Well, my first "from scratch" build went off without a hitch, and just 5 hours after the parts came in the mail, I got it all clamped up and drying in the kitchen. (Fun fact: the guys over at fixmyspeaker.com have never built a quad leadwire 2.5" spider before, or at least up until a few days ago. They thought I must have made a mistake ordering the damn thing.)
Overkill? Probably. But my build's full of overkill, so what's a little extra?
Anyway, after it's all said and done, there's still one question that remains unanswered: How much power will the damn thing take? I was planning on hooking it up to my amp and increasing the gain until I got scared, but there must be a more scientific way of finding that out.
Lets get down to the nuts and bolts of it:
Im using an Arc Audio Flatline motor, which has double stacked 6.7" dia ferrite magnets and a .51 inch top plate. Conveniently, the bottom plate is also milled out a fair bit, which means the bottom spider will contact the top plate about 3/16" before the voice coil ever contacts the bottom plate, so bottoming out and ruining the voice coil is impossible with this design.
Here's the link to the voice coil I'm using.
As mentioned before, I got quad leads on this thing, so that's not gonna be an issue. Soft parts (to the best of my knowledge) don't matter much, but they're all from fixmyspeaker, so they're top notch, if that means anything.
Anyone got an idea on this one? If you need more info about anything, just say the word. Thanks.
Overkill? Probably. But my build's full of overkill, so what's a little extra?
Anyway, after it's all said and done, there's still one question that remains unanswered: How much power will the damn thing take? I was planning on hooking it up to my amp and increasing the gain until I got scared, but there must be a more scientific way of finding that out.
Lets get down to the nuts and bolts of it:
Im using an Arc Audio Flatline motor, which has double stacked 6.7" dia ferrite magnets and a .51 inch top plate. Conveniently, the bottom plate is also milled out a fair bit, which means the bottom spider will contact the top plate about 3/16" before the voice coil ever contacts the bottom plate, so bottoming out and ruining the voice coil is impossible with this design.
Here's the link to the voice coil I'm using.
As mentioned before, I got quad leads on this thing, so that's not gonna be an issue. Soft parts (to the best of my knowledge) don't matter much, but they're all from fixmyspeaker, so they're top notch, if that means anything.
Anyone got an idea on this one? If you need more info about anything, just say the word. Thanks.