I can get a super deal on some Rainbow components today and i want to install them tonight. Is it possible to utilize the power being sent to the rear doors to power the mids in the front door and then use the power from the front door to power the tweeters in the dash without an active crossover? Makes me wonder what to do with the passive crossovers.

I wish mercman still made his harness/balun available...has anyone used any of the audiocontrol solutions successfully?

 

That might work. I would assue the rear doors are only high-passed, and at a frequency much lower than you would ever want your tweeters to play.
Your going to need a crossover, so you could try to hook up the passive that was supplied with the set and only use the tweeter output.
What rainbow set did you get? In my experience they like a decent amount of power.

 

Base or Tech TSX?

 

Jeff its a tech package tsx....i just picked up a set of rainbow comps with a 90db sensitivity and dont want to fool around with amps/harnesses, etc if i didnt have to.

Thanks

 

One the tech the front door and tweeter are feed from the same channel on the factory amp, There is a cap on the back of the tweeter for the cross over. To bi-amp, you would need to take the signal from the door speaker to feed the tweeter and mid bass via a 4 channel amp.
Jeff

 

Jeff..would u happen to know if the 2010 non tech has separate channels for the tweeter and front door speakers or if its also coming out of one channel?.. i know the 2012 non tech the tweeter and speaker have separate channels.

 

The 2nd gen “non-techs” or premium systems use the same setup as the first gens where you have an amp channel for each speaker including the tweeters. The xover is in the amp.

Jeff