Epic crossover

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      • January 22, 2025 at 4:27 am #56330

        Hey

        I’m new to the Forum, from Calgary in Canada!

        I’m looking to build a pair of Epics, to replace my Epos Elan 15 with Epos subs. I downloaded the plans but there’s not a lot of info about the crossover components. This is what I’m trying to determine:-

        Resistor type and wattage

        Capacitor voltage (250v ok?)

        Inductor wire gauge (14awg, 16awg etc?)

        Thanks

        • January 22, 2025 at 4:57 am #56332

          To figure this out, you need to look at the power levels you “can” use to drive these speakers. The Epic drivers are rated at 200 W RMS each and the tweeter is good for 75 W

          Conservatively, you can go with 400 W. At that level, the 14 G inductor will present a higher power handling and lower equivalent resistance – runs cooler. For the capacitor 250 V should be fine. In order to get even close to that voltage you’d have to be running over 10,000 W. You’ll be fine. The resistor should be fairly high power and be either wire wound or sandcast, 10-20 W. Reason these are lower powered is that there isn’t as much constant energy in the higher frequencies as in the lower (bass) frequencies.

            • January 22, 2025 at 2:37 pm #56341

              Hey, thank you!

              I assume it isn’t going to matter too much if I use 0.68mH instead of 0.7?

            • January 22, 2025 at 4:54 pm #56345

              Not much, just a slightly higher cutoff point that you most likely won’t notice at all when in place with the rest of the components. In fact, what I recommend doing is to download XSIM, the .frd and .zma files for the drivers, put the crossover schematic (as designed) into XSIM and save it. Then do a SaveAs (I like to add “real world” to the original name) and start shopping around for the closest value parts available and plug them in. That way you can see if there’s any major issue with parts values that you can actually get over the theoretical design numbers. That’s the process I used when I was helping Tonkers with his BTS 1.5 and the Focal mini.

              • January 22, 2025 at 5:01 pm #56346

                I like the idea of that. Might get too technical for me but I can certainly give it a try.

                Thanks for your help

                • February 2, 2025 at 6:37 am #56493

                  Just follow the links and bye related components

                    • February 2, 2025 at 11:08 pm #56500

                      If I did this right, this is the hifi speaker output from XSIM4, excluding circuitry, of course.

                      >>CSS Tweeter data generated using FPGraphTracer (Impedance data is missing the degrees data, so just assume that bit is incorrect)

                      >>edit 2: I forgot the passive radiators!!!

                      >>edit 3: I don’t think I can add passive radiators on this program.

                      • This reply was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by Big_Al. Reason: ZMA
                      • This reply was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by Big_Al. Reason: Passive radiators
                      • This reply was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by Big_Al. Reason: edit 3
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