Blown Tweeter?

[thehoe92]

Driving around yesterday and I take a left turn and my right side speakers go out.

Get home and check the mid and tweeter playing fine at a low level.

Too late to do anything so come outside today to check them and I have had a problem with my right ear so maybe that was the reason so I listen with my left ear and both work at low level.

Turn it up and the tweeter distorts and crackles almost like it isn't plugged in all the way.

Turn it back down and now it doesn't work at all

Take out my a-pillar and plug it in to my stereo in my room and it still plays.

I'm very confused on this one.

Surely its not the amount of watts I am only putting 15 RMS to a 100 watt RMS tweeter

[SQMonte]

I blew a tweeter sometime this past week too...My comp set is rated to handle 65w rms, i'm giving my tweeter 85w rms, it didn't like it very much. I wired up my Rainbow tweets and it sounds better now, alot better.

[thehoe92]

Well checked it again yesterday and it is indeed blown.

Reading like 275 ohms or something like that

[EricR]

don't feel bad i blew both pairs of my orion tweeters last week

[thehoe92]

I'm just glad I had 2 more tweeters that I haven't used yet.

I think I might have been clipping them and the tweeters are obviously going to be the first to go.

fixed up my settings it should be fine now.