Posted by Wayne Parham [ 32.97.110.142 ] on October 25, 2006 at 13:58:11:
In Reply to: Re: Ordered Stage 4 a few days ago, question on port... posted by Greggo on October 25, 2006 at 11:01:39:
You'll want to tune the box to 38Hz. To do that with a 4" port, I'd make it 6" long. The Helmholtz formula used to calculate this is for a straight (non-flared) port, but the alignment has a lot of "wiggle room" so I wouldn't worry about the flare. In fact, you could safely use a 4" port anywhere from 5" to 7" and the response would be almost the same.
Here's the Helmholtz formula:
Here's a little BASIC program that will calculate the formulas for you:
10 INPUT"Enclosure Volume";VE
20 INPUT"Diameter of Port";PD
30 INPUT"Length of Port";PL
40 VB=VE*1728:PI=3.1415926535:AP=PI*((PD/2)^2):LC=PL+((8*PD)/(3*PI))
50 FR=(13548/(2*PI))*(AP/(VB*LC))^.5
60 PRINT"Fr =";FR;"Hz."
70 GOTO 10
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