| CCA Golden Toque
Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Ontario, Welland Posts: 1,707
| I think that most tweeters come with a capicitor built in. All that a capacitor does is it "eliminates" low frequencies allowing high frequencies to pass through. So adding another capacitor won't do anything. To decrease the output of those tweeters you will want to place a resistor in line. A resistor with a value from 4 ohm to 20 ohm depending on how over-bearing the tweeters are. The highers the Ohm value of the resistor, the quieter the tweeter will be. Also, make sure the resistor can handle 5 or more watts of power.
For wiring, the resistor should be wired in series: positive wire from deck to one side of resistor, other side of resistor connects to speaker positive. Speaker negative connects to deck negative as usual.
If you don't have a capicitor on the tweeter (it will be a small tube like thing most likely mounted to the back/bottom of the tweeter; I think you will have one) but if you don't have one, it wires in series the same way as the resistor would.
I hope this helps.
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