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mrsteele73 
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Posted: July 19, 2014 at 11:04 AM / IP Logged  
Hey guys, so I installed a set of CDT Audio HD-62 components in my 2005 Mazda 6i, hooked up to the front channels of a JL Audio 900/5 amplifier. Have a Pioneer head unit.
So I made a stupid mistake, and got the wires going to the drivers door tweeter and woofer mixed up. Realized that after turning on the system to start checking things, and noticing how bad the drivers door components sounded compared to the passenger side door. Maybe a couple of minutes, at low to medium volume levels. Shut everything back down and checked my wiring, found those wires crossed and hooked them up correctly at the crossover. Turned the system back on, and thankfully, the tweeter was unharmed. But, no sound from the woofer. After verifying connections were ok and still no sound, I hooked up the woofer by itself to a different source that I knew worked, and still nothing.
So my question is, can having the tweeter output hooked up to a midrange woofer really fry it that fast?
I am going to take the woofer out today for more troubleshooting, but wanted to ask this first on here. Thanks for any input guys.
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Posted: July 20, 2014 at 6:59 PM / IP Logged  
I do not see any way that you could have damaged the driver. The Tweeter, yes, but not the mid/woofer
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Posted: July 22, 2014 at 6:22 PM / IP Logged  
Didn't damage it at all. Couldn't. Period. Not in a few minutes, not in weeks. :)
Sounds like you had a defective driver from the beginning.
It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

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