Silly question about loudspeakers and crossover

[michaelpage26]

Greetings,

I have this silly question:
If you have a complete loudspeaker that includes passive crossovers and drivers. And suddenly you remove either the tweeter or one of the woofers, the crossover behaviour will change? If it doesn't change the other components (tweeter and woofers) left on cabinet will continue working as before? Apart from the extra big holes in the cabinet...

Thanks,
Mike

[richie00boy]

Removing one driver should not affect the other, as long as parallel crossovers are used. Which they are in 99.9% of cases.

[michaelpage26]

So I will have to check the crossover to be 100% sure eh?
If they are parallel as it seems to be , removing a driver and letting the other two (2.5 way 3 driver design), won't allow more wattage for the other two than usual?
Thanks for the help

[lndm]

Better to plug those holes I'd reckon.

[michaelpage26]

Of course! I don't care about the sound right now... I want to play around being reassured that the drives are perfectly safe

[richie00boy]

Being in parallel basically isolates the HF and LF sections, so play at will

[Svante]

Also... If the tweeter has a 2nd order filter, you will be left with a cap and a coil in series, without the tweeter. That can give a pretty deep impedance dip, where the impedance at the dip is the DC resistance of the coil (typically 0.5 ohms ?). That could be bad for the amplifier, either by blowing it (but I don't think so) or by making it generate distortion.