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I bought 2 new 3 way crossovers for my speaker set. I wired the woofer to the W+ W - of the crossover as well as the tweeter to the T+ T- and the mid range to the H+ H-.(the pos and neg terminals on the crossover are in this order, HH,TT,WW). The woofer and tweeter sound perfect and are loud in volume, the 10" woofer im using as a midrange is very low and faint in volume(but sounded far louder when wired to Midrange of my older crossover). What does H H mean on a 3 way crossover?, is it for midrange or ? I did a test and wired the tweeter to the H H, and the volume was also very low and faint but loud on T T, anyone have an idea why? What does H H stand for? Cant find answer on google search. Heres the specs for the crossovers-3-way passive crossover 8 ohm Woofer Frequency: 20Hz-500HzMidrange - 500HZ-4.5KHZTweeter - 4.5KHZ-20KHZ600 watts RMS/1200 watts peak each













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Need pictures of both sides of the crossover.
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^Above is the crossover. Cant find pix of back and dont have camera. I wonder if this new crossover is defective or the H H terminal is 3/4 burnt out? Or is that the way H H is supposed to sound-its very low in volume and faint when mid or tweeter is wired to it and wat does h h stand for? if anyone has an idea, thanks.








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stick the mid driver on it for testing and figure it out ? less likely to damage it . No idea , perhaps means something in another language ? ... If you read them upside down it could almost read M L H ?
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Yes, swap mid and top (tweeter to H and mid to T) and see what happens.


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Originally posted by Earplug Earplug wrote:

Yes, swap mid and top (tweeter to H and mid to T) and see what happens.
Yes i switched mid range with tweeter(wired mid range to T+T- and tweeter to H+H-) and the mid range sounds much louder and tweeters very low in volume, this proves its not my midrange speaker but the H H thats sending very low volume. The h h of this crossover may be faulty or 3/4 burnt out. AND by the pix and specs of this crossover pair, are they 8 ohms each or 4 ohms? and is it 6 db or 12 db?


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Not sure if this is helpful but the U.K convention colour coding for wiring signal from crossover to amp racks is

Red = Low
Yellow =Low Mid
Green = High Mid
Blue = High
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Originally posted by nicr nicr wrote:





Originally posted by Earplug Earplug wrote:

Yes, swap mid and top (tweeter to H and mid to T) and see what happens.
Yes i switched mid range with tweeter(wired mid range to T+T- and tweeter to H+H-) and the mid range sounds much louder and tweeters very low in volume, this proves its not my midrange speaker but the H H thats sending very low volume. The h h of this crossover may be faulty or 3/4 burnt out. AND by the pix and specs of this crossover pair, are they 8 ohms each or 4 ohms? and is it 6 db or 12 db?


What about the frequencies? Can you notice the different bands? Do they sound right? Maybe you should just send the xover back and get your money back.


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Originally posted by 4D 4D wrote:

Not sure if this is helpful but the U.K convention colour coding for wiring signal from crossover to amp racks is 
Red = Low Yellow =Low Mid Green = High Mid Blue = High 
The blue wire as picture of crossovers show is wired to H, which is supposed to be mid, but as you pointed out blue is for highs. I did contact seller and he said H H is for high midrange, T T is for tweeter. The freqs for W and T sound perfect, for H it sounds good on mid range but very faint, H wired to tweeter sounds slightly higher pitched than when tweeter is wired to T but very faint. TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE the white retangular item on crossovers get extremely hot like its ready to burn. It must be faulty, time to ask for a refund. 




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"TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE the white retangular item on crossovers get extremely hot like its ready to burn. It must be faulty, time to ask for a refund. "

That is a 20W ceramic resistor and will get hot under normal use, but yes, no point messing around, just get a refund.



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