Wardale Seperator Unites

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Warfedale Seperator Unites

Found these today at an estate sale, Came in a box of a bunch of photo equipment I purchased. Each one looks slightly different then the other but the values are the same. I know what they are for but not how they may have been used. Anybody know? :scratch2:

Thanks,

George
 

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I'm pretty much stumped on this one. The only thing that comes to mind is a crossover permitting the user to run a set of high frequency speaker and a set of low frequency ones. This could allow someone to convert a 2 chanel set up to a 4 chanel one.
I run something vaguely similar with a pair of Gale 401C's and Mordaunt-Short mezzo 2's through a speaker selector box. The Gales fill in the lower mid to bass region.
I could be completely out to lunch with this guess, so please take it with a grain of salt.
Bi-wiring also comes to mind but doesn't make much sense to me based on my vintage Wharfies, since these as well as all the other ones I have come accross have only one set of binding posts.
Hopefully one of our in-house gurus can come up with a definitive answer. I would love to know the answer as well.
 
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I did a quick Google image search for "vintage Wharfedale external crossover" and the first result was a very similar three way external crossover. It appears that the company name is spelled differently on yours. Other than that they appear the same. Hope that helps.
 
Definitely looks like a vintage Wharfedale 2-way cross-over unit. They are used to build a 2-way speaker; the frequencies above 3 kHz are sent to the tweeter, the lower frequencies to the woofer.

I am completely stumped by the spelling of Warfedale! Vintage White-Van knock off? Look like the original Wharfedales.

Do you have a picture of what is inside? (Haven't found a picture yet to compare to, but it might help solve the mystery.)
 
toups said:
Definitely looks like a vintage Wharfedale 2-way cross-over unit. They are used to build a 2-way speaker; the frequencies above 3 kHz are sent to the tweeter, the lower frequencies to the woofer.

I am completely stumped by the spelling of Warfedale! Vintage White-Van knock off? Look like the original Wharfedales.

Do you have a picture of what is inside? (Haven't found a picture yet to compare to, but it might help solve the mystery.)
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I took the front off of one to look inside and what ever components it has are completely encased in what looks like epoxy. I have seen this before when the manufacture doesn't want anything tampered with or copied.
 
kaplang said:
I took the front off of one to look inside and what ever components it has are completely encased in what looks like epoxy. I have seen this before when the manufacture doesn't want anything tampered with or copied.
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Potting or encapsulation is used to prevent tampering and also to protect the circuit from vibration and moisture.
 
Apart from the mis-spelling of Wharfedale, I find it curious that the speaker input and output terminals are screw down posts rather than a soldered terminal as I would expect on a crossover that was a permanent part of the speaker design. Would these be mounted on the back of the enclosure or inside?
Do tou have pics of the output side?
 
Apart from the spelling of Warfedale, i find it curious that the speaker input and output terminals are screw down posts rather than a soldered terminal as I would expect on a crossover that was a permanent part of the speaker design. Would these be mounted on the back of the enclosure or inside?
Do tou have pics of the output side?

Found this one on another site. No afilliation etc.

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Except for the miss-spelling and some additional text, they do look very similar to these http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/wharfedale-way-crossover-england-143378550

The outputs are the top four binding posts, two marked treble and two marked bass. The inputs are the lower two binding posts marked input.

The fact that they are potted or encapsulated doesn't strike me as a cheap knock off, although that is one way to hide cheap (or no) components in the cross-over. The miss-spelling (or alternate spelling has me stumped.) Google hasn't turned up anything for me that would shed light on this mystery.
 
scuba said:
Apart from the spelling of Warfedale, i find it curious that the speaker input and output terminals are screw down posts rather than a soldered terminal as I would expect on a crossover that was a permanent part of the speaker design. Would these be mounted on the back of the enclosure or inside?
Do tou have pics of the output side?

Found this one on another site. No afilliation etc.
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That is a 3-way unit with one of the binding posts broken and a pot broken.

Agree about the binding posts, but evidently that is they way they were made, not sure why.
 
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