ThomasW]

Don't know about the post.

If you want to increase with power handling use twice the resistance and wire them in parallel.

For example if you need a 6 ohm resistor, buy 2-12's and wire them in parallel. That will double the power handling and give you a 6 ohm resistor.

[1Michael]

Excellant. That's what I was looking for. Thanks Thomas :T

[Dave Bullet]

That will increase the power the resistors can dissipate as heat, but that doesn't necessarily mean your tweeter will handle the power.

Steeper HP slopes or higher HP XO point (with the same slope) is the way to increase the power handling of the system and thereby get more out of a tweeter.

David.

[Sakura]

With tweeters, if you want more power handling, don't wire them in parallel, wire them in series. If you put two tweeters in series, they can handle twice the power of one tweeter.

Oh, btw, don't try this unless you have close CTC spacing :P It CAN be done successfully, but I bet not many here have seen it other than in line arrays which are prob. not designed in such a way that lobing isn't an issue...