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Their is a lot to be learned in effeciency designing from car audio. [message #33391] Sun, 27 May 2001 19:09 Go to next message
strebo is currently offline  strebo
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Ok. A fellow has a Car stereo system that can presurrize a cab of a Truck to 158dB at frequencys between 22 and 40 hZ.

He has 4 15" woofers in 4 sealed enclosures running a true 500 watts per enclosure.

Let us run the numbers:

The woofers are 93dB 1 W/1 M.

Using 4 of them, this would equate to over 100, but not much.

Givin the fact that He did hit 158dB, then it would take close to 500,000 watts to get to 158 dB.

The loudspeaker environment and loading does change the structure of the math.


Food for thought.

ref:

101 dB 1 W
111 dB 10 w
121 dB 100w
131 dB 1,000w
141 dB 10,000w
151 db 100,000w
161 db 1,000,000w

Re: Their is a lot to be learned in effeciency designing from car audio. [message #33394 is a reply to message #33391] Sun, 27 May 2001 20:42 Go to previous message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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Don't forget about thermal compression. The more power you put in, the more loss due to heat. Best to start with something that is very efficient to begin with, so there is less loss to heat. The best speaker for efficiency is a horn.
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