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Re: Rise in Spl with third order 11 khz high pass around 5.5khz [message #33705 is a reply to message #33702] Wed, 15 August 2001 17:55 Go to previous message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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You don't want shunt inductors across piezo tweeters. They're piezoelectric devices, which are fundamentally capacitive. So by putting a coil across them, we are building a reactive resonator also known as a tank circuit. And parallel tank circuits have minimum impedance which approaches zero at their resonant frequency, which is determined by the formula:

Fr = 1 / 2 * Pi * √LC

So what you'll find is that there is a frequency where the impedance of the system drops to zero with the coils installed. It also means that the current through the tweeter approaches infinity, so naturally you'll expect a puff of smoke to accompany this frequency. Even if it's outside of the audio bandwidth by a considerable margin, I'd still discourage use of coils across this tweeter. Amplifier oscillation or the impulse of power-on or power-off surges could very well excite the system into resonance and make a nice demonstration of pyrotechnics for you.

 
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