important: seal gasket
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Topic: important: seal gasket
Posted By: Contour
Subject: important: seal gasket
Date Posted: 26 May 2006 at 8:33am
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Hello, The gasket on the Ciare 12.00SW is made out of 4 pieces. As you can see on the next pictures there may be small gaps between these pieces: http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1114/ciarekier2iu.jpg - http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1114/ciarekier2iu.jpg It is important to seal these gaps. They can produce unwanted noises and reduce output (a very small amount but still). Best regards, Walt |
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Posted By: Lyndon A
Date Posted: 26 May 2006 at 9:44am
| Yep, we noticed on some of ours the gap can be upto 2mm. It doesn't squash that much either when you bolt it down. Hot Glue gun works well. |
Posted By: Laurence G
Date Posted: 17 July 2006 at 12:15pm
| I've no idea if they have changed the gasket material, but although my gasket was in four pieces the gaps where very small, and the gasket compressed down to around 2/3mm. |
Posted By: Jay Lawless
Date Posted: 05 September 2006 at 3:59pm
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i would imagen when the gasket is compressed when mounted then the gaps wouldn't be a problem anymore... ------------- Previously known as NeverWinter Background: Automotive, Live and Home Custom Design. mid/high level based design and feild experience. Bass specialist |
Posted By: IAIN RENDLE
Date Posted: 29 October 2006 at 10:43am
the latest batch of ciare drivers have no gaps in the gasget.  ------------- -=vortex sound systems=- www.vortexsound.co.uk |
Posted By: SAFETY SAM
Date Posted: 24 January 2007 at 8:44am
| Newest batch................ Where can i get some.............i really really need 4 asap |
Posted By: Charles_V
Date Posted: 24 January 2007 at 12:10pm
| are you in the uk? |
Posted By: Unknown Enemy
Date Posted: 07 October 2007 at 9:10pm
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i have a question about these speakers. what is the rms of these speakers. on there website is just says 1000 watts. is that peak or rms
cheers
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Posted By: toastyghost
Date Posted: 07 October 2007 at 11:26pm
1000w RMS. |
Unknown Enemy wrote:Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 11 February 2008 at 3:31pm
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1000w rms!!!! really??? It looks like one of them cheap car audio drivers, no offence
Would these drivers be good for any other design boxes?
Kick bins perhaps?
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Posted By: toastyghost
Date Posted: 11 February 2008 at 4:52pm
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It's a very tight, stiff and thick cone with a lot of xmax. So from the little I know, very suited to horns, perhaps a tapped one? |
Posted By: roborg
Date Posted: 08 March 2008 at 12:07pm
The current batch have slight gaps in the foam gasket, but once the driver is tightened down to the baffle the outer rim seals adequately. Maybe very slight gaps are desirable to allow the speaker box pressure to equalise? (but obviously not several mm ones) Unless you're going to play in an aircraft & drop 10,000 feet a minute
Its a 1K AES, so (assuming Ciare arent being too liberal) 1K RMS too. The venting is pretty impressive on these & it has a sturdy looking 4" VC. As for kick bin, i reckon they could be used, but the heavy cone results in a mass roll-off of ~220Hz so not so high. The power handling is good, but the xmax would never be used in a horn-loaded kick bin, so not the ideal driver. Small bass-reflex kick bin might work quite well
 cheers,
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Posted By: Mark James
Date Posted: 08 March 2008 at 12:37pm
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@tweeter box please dont take this the wrong way [hard to express a tone of voice in written form] but I take it you havnt ever seen one? they are built like a tank, if they did a 15" version with a lower fs [<30hz] then that would be what i would design a very long folded horn sub on.....in fact if they just did an almost identicle driver with a lower fs thats what i would use..... do they do anything like that????? edited becaus afaik there is no username tweeter bo.... lol ------------- insert silly sentence here |
Posted By: hektik
Date Posted: 09 July 2008 at 6:37pm
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SEALING GASKETS
IF U USE SILICONE BASED INSTANT GASKET SEALER (U NO THE ORANGE STUFF FOR CARS) IT WORKS A TREAT
U CAN GET IT FROM HALFORDS ,MOTOR WORLD ETC
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Posted By: sKs01
Date Posted: 09 July 2008 at 11:27pm
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@ hektik: wouldn't that make getting blown drivers out a fair bit of a challenge?
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Posted By: hektik
Date Posted: 10 July 2008 at 2:38pm
| no it wont stik them to the cab at all ....its not glue it drys like rubber |
Posted By: sKs01
Date Posted: 10 July 2008 at 2:41pm
nice, might be worth looking into that.  ------------- You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself. |
Posted By: hektik
Date Posted: 10 July 2008 at 3:34pm
| fiil the gaps then run a small amount all the way around the gasket ,,,AND LET IT DRY then fit ur driver |