Variable x-o for motorola KSN1142 [message #33207] |
Tue, 17 April 2001 22:31 |
Andy G
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This is a proposed varial x-o for a PA box I am currently building. The other drivers are an Eminence gamma 12 and an Eminence Beta 12LT in a 2.5 arrangement. X-o is aimed at 3500Hz 6dB. Gamma 12 will augment bass below about 300
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Modified Variable x-o for motorola KSN1142 [message #33211 is a reply to message #33210] |
Wed, 18 April 2001 01:13 |
Andy G
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After feedback from John Risch on the Mad Board, I have made the following changes. He actually suggested using switched capacitor values, but I guess what I was trying to do was to make a variable piezo x-o with the components I have in stock. I have 4 of those 8 ohm L-pads in stock, an was trying to find a way of using them, rather than buying extra rotary or other switches. If I remove the 1.5µF cap (doesn't seem necessary) Put 22 ohms across the piezo and add a 15 ohm in series with the parallel leg of the 8 ohm L-pad and push the x-o frequency up to 4500 calculated on 16 ohms (2.2µF), The R1 resistor would be set for the half way position on the L-pad, giving partial cut and gain. (I know that it would not give the same dB cut as on the face-plate of the L-pad, but I wasn't planning to use it anyway.) Do you reckon it would work ok?
My calcs seem to indicate that the resistance seen by the x-o capacitor would vary between 15.2 and 16.9 ohms. This is probably quite a bit more stable than a normal driver.
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ps: [message #33212 is a reply to message #33210] |
Wed, 18 April 2001 01:20 |
Andy G
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You are probably right about the 30 ohm resistor, but thats what I have been using in other non variable piezo x-os, and its just about right. Also, as asked further down, have you ever used the Eminence Gamma 12 in a PA box, I had great trouble getting a sensible box size, ended going fully sealed and fully stuff about 95 litres, hope it works. If it doesn't, I'll swap it out with a beta 12 and port that section of the box.
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KSN 1038 as a "Super Tweeter" [message #33439 is a reply to message #33438] |
Thu, 21 June 2001 02:35 |
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Wayne_Parham
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You might be interested in the post called "Pi implementations of quartz piezoelectric tweeters", and in the links to other threads that are contained in this post. As for a specific sugegstion, you might try this: === 10kHz Filter === Series Capacitance = 1.0uF Parallel Resistance = 16 ohms freq resp ============= 20kHz -1 dB 10kHz -3 dB 5kHz -7 dB 2.5kHz -13dB
That will give you some subtle "sparkle" and is probably what you're looking for. Alternately, I'll describe the exact filter you've asked about, which is a first order 20kHz network. If this is what you want, you'll need a capacitor that's exactly half as big as the one listed above. So you'll want a 16 ohm resistor across the tweeter, and a 0.47uF capacitor in series with the tweeter/resistor connection. This will give the following response curve: === 20kHz Filter === Series Capacitance = 0.47uF Parallel Resistance = 16 ohms freq resp ============= 20kHz -3 dB 10kHz -7 dB 5kHz -13dB 2.5kHz -19dB
A KSN 1038 using this second filter might add some "air," but it will be crossing over pretty high.
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