Re: Speaker wiring question

[Cynic5KS@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/28/99 3:09:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pchandyman@intrex.net writes:

> > It is only a 2 channel passive crossover...   The way the OEM crossover
>  > appears to be wired it 2 input wires (+/-) and 3 output wires
>  > (hi+/low+/common -) [if I remember correctly]...
>  > If you are installing aftermarket speakers, and you have a 3 channel
>  output
>  > crossover, how/where are you installing the 3 speakers?
>  >
>  > Arden
>  
>      All placements are in factory locations... The 4" Goes into the dash,
>  The 6" and the tweet go into the door. Is there some other setup? I only 
ask
>  because the crossover seemed to have too few wires, and I thought someone
>  would know BTDT. I'm hoping to get away with not wiring anything... (that
>  would be bliss)
>  
>  PS- I'll soon put up some photos of the car (with the stereo) on my site. I
>  have been lame lately, and I haven't done anything with it.
>  
>  -Noah

To me, it appeared as if the crossover that came with the car in the door is 
only a 2 channel output (I believe the stock in-dash speaker is a full 
range).  If you are installing 3 new speakers in the stock location, you are 
better off using the crossover that came with the speakers anyway... If they 
all came in the same box, the crossover was designed for those speakers... 
The cutoff frequencies in the stock crossover and an aftermarket crossover 
are different.

Sounds like you are going to have to do one of 2 things:

1. Mount the crossover in the door:  This will involve running one input into 
the door to the crossover, and one output back out the door to the in-dash 
speaker. (The other 2 outputs stay in the door).

2. Mount the crossover in the car: You only have to run the 2 outputs into 
the door for the 6" and the tweeter...

Hope this helps...