travisc Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 the automotive bulbs that Al builds into his crossovers, are they in the tweeter section only? Will they gobble up any and all dc voltage that may slip past an amp? I am just curious how this works. I can handle a 5 on the amp tech scale as far as explanations go. Start talking feed back loops and all that and I might get a bit lost Thanks in advance Wayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chops Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 My father installed a small "automotive" fuse on the back of each of the CWs when he first bought them for protection of the whole speaker. They only came handy once, and that was when we were recording our pipe organ. He had the mics going to the Panasonic SV-3700 DAT recorder via a dbx mic preamp and a small 4-channel mixer. Well, to make a long story short, once we got done recording, he went to turn on the amp so we could here the recording, however he forgot that the mics were still on and when the speaker relay in the amp kicked on, we heard the loudest acoustic feedback ever... "wwwwwooooooooOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHPPPPPPPP - SNAP!!!" The "snap" was the fuses popping. And I honest don't remember ever seeing my father move as fast as he did that day. It was rather funny and we still look back on that day (about 15 years ago) and laugh about it on occation. Since I have been using the CWs, I have always bypassed those fuses. I see no reason to use them. For one, I do not do any recording, and two, I would have to be nearly deaf or in the next county to have to put enough power into them in order to blow those fuses. I can't even image dumping 10 full watts into these CWs and staying in the same room. OUCH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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