HELP!!!! Door speakers quit working!

[EliteConcept]

I was going down the highway today , listening to Incubus, and I went to change some settings on my pioneer headunit to get a little bit more highs in the music...

suddenly my door speakers all 4 at the same time, just quit working! HOWEVER the tweeters and SUB still work.........they are both amplifed

what would cause ONLY the door speakers to quit working????

I checked the harness behind the radio and it seems ok, its just weird that i was messing with the settings and that made them cut out...... I am affraid that i blew the power supply for the door speakers in the cd player

help please

thanks
ryan

 

[Yng_pnk]

If they are both run off of the same this wont help. But i would check the power wire and ground for the amp that run the mids, second i would get a voltage tester or somt crappy speker and see if the outs on the deck are juiced. Is the wiring all done up professional? If you used electrical tape or just twised the lines then i would redo all of the wires that are like that and use some crimps. Also if you are using the outs on the deck i would try hoking the mids amp up to the sub outs or rear if you are using the fronts. Good luck, At least in aint your tranny

 

[EliteConcept]

heres the deal..
the cd player works just fine, just no sound from door speakers.......and they cut out when i was trying to adjust high and mid range sound


so
i just got in from testing the speakers,

i pulled out the cd player and where the connections are made there i placed wires from my little 200 watt pioneer amp, *which still works for sure, because the tweeters it powers still work* and all the speakers played just fine powered off the pionner amp

so i'm pretty sure the CD player internal amp is gone.

 

[88vert]

elite

That sucks What kind of headunit do you have?

 

[EliteConcept]

its a old as crap pioneer....

Hey can i run 4 door speakers and 2 tweeters on a 2 channel amp?

 

[88vert]

I dont see why not.Do you have crossover for the tweets?

 

[EliteConcept]

yea the have in line cross overs.

what would be the amplifer load

its a 2 channel amp.

i have 4, 4ohm door speakers
and 2 , 2ohm tweeters

i can't remember how to do this stuff.......
so the door speakers would be ran in pairs
so the load would be 8ohm for each side.
being in parellel with the amp brings it down to 4ohms, right?
add in the tweeters and it seems like it should be ok,
the amp at 4ohms puts out 40 watts rms which is good
even if i have to leave the tweeters out for now i will do that. this sucks

 

[88vert]

better ask Lee

 

[EliteConcept]

LEEJEN HELP!!!

how can i wire 4, door speakers each 4 ohm
and 2 tweeters (4ohm each)

and what would be my load on my amp?

thanks

 

[leenjen]

Originally posted by EliteConcept
LEEJEN HELP!!!

how can i wire 4, door speakers each 4 ohm
and 2 tweeters (4ohm each)

and what would be my load on my amp?

thanks

if you just hook up the 4 door speakers, you will get more ouput from the amp. hook up two speakers (parallel) on each channel. that will be 2 ohms stereo and will be the most efficient way. you wont be able to fade front to rear.

you can hook up all the speakers but the amp wont put out as much power and it wont play as loud (the sound probably wont be as good either). but if you want to, the best way to do it is:
wire the tweeters in series with the rear door speakers. then wire them in parallel with the front door speakers.

 

[EliteConcept]

Leejen,

ok

so take a postive lead from 2 speakers and connect it to 1 postive on the amp. Do the same with the negative.

then do the same for the other 2 speakers.

this will give me a 2 ohm load?

also if my bookelet for my amp says RMS power 50W x 2 at 2ohms. Does this mean that each speaker *if wired correctly* will get 50 watts?


thanks buddy
i'm really loosing it here!

 

[EliteConcept]

ok
went out today to run the wires to my amp.. thought i'd give it one last try.....and bam it worked...

what has gotten in to my cd player

could it be yesterday it was really hot here, i had all my windows up...and i went to leave and it was about 100degrees in my truck, i started it and cranked the cd player.....could the cd player amp went into thermal shut down?

i can't explain it........the crazyness

 

[leenjen]

yeah, inside the dash can get very hot. if you have a chance, take out your cd player and make sure all the wires aren't bunche dup around it. reach up under the das and try to pull them down. the more room that the cd player has, the better it will perform.

 

[kardinal]

i blew up a few door speakers a month ago, simply because my subs are amplified and they werent (they were stock tho) i still dont have any money to fix'em. hehehe.