Hey,

I just got some tweeters, 200watt 25rms and I connected them and then none of my speakers work now.

I think I connected them right.

One tweeter and one front speaker together then the other front speaker and tweeter together. Then I turn the deck on and nothing comes out. When I had one tweeter connected it was working but 2 I get nothing.

Anyone know what I've done wrong?

If you had one working and when you plugged the other in, neither of them did. Try switching them and see if there's aproblem with the "other" one

ie: If you had the L one connected and working, then the R one killed them both, try unplugging the L one and see if the R one works on its own.

It could be a dud speaker that's shorting out or something and throwing a fuse. Oh yeah, check fuses :P

fuses are all good, im just thinking maybe im supposed to connect both tweeters to the same speaker?

i'll try your above suggestion tho as soon as I am motivated enough to venture outside.

try pming magnat or eek or megatron and get there advice

You'll need either capacitors or crossovers for your tweeters, you shouldn't be putting full range into them. So try using a cross over instead of connecting them in series.

Ok I gather that you have The Tweeters connected to your main Woofers, did you match Positive to Negative correctly on both sides ??
You may have to Check your wiring as by the sounds of it you have a short...


In all possibility you may have over loaded the internal Amp...

If one Tweeter and woofer work and the other side doesn't then in all possibility there is a short in your wiring..

Need a bit more details as to what head unit, What Tweeters and what your main woofers are.. , when you connect them do your rears work or none at all.

They will both work irrespective of polarity.

Where are the tweeters from? Generally with tweeters u use a crossover to filter out unwanted low frequencies which will damage the tweeter ~>2khz depending on tweeter.
Some tweeters have internal caps to filter out these (however poorly it should still do the job)

In this case you can connect directly to the terminals of the woofer. Running in parallel from ur headunit. But will sound ghey as it's just using the tweeters natural roll off

Throw us some more specs

Peace

Tim

there working fine now, I had run the wire under where the trans knob is, the wires must've been touching metal or something, but I taped them up and ran them along the carpet all is working good now. thanx for the input anyways.

DOn't ya love shorts.... :doubt:

Are you still running them without a crossover?

dude, if they are 4ohm speakers & 4ohm tweeters, & u hook them up in parrallel, u now have a 2ohm load... I dunno bout you, but I've never heard of a 2ohm stable Head unit. Chances are you're either overloading or already blown the HU internal amp.

Good luck either way.

Maybe he wants a new head unit and just needs an excuse to buy it! Did you think of that? Noooo...

I don't even know why i'm still replying to this thread, he solved his problem anyways, i'm just here to drag it on...

dude, if they are 4ohm speakers & 4ohm tweeters, & u hook them up in parrallel, u now have a 2ohm load... I dunno bout you, but I've never heard of a 2ohm stable Head unit. Chances are you're either overloading or already blown the HU internal amp.

Good luck either way.

sh*t, maybe i'll take them out then.

Tweeters hardly put enough stress on the head unit, you should be fine..
If you were running a Speaker that draws major current to run then yes I would be worried but a Tweeter is hardly going to do severe damage... Look at the Standard Mitsubish 3rd Gen splits, they are both a 4 OHM speaker and it does no harm to the stock head unit..

shud I run the tweeters off the unit or the amp then? without hooking up tweeters with other speakers on the same line?

Maybe he wants a new head unit and just needs an excuse to buy it! Did you think of that? Noooo...


Surprisingly that's something I'd do.

If you continue to feed them full range signals they're gonna die. :(