Can I Use a Focal 4 Ohm Crossover with a 2 Ohm Orion Midbass

[Tone]

Will this burn out my crossover - does anyone have any suggestions or knowledge about doing something like this?

Thanks

[1moreamp]

The crossover point will be off

Try this link to see what happens to crossover points at different ohm loads:

http://www.carstereo.com/help/Articles.cfm?id=1


This one is better if you want to build your own:

http://www.apicsllc.com/apics/Misc/filter2.html


Just goggle speaker crossover design you will get a couple dozen great hits from that

[Tone]

So as long as I compensate the crossover point with the ZPX2 it should be okay even if I ran as low as 1 ohm... right?

[1moreamp]

So as long as I compensate the crossover point with the ZPX2 it should be okay even if I ran as low as 1 ohm... right?

Check you crossover components and see what frequency they rate at, at different loads, after a while they become worthless for doing anything you wanted in circuit and thus useless. I don't think you want useless components in the way of your music.
So dropping speaker loads on 4 ohm crossovers becomes self defeating as you get closer to 1 ohm. The components are still there just not doing anything you want them to do, so the reason for having them in circuit sorta goes out the window. I hope you follow what I am saying


Oh the crossover components will survive but you speaker voice coils may not, mostly due to the speakers being operated out of there proper ranges.

[Tone]

Excellent information. Thanks!

[nick-caper]

The frequency cutoff will be HIGHER. it will probably sound like poo. I tried doing this. It sounded bad cause the load was way off.

[ericb]

if you only hook just the +'s up it will work at 6db per octave

[nick-caper]

Um I think you have to rephrase that. Cause you need both neg and pos to have a speaker work!

[Mastiff]

nick ..... let it go man .... wasted effort with this one