Coleslaw Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 (edited) Redesigned box farther down, please check out both and tell me what you think I'm pretty new at designing subwoofer boxes. I have built one and designed a couple. I came up with this design using Torres Box Tuning Calculator and wanted to get a more experienced opinion on it. I have calculated it to be about 3.97 cubes gross the box calculator says port displacement is .79 cubes (which I feel is a little high) and I guesstimated woofer displacement around .15 cubes cuz I couldn't find the actual number. This leaves me at 3.03 cubes net (3 cubes is the recommended for this driver). As for the port, it is 6.25 in x 6.25 in and I calculated it at 22.75 in long (after end correction). According to Torres this gives 39.06 sq in of port (it gives a range of 36-48 sq in) and 12.89 sq in of port area per foot and a tuning of 33.45 hz. I'm putting a pic below (measurements in pic are internal wood will be either 1" or 3/4") but does this look/sound like it would be a good box for daily SQL? Edited October 26, 2010 by Coleslaw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Carroot1 Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 torres calulator already includes end correction.. no need to do it "Manually" lol, he told me himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pstone11 Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 Did you try a regular slot port as opposed to the square port with only 1 shared side? It will give a bit more room to mount the sub and free up a hair more airspace. Much simpler build too. Quote Check out StoneSounds to see my recent builds.Or look at the Flying White Facebook Page! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanitarium Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 Did you try a regular slot port as opposed to the square port with only 1 shared side? It will give a bit more room to mount the sub and free up a hair more airspace. Much simpler build too. this. theres no real reason to make a square port like that unless theres just a certain look you're going for on the face of the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coleslaw Posted October 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2010 torres calulator already includes end correction.. no need to do it "Manually" lol, he told me himself. I just don't know exactly how torres calc lays out the port and such so I just used it as a general base and did it myself from there. Torres shows 15.75" physical port length but I wasn't sure exactly how that was done. Did you try a regular slot port as opposed to the square port with only 1 shared side? It will give a bit more room to mount the sub and free up a hair more airspace. Much simpler build too. Yea, I wanted to do a 3 common wall setup but I was having to make the port really long so I wasn't sure if I wanted to do it that way. I might try re-designing it that way. This isn't anything that is going to be done like this week, I'm just planning it out. It will prolly be built during christmas break when I am home from college since I don't have time to do it atm so I have plenty of time to play with ideas. this. theres no real reason to make a square port like that unless theres just a certain look you're going for on the face of the box. I know, like I said in the previous comment I might redesign with a 3 common wall setup. I just didn't at first because I was having to make the port so long to get the tuning I want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coleslaw Posted October 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2010 K, New design, tell me what you think/which is better. I based the port length off "physical port length" in torres. Not sure if that is right but I don't really understand Torres (if anyone wants to explain that would be awesome XD). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uhoh_45 Posted October 24, 2010 Report Share Posted October 24, 2010 much better Quote R.I.P! (Nov-29-2009) 92 explorer - 4 Atomic Apxx 15s duel .7s - 4rth order bandpass wall -4 powerbass XA-3000D's - 16 8volt batts wired to 16 volts - (9+/9-) runs 0gauge - 152.3 Db @ 29hz BUILD LOG current build 97 chevy lumina4 - 1 Atomic Apx 18 - 6 cube slot port trunk sealed off - 1 powerbass XA-3000D - 2 optima G31s in spare tire18 1 run 1/0 lumina build log Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Coleslaw Posted October 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 anyone have any input? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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