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chong
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Posted: 12 March 2017 at 12:37am |
hi, so I'm planning to build Othorn cabs but I am having trouble understanding the plans, can anyone help me make sense of them?, i feel dumb AF for asking...
are the plans like this or as written in the original pic? I think I will make some out of cardboard first as a prototype |
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patryk1305
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I don't understand what you mean. The plan is pretty clear to me! Your second picture is wrong as there seems to be no expansion.
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kevinmcdonough
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hey
I've marked the plan a little better, hopefully that helps? The Green parts are the actual panels of wood in the horn, though as Patryk says you can't just straighten them out and make them horizontal as you have in your plan, you need to keep them at the same angles they are at in the original plan so there is expansion in the horn path all the way round the cab. All the other information that's on the plan serves two purposes. Firstly it less you see the size of everything and work out how to cut all the wood, but it also is how the designer has made it. The thin black line that runs between the green pieces, that has the curves at each end as it travels all the way around the horn path, is showing you the path of the air/sound round the speaker, and all the dimensions and information around this is what he has used to simulate it in his designing program and worked out what shape and size to make it all. You can ignore the majority of it, and just use whatever figures and angles and sizes you need to work out all the bits of wood and how to put it all together. edit: actually, looking at the original design, ignore the two curved lines on the left top and bottom there is no wood here. I though from the drawing that he had put curved pieces of wood here to smooth the horn path around the corners, a common technique, but looking at some photos of the design it appears not Hope that helps, K
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gen0me
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But look at the length patch. He used circular approximation.
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infrasound
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As an engineer, I wouldn't want to publish that plan in a public domain.
If I were you, I would rebuild the drawing - it's an overdimensioned mess with no clear intent or useful data! Sorry, but it's true. Also.. Inches?
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chong
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here is all the info for that plan, its a mess to me, and I don't understand the bullet point measurements too.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwoofers/193418-othorn-tapped-horn.html ---------------------------------------------------------- but what going n with this Othorn cab, its different.. http://www.avsforum.com/content/type/61/id/179365/width/350/height/700/flags/LL http://www.avsforum.com/content/type/61/id/167828/width/400/height/342 |
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gen0me
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And I like it! Its a lot of mess but you can see designer did is very detailed. And its easy to reverse engineer if you have any doubts. |
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kevinmcdonough
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yeah, the problem is I don't think that first drawing is actually supposed to be a construction drawing, I think that its just supposed to be the horn path dimensions for simulating in Akabak.
While with some time you could go through it all and figure out all the sizes, I'm sure if you go through that thread there must be a better drawing somewhere, or a list of all the panels needing cut or something. K
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Speaker Sol
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Not sure if it's even possible to get panel sze from that drawing.
You may need to pm the designer for the build plan. I'm about half way through the otorn thread and have not yet come across a build plan. |
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infrasound
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After seeing the project page I understand that this was not meant as a "plan" to be distributed, instead as a screengrab of his dimensioning.
Hopefully he will release a more sensible public plan! Will make it easier for end users
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kevinmcdonough
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Well it looks as if it's to scale, so at the very least you could just scale it up and get all the angles and the dimensions to within a few mm, close enough that it wouldn't change the response noticeably. But yeah not ideal. K |
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MarjanM
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Some 6 years ago i decided to play a bit with the tapped horn idea.
So i made this box along with 3 other prototypes. I was barely impressed with both the spl and the low end extensions. My double 18 reflex box killed it in every possible aspect. So i really dont get what all this fuzz around the tapped horns is all about. |
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