Less than one minute ago, I concluded an experiment. In series, I connected a .1uF Jupiter, copper foil/paper/wax capacitor, a Quart, 8 Ohm tweeter and the negative, of my Fluke multimeter(set to 2 VDC). Touching the multimeter’s positive lead to the + end of a 1.5V, C cell battery and the capacitor’s open lead, to the battery’s - end, results in a momentary(1-2 sec), 1.5VDC reading on my multimeter. Reversing the polarity, results in the same, every time. If there is full DC getting through, long enough for my multimeter’s digital display to recognize and register it, It’s difficult for me to believe, that(perhaps) 80VDC, from a toasted SS amp’s outputs, wouldn’t fry a tweeter. Color me skeptical.
This question is aimed to TRUE Elec Engineers, not fuse or wire directionality believers.
Has any of you ACTUALLY worked with and recommend a SSR which does not introduce any audible distortion on the speaker line and which can operate with a large range of trigger voltages (12 - 48 VDC, may need to have on board voltage regulator for this range). I am building a speaker DC protector and do not want to use electro mechanical relays becoz of DC arcing and contact erosion issues. It needs to be capable of switching up to 15 amps at about 100 volts.
Only TRUE engineers reply please.
Thanks
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