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<blockquote data-quote="noonej21" data-source="post: 2103172" data-attributes="member: 563225">I am in the process of designing my first ported enclosure for my Eclipse 8122. Based on the suggestions from many members of the board I think I am going to shoot for a design around 1.75 ft^3 @32 (if this sounds bad for this speaker please let me know, I will be giving it around 600 watts). I was going to use one of the Moe Lester designs but I am working with a smallish trunk so I did not want to have a very deep box and I also wanted to do it myself to learn the design proces.Now on to my question, what is the process for starting the design? Based on my design I know the net volume of the enclosure and the tuning frequency. Would the next step be to determine the port area so then I can back out the port length, and then lastly figure out the external dimensions for the box?I have already taken one cut at it where I designed up a box as if it were going to be sealed and then I tried to play with the various dimensions, as well as port areas and legths to get what I was shooting for.thanks for any insight you may be able to provide</blockquote>

[QUOTE="noonej21, post: 2103172, member: 563225"] I am in the process of designing my first ported enclosure for my Eclipse 8122. Based on the suggestions from many members of the board I think I am going to shoot for a design around 1.75 ft^3 @32 (if this sounds bad for this speaker please let me know, I will be giving it around 600 watts). I was going to use one of the Moe Lester designs but I am working with a smallish trunk so I did not want to have a very deep box and I also wanted to do it myself to learn the design proces. Now on to my question, what is the process for starting the design? Based on my design I know the net volume of the enclosure and the tuning frequency. Would the next step be to determine the port area so then I can back out the port length, and then lastly figure out the external dimensions for the box? I have already taken one cut at it where I designed up a box as if it were going to be sealed and then I tried to play with the various dimensions, as well as port areas and legths to get what I was shooting for. thanks for any insight you may be able to provide [/QUOTE]

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