Screen over port?

[bgt2u]

Could I put a thin screen, or mesh material over the port opening, to prevent debris from entering my enclosure? Or would this effect the tuning, or something else, that I am unaware of?

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[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

it'll change your port velocity you'll need a material that has less than 50% coverage or place it farther away from the actual port.

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

Could I put a thin screen, or mesh material over the port opening, to prevent debris from entering my enclosure? Or would this effect the tuning, or something else, that I am unaware of?

May cause port noise. There's a lot of air that moves when the sub is playing. If there's debris that can be flying into your box, you need to clean your car lol

 

[big scott]

ya really, clean that thing out...

if clean there would not be anything going into the port.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

It can't help. I'd say chicken wire should offer little resistance and is thin enough that it would keep like empty beer cans from falling in for you... I assume that's what you're worried about?

 

[adulbrich 5,000+ posts]

I'd say chicken wire. Was thinking about doing this with a ported box a while back after filling it with polyfill. That shit got errrrrywhere in my car.

One of my friends had a few solo cups sucked into his 9515 box. Couldn't get them out by hand, they were so far in there. A few months later, they came out on their own.

 

[bgt2u]

Lol....no beer cans, small children maybe. No, seriously, I was actually thinking about doing that more for cosmetic reasons.

 

[wew lad 5,000+ posts]

id try to find a grille that is just horizontal lines of metal as thin as possible and as few as possible, hard to explain lol. using mesh doesnt seem like a good idea.

 

[bgt2u]

Sort of like an outside dryer aluminum louver vent...maybe?