Bends Allowed?

[SquishY]

Ah I knew this had to be a good place. Never knew that, already learning new shits. So my current box is a little off since I effed up the port length when building it, but its 4.4 cubes with a 3.75"x16" slot port 25" in length so it should be tuned 35hz unless I know even less than I thought.

Any ideas from you smart peoples?

[bunkerking09]

go w/ 1 6"

[meade916]

im at work so i dont have time to calculate your box or port tuning but i will agree with the couple people that recommended a single 6" port. To me, that is PLENTY for a 15 for daily bumping and lower tuning. The more AREA your ports have, the higher the tuning and the longer the port needs to be. Reduce the port area to one 6, it wont have to be nearly as long and when that happens you will save room on the box displacement. Its all around a better idea.

After you mount that port, run a round-over bit around it with your router and that will help give it "Aeroport" tendencies. Not EXACTLY, but still better then not rounding over.

[meade916]

oh and to answer the original question. YES, you can bend it as many times as you want.....but if youve ever seen an "elbow" on a 6" tube, its HUGE - by the time you bend it and head the other direction you have just wasted half your box volume

[SquishY]

Then perhaps im just on a wrong path with this box. I want it loud but not a fart box or anything, I see lots of videos and it just disapoints me that mine isnt at all loud, never heard a single 15 in person but have heard one 18 and mine is nothing close to comparison.

:Edit:

Ive done a lot with PVC, before getting into being loud(by the way my two Fi 10s were much louder than this) I was making air guns to shoot what ever would fit down the pipe.

Wasnt worried about wasting to much volume cuz I got a lil extra space to play with.

Edited December 24, 2008 by SquishY

[Boon]

4 cubes with a single 6" aeroport is a pretty good starting point for a reasonably high powered 15.

[SquishY]

So its been decided after some thinking and talking to another person on aim. One 6'' would give a nice flat response and be loud but two 6'' would be much louder but peaky. Does this sound about right? Would there be a way to for see this with a frequency chart?

[SquishY]

Ok, so Ive been playing with the plot in Bassbox and am learning a good bit here I think. Like Meade said the cone does move the least(not that i had any doubt) at the tuning frequency but the vent velocity is highest at that point and where the box peaks is i assume where the cone moves most but at the same point vent velocity is substantially lower?

Does that sound about right?