Enclosure trouble...

[kickerlivinloud 10+ year member]

Ok to cut the cost of my system I am building my enclosure completely my self. I have it custom designed to my trunk so it is really hard to explain what it looks like. B/4 any type of dissplacement I have come up with about 6 cubs of space. I am hopeing that with the diss. of the wood, driver, and port it will be closer to 5 cubs. My main problem now is trying to figure out how much port area I need. Using the caculators over at loudspeakers101 I have gotten this info...

http://www.loudspeakers101.com/VentCal1.htm

Minimum Diameter = 15.05 inches

Minimum Area = 177.98 inches

Length of a side for a square vent = 13.34 inches

This is all for an 15" sub with 38mm Xmax tuned at 45Hz. What I want to do is either make a plug or and extention to lower the freq. to 28Hz for daily driving. Should I use a 13"X13" inch port or should I make it smaller. I am totaly new to the actual install part of car audio so bear with me. If so, how can I make a plug/extentsion to reach the 28Hz????

I am open to ideas...

Your input is appreceated...

Jon

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[kickerlivinloud 10+ year member]

what is wrong with loudspeakers.com??? Dose it not work right or what???

What would you all suggest for a port area and plug????

 

[kickerlivinloud 10+ year member]

Yeah it dose, so are there any other reliable calculators out there???

 

[kickerlivinloud 10+ year member]

Hey thanks a ton Jmac, just one last question, the 16x5x15 what is the tuning of that??? 45Hz??? Once agian, thanks man...

Jon

 

[kickerlivinloud 10+ year member]

Ok still another question... When building the port will I need to make a "turn" (don't know what to call it) so that the port is going alone the back side of the box??? Is that necessary or should I just make the port 15" long and just leave it??? Sorry for the noob questions but I am still getting used to the actualy enclosure design part of car audio... Thanks

Jon

 

[kickerlivinloud 10+ year member]

Ok I think I understand... So just use the dimentions you gave me earlyer. Hey can't thank you enough, been really bugging me trying to figure this out...

Thanks a ton!!!!!!!

Jon

 

[kickerlivinloud 10+ year member]

Shoot, Jmac, I just realized that I can't have the port be 16 inches high. My stock speakers which I want to keep are in the way of the box so I have had to make a lot of little fixes to make my box fit. Let me try and explain, The top of the box is 16" deep but the first 6" (from the front side 6" back) is going to be 18" high then after the 6" I am droping it down to 15" Hope you understand what I am saying.

Would the freq stay the same as long as the port area stays the same so like I could make it...8x10x15 or would that change the freq???

Sorry I forgot about this...

Thanks...

Jon

 

[kickerlivinloud 10+ year member]

Any one?????? Some one please help me!!!!

 

[JnEsPappa 10+ year member]

Doesn't something seem a little fishy, there ? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

NO. What you are noticing is a "correction factor" since you chose Yes for a slot port.

Read the JL Audio Tutorial page **HERE** for more information on that (read about Lv(eff) ). Bottom line, the loudspeakers 101 calculator IS correct.

 

[kickerlivinloud 10+ year member]

the loudspeakers 101 calculator IS correct

Ok, Jmac says they are wrong and he says they are right. Who is right???

 

[JonnyBlaze 10+ year member]

NO. What you are noticing is a "correction factor" since you chose Yes for a slot port.
Read the JL Audio Tutorial page **HERE** for more information on that (read about Lv(eff) ). Bottom line, the loudspeakers 101 calculator IS correct.

wrong. the loudspeaker101 calc dosent take the correction factor in account. not everyone uses the edge of the box for a slot port.

if you still think they are right, try just changing the height and widths around. leave the same numbers.

JB

 

[JnEsPappa 10+ year member]

if you still think they are right, try just changing the height and widths around. leave the same numbers.

JB

If you have a slot port and change the height you SHOULD get different port lengths because of the end correction factor.

Try using the 101 calc. and click NO for the "Slot Port" and change the dimensions. Notice the port length doesn't change. That is the way it should be.

Take it or leave it....just trying to support a well tested, easy to use, time saving applet. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Later,

-Mark