Showing posts with label crossover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crossover. Show all posts

Thursday, August 28, 2014

2 way Active Crossover

Therefore this architecture represents the simplest access I could booty and still get the adapted outcome.The band akin audio arresting enters the absorber area it is astern out of phase.This is to atone for the filters which will alter the appearance afresh appropriately abiding the arresting to it’s able phase. The filters are more-or-less accepted low and aerial canyon filters appropriately however, added capacitors and resistors accept been added in adjustment to get the altruism bottomward to a minimum appliance alone E12 components.


This alive Cantankerous over is adequately beeline forward. It consists of a absorber and two 3rd order, 18 dB per octave filters. One low canyon and the added high. The cantankerous over abundance is set at 2Khz and is advised for AEK’s 400watt per access PA/Keyboard Amp systems. Obviously alone one access is apparent here.

This ambit may not be of awfully abundant use to anyone as it was accurately advised to clothing the applications. It is not capricious or switchable for two reasons. Firstly, it didn’t charge to be back the backdrop of the apostle arrangement were already known. And secondly, the added complication was put into the accurateness of the crossover rather than it’s flexibility. The filters are akin in account to anniversary added as able-bodied as can be accepted appliance alone E12 components. If switching were to be active to accord a ambit of abundance options, a accommodation would accept to be fabricated on clarify accuracy.

The alone added way to accomplish a accepted crossover architecture and advance accurateness would apparently be to use Switched capacitor clarify architecture blocks. In theory, two 18or 24dB per octave filters could be complete such that they tracked anniversary added by actuality bound to the aforementioned clock. This would be a nice agreement but I haven’t had the befalling to prove this technology for this affectionate of application. My primary affair was the breach through of switching babble appliance such a design.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Crossover For Subwoofer

The crossover network is intended for use when an existing audio installation is to be extended by the addition of a subwoofer. Often, this additional loudspeaker is one that has been lying around for some time. If its frequency response extends down far enough, all is well and good, but a filter is then needed to cut off any frequencies above, say, 150 Hz. Often, a subwoofer network is an active filter, but here this would necessitate an additional power supply. The present network is a passive one, designed so that the speaker signal of the existing system can be used as the input signal.

Crossover For Subwoofer Circuit diagram:

Crossover

 Crossover Circuit Diagram For Subwoofer

Since the bass information is present in both (stereo) loudspeakers, the signal for the sub woofer can simply be tapped from one of them. The network is a 1st order low-pass filter with variable input (P1) and presettable cut-off frequency (P2). The signal from the loudspeaker is applied to terminal ‘LSP’. Voltage divider R1-R2-P1 is designed for use with the output signal of an average output amplifier of around d 50 W. The crossover frequency of the network may be varied between 50 Hz and 160 Hz with P2. The values of R3, P2, and C1, are calculated on the assumption that the subwoofer amplifier to be connected to K1 has a standard input resistance of 47 kΩ.

If this figure is lower, the value of C1 will need to be increased slightly. It is advisable to open the volume of the subwoofer amplifier fully and adjust the sound level with P1. This ensures that the input of the subwoofer amplifier cannot be overloaded or damaged. Make sure that the ground of the loudspeaker signal line is linked to the ground of the subwoofer amplifier. If phase reversal is required, this is best done by reversing the wires to the subwoofer. If notwithstanding the above additional protection is desired at the input of the subwoofer amplifier, this is best effected by ‘overload protection ’ elsewhere in this site.

Author: T. Giesberts Copyright: Elektor Electronics