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Need an Electronics education [message #67521] Tue, 15 December 2009 15:10 Go to next message
ljdavick is currently offline  ljdavick   United States
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I've just ordered some replacement speakers for the front cap. They came with picture instructions (totally worthless) and two capacitors (my guess). The printing on the capacitor says that they are bipolar and rated at 50V 100uF.
I have no idea what they are for, but I'm guessing that they will block the lower frequencies, since these little 3.5 inch speakers won't be used as sub-woofers!
Anyone care to hold class and let me know what to do with these, or should I toss them?


Larry Davick
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Re: Need an Electronics education [message #67533 is a reply to message #67521] Tue, 15 December 2009 16:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chr$ is currently offline  Chr$   United States
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They are there as crossovers, as you thought. To block the bass. Polarity does not matter.

Capacitors block DC, which bass is very low freq, and close to a DC signal as far as the voice coil is concerned.

A place to start your edjumacayshun...

http://www.passivecrossovers.com/


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Re: [GMCnet] Need an Electronics education [message #67553 is a reply to message #67533] Tue, 15 December 2009 17:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
ljdavick is currently offline  ljdavick   United States
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Good edumacayshun place!

Thanks,

Larry Davick
The Mystery Machine

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They are there as crossovers, as you thought. To block the bass. Polarity does not matter.

Capacitors block DC, which bass is very low freq, and close to a DC signal as far as the voice coil is concerned.

A place to start your edjumacayshun...

http://www.passivecrossovers.com/
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77 Ex-Kingsley 455: The Engineer's Motorhome
Scottsdale, AZ
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Larry Davick
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Re: Need an Electronics education [message #67578 is a reply to message #67521] Tue, 15 December 2009 21:52 Go to previous message
JohnL455 is currently offline  JohnL455   United States
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If so you would wire them in series with the speaker to roll off the low freqs. Probably just provided to prevent overexcurding the small drivers with freqs below their usable range.

John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
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