I searched and found only where to install them, but now how hook them up. There are only wires out of the back of the deck for the fronts and the rears and RCAs for the subs, but where do I wire the tweeters? Sorry for being a newbie, thanks.
hey man, usually if you buy component speakers (tweeters and 6.5") they come with a crossover…at least mine did.
I think all you need to do is go to Best Buy or some place like that and tell them you need an inline converter…something like that… explain to the guy that you need to splice into the front wires…(somewhere close to the speaker for impedence reason i think), or just attach the contacts to the speaker contacts. The car guys can hook you up with a little part for like $4-6 that will filter out all the lows, or tell you where you might get it.
They have the same to filter out all the highs for subs if your head unit doesnt have the RCA’s in the rear. Thats what i can say too try for now.
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Go to radio shack a get a couple of non-polarized 11.3uf capacitors. Don’t know if they have that exact rating but get something close to that value. What you are going to do is build a simple high pass filter or crossover. What this does is allow only high frequencies to the tweeters and block the low frequencies which will surely damage the tweeters.
When you get these home, connect one end of the cap to the + lead of the tweeter. (These caps are non-plolarized which means there is no positive or negative ends) At the other end of the cap connect the lead to a length of speaker wire. Extend the (-) lead of the tweeter with a length of wire.
Now pick up the tweeter and look at it. The wire without the cap will be connected the (-) wire on the front left speaker. The wire with the cap will be connected to the (+) of the front left speaker.
Repeat for the front right speaker.
FYI. You’re crossover point for this cap value is around 3.5k
if i had tweeters on before that are removed, i should just be able to replace the tweeter speaker w/o doing anything else right?
if i had tweeters on before that are removed, i should just be able to replace the tweeter speaker w/o doing anything else right?
Yes, only if they were connected to a 2-way crossover or had an inline capacitor on the (+) lead of the tweeters. tweeters can’t handle the lower frequencies and will blow without the crossover or capacitor.
Thanks guys.