Rockford Fosgate 5X - Manuals

Page 2 - PRACTICE SAFE SOUNDTM

Dear Customer, Congratulations on your purchase of America’s finest brand of car audio compo-nents. At Rockford Fosgate we are committed to musical reproduction at its best,and we are pleased you chose our product. Through years of engineering expertise,hand craftsmanship and critical testing proced...

Page 4 - PERATING; PROCards; -Way Selectable Electronic Crossover modules that; Channel Input on the Punch 2X; N T R O D U C T I O N

P U N C H 2X/3 X /5 X P A C K I N G L I S T Punch Electronic CrossoverOwner's Manual This manual provides information on the features, installation andoperation of the Punch 2X, 3X and 5X Electronic Crossover. Wesuggest you save this manual for future reference. We strongly recommend you have your A...

Page 5 - EMOVING; Punch 3X - Top Inside View

D E S I G N F E A T U R E S R EMOVING THE C OVER The design of the 2X, 3X and 5X allows the cover to be removed foraccess to the crossovers and ease of installation. The cover can beinstalled in either direction to match the rest of the system. The top endof the cover has two tabs which fit snugly i...

Page 6 - Punch 5X - Top Inside View; Gold Plated RCA Jacks

– 3 – Punch 5X - Top Inside View Rem B+ GND 7 8 6 2 7 1 Front Input Rear Input Front Output Front Dual-Filtered Output 3 Dual Filtered Non-Faded Output Rear Dual-Filtered Output Rear Output 1 4 5 1. Gold Plated RCA Jacks All input and output RCA jacks are gold plated. The gold platedfinish resists t...

Page 9 - • Connect source unit's OUTPUT jacks to the desired crossover; jacks to the Amplifier’s

M O U N T I N G A N D W I R I N G T H E E L E C T R O N I C C R O S S O V E R S – 6 – The information below describes the various considerations formounting and connecting the active crossovers. For additional infor-mation see the wiring diagrams beginning on page 10. We recommend mounting the cross...

Page 10 - PROC; A R D S; Punch 3X; Punch 2X

S E L E C T I N G T H E PROC A R D S – 7 – Punch 3X 100 Hz 100 Hz Output Output 100 Hz 100 Hz 100 Hz Blank Rear Output Dual Filtered Non-Faded Output Front Output Punch 2X The Punch 2X is shipped with 100Hz cards. The 3X is shipped with100Hz and blank programmable cards and the 5X is shipped with100...

Page 11 - Punch 5X

Punch 5X 6.5kHz 100Hz 100Hz 100Hz 6.5kHz Blank Blank Blank Front Output Front Dual Filtered Output Dual Filtered Non-Faded Output Rear Dual Filtered Output Rear Output – 8 – U S I N G T H E D U A L F I L T E R The Punch 3X and the Punch 5X both have Dual Filter sections. TheDual Filter is a two stag...

Page 12 - I L T E R

Example: The Punch 3X ships with three (3) 100Hz PROCards set inthe Full Range position. The crossover will pass through all 20Hz -20kHz frequencies. The following diagram shows examples of thetypes of response curves when programming for a High-Pass, Low-Pass or Bandpass setting. – 9 – Gain (dB) 20...

Page 13 - FIGURE 1

W I R I N G D I A G R A M S – 10 – ® ® ® ® Midrange/ Tweeter 2-Channel Amplifier 2-Channel Amplifier Source Unit 2X Crossover – + – + – + – + – + Midrange/ Woofer 4 Ω Low-Pass High-Pass High-Pass@ 12dB/octave slope Midrange/ Tweeter Low-Pass@ 12dB/octave slope 2 ® ® FIGURE 1 2X Basic System

Page 17 - X – 2-Way with Amplifier's Active Crossover; FIGURE 5

3X – 2-Way with Amplifier's Active Crossover ® ® Tweeter Subwoofer 4-Channel Amplifier with Crossover*** (High-Pass) (Low-Pass) 2-Channel Amplifier Source Unit 3x Crossover – + – + – + – + – + High-Pass Low-Pass High-Pass Low-Pass Summed Output@ 24dB/octave slope Tweeter Front High-Pass@ 12dB/octave...

Page 20 - FIGURE 8

5X – 4-Way System Tweeter 2-Channel Amplifier Source Unit 5x Crossover – + – + Tweeter Low-Pass@ 24dB/octave slope High-Pass@ 12dB/octave slope BandpassBoth rolloffs @ 12dB/octave slope Not Used Low-Pass Low-Pass Low-Pass High-Pass High-Pass Low-Pass High-Pass ® ® 2-Channel Amplifier – + – + ® ® Mid...

Page 21 - P P E N D I X; U I L D I N G; A R D; 0 to 60 Watt electronic soldering iron; Crossover Card; FULL

A P P E N D I X A B U I L D I N G A C U S T O M PROC A R D – 18 – The 3X and 5X both ship with blank cards which can be assembledto select any frequency you need for your system's design. Each cardis built using 4 capacitors and 4 resistors, the value of the resistorsdetermines the operating frequen...

Page 22 - Electronic Crossover Field Programmable Card Resistor Chart; Butterworth Alignment; Low Pass

Freq. R1 18.5Hz 390k Ohm 26Hz 270k Ohm 33Hz 220k Ohm 40Hz 180k Ohm 48Hz 150k Ohm 60Hz 120k Ohm 72Hz 100k Ohm 88Hz 82k Ohm 106Hz 68k Ohm 130Hz 56k Ohm 154Hz 47k Ohm 185Hz 39k Ohm 220Hz 33k Ohm 270Hz 27k Ohm 330Hz 22k Ohm 400Hz 18k Ohm 480Hz 15k Ohm 600Hz 12k Ohm 720Hz 10k Ohm 880Hz 8.2k Ohm 1.06kHz 6...

Page 23 - P E C I F I C A T I O N S

S P E C I F I C A T I O N S Maximum Input Level 2V RMS Input Impedance 20,000 Ω Maximum Output Level 2V RMS Output Impedance 500 Ω Frequency Response 20Hz to 20kHz+0dB –0.5dB Signal to Noise Ratio >105dB Distortion <0.02% THD + Noise Channel Separation >75dB Dimensions Punch 2X 4.8" x 2...

Page 25 - O T E S