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Users
are sometimes a little confused what
the InTNaT does. Its job is to sum a crossover's outputs, do it differentially, and provide some
protection for the NaTKiT and PC.
The
InTNaT sums a crossover's outputs so they can be tested in one
operation. You
might get some result like in this sketch. You would expect the high pass
output to be lower than the low pass because tweeters are usually more sensitive
than bass drivers. What quite will happen in the crossover region will
depend on the particular crossover.
Some users have products that mostly sum like our sketch above but the
odd model goes through the crossover transition smoothly. When testing
these oddities they purposely connect one output out of phase to get a response
with a suck out like the others and so not worry the operator! This is not an unreasonable thing to
do as the NaTKiT
tests comparatively.
You
might have a circuit like this to do the summing but ...
if
there were an open circuit in the common line of the low pass section then there
would still be a path as shown by the red link; and the crossover wouldn't show
as faulty, but ...
if you use differential
amplifiers then there is no common path and the open circuit is detected.
When
testing crossovers you are squirting the output of a power amplifier, perhaps
even a mighty power amplifier, into the NaTKiT via maybe a single reactive
component. It has never happened yet but if something did go wrong the
InTNaT would sacrifice itself and save the NaTKiT and PC.
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