Combined power of bookshelf speaker

[Paul55]

Hi:

Hello everyone, I want to know, say I want to make a 80w speaker, and I want to make a 2 way book shelf speaker with one tweeter and a woofer, what will be the wattage for each, should they be of equal wattage or they can be of any wattage as long as their total wattage is 80w.

 

[boingoman]

The tweeter generally has less power handling than the woofer, as much less power is needed to generate high freqs. Tweeter power ratings seem to range from 10-25% of the woofer.