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Old 01-20-2004, 08:54 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Subwoofer Selection

Here's an unusual request for ya. I need a Subwoofer. For under $20.

Basically, I'm building an Air Cannon. My plan is to use the subwoofer to create the necessary force. Thsoe of you who know what a Vortex Ring Generator (What it's called?) is probably know what I'm talking about. All I want to do is to hook it to a 9-volt batter and everytime I hit a switch, have it displace large volumes of air.

So...It needs to be big. 12" is good, 15" is better. I don't care at all about quality, since it isn't going to be used for sound. I do want it to be airtight, because the cannon is supposed to be airtight except for the hole the air is forced through. The more air it can displace (bigger sdurace area of the speaker I guess), the better. Oh, and did I mention I'm on a budget?

I put this in the Community, since it's a strange request and I don't know if it's appropriate for the Multimedia and Audio forum...since what I have planned involves neither multimedia nor audio.

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Old 01-20-2004, 08:58 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Id used compressed air---or something else---only thing you will blow with a 12" driver and a 9v batt is your mind...
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without some serious necking down (going down to 1/2 an inch or so) i dont think you would really generate the kinda of force you are looking for

whats the air cannon for?
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Perhaps pictures will help explain what I'm trying to do:

http://www.amasci.com/amateur/vortgen.html
http://home.comcast.net/~grundmann/vger/
http://van.hep.uiuc.edu/van/demos/Vo...tor/vortex.htm

I have built a little version with a mini-CD, a ballon, and a soup can. It works REALLY well for something so small. It's not really an air cannon I guess, so that was a bit misleading.
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Might be easiest to scale up what you have that works already...
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A $20 subwoofer, hell, a $80 subwoofer wouldn't have even close to the xmax (excursion) you need to produce an acceptable sound wave, IMO.

For $20 you get the BOTTOM of the barrel...pretty much anything you get is gonna be utter shite. There is no use even recommendinga nything because it's all the same
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