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Old 05-23-2019, 11:27 AM
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Forgive my stupidity on the subject as I have done numerous car installs and been messing with car audio for quite some time. Looking at these newish ProAudio coax like the Beyma 6CX200FE. It appears they have connections for the High Frequency driver and also the woofer/midrange portion. Both drivers being 8ohm and the power rating being significantly different (woofer - 150w & Tweeter 20w). At first I would assume to wire them in parallel to obtain an 4ohm load, however, the wattage each can take is drastically off. Do you use two different amps? Wire the woofers on one channel parallel with each other and adjust the gain and wire the tweeters parallel with each other and barely crack the gain?? Is there a book I can read lol. I'm used to regular coax and component speakers.

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Best option would be to likely use two amps.

Also, the FE probably won't fit in the fairing if that's the plan. Probably going to need the Nd version as it has a much smaller magnet assembly. This is just me speculating though.

If it were me, I'd wire each woofer in parallel to a 4 ohm load and each horn the same way.
 
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The other Option on this is to use the specific Beyma crossover for that model speaker. It's pricey but simplifies things. Check out US Speaker's website for the model.
 
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Also, ensure you have some type of passive x-over or dsp in place to limit frequencies on both portions of the speaker. There are no built in caps/resistors.

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