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Re: Siren Capacitor Value [message #14761 is a reply to message #14760]

Mon, 29 November 2010 16:25

pleat
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Unlesss you purchased the cabinets brand new, that only tells you whats in the cabs. It doesn't tell you that the caps are original to the cabinet at the time of manufacture. Your the first one that has ever mentioned the 10 MFD caps as far as I've ever heard of.
Kustom used two types of caps, the first series were a large goldish colorcap mounted to the baffle board, and the wires were fiber taped to the horn bell. The second series is a white cap that was soldered directly to the horn driver. Those are the only two I've ever encountered, and both are 4 MFD in value. Very interesting. C4ster calculated the 10 mfd to cross around 800hz, I think the 4 mfd were around 2K crossover. Maybe C4ster can calculate where the 4 mfd would cross at. Of course the lower the crossover point, the more the horn has to carry and could damage the driver quicker with the lower crossover point.
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		Siren Capacitor Value By: toadsoup-1 on Sat, 27 November 2010 12:23
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: kustomoholic on Sat, 27 November 2010 14:14
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: toadsoup-1 on Sat, 27 November 2010 14:42
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: kustomoholic on Sat, 27 November 2010 20:50
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: toadsoup-1 on Sat, 27 November 2010 20:53
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: cassent5150 on Sun, 05 December 2010 11:56
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: toadsoup-1 on Sun, 05 December 2010 13:18
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: cassent5150 on Mon, 06 December 2010 08:54
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: pleat on Sun, 26 December 2010 21:19
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: kustomoholic on Sat, 27 November 2010 20:58
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: pleat on Sun, 28 November 2010 16:29
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: kustomoholic on Sun, 28 November 2010 16:42
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: C4ster on Mon, 29 November 2010 13:07
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: toadsoup-1 on Mon, 29 November 2010 13:37
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: toadsoup-1 on Mon, 29 November 2010 15:55
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: pleat on Mon, 29 November 2010 16:25
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: toadsoup-1 on Mon, 29 November 2010 16:44
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: pleat on Mon, 29 November 2010 17:12
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: toadsoup-1 on Mon, 29 November 2010 17:29
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: pleat on Mon, 29 November 2010 19:06
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: toadsoup-1 on Mon, 29 November 2010 19:36
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: Bill on Mon, 29 November 2010 16:41
		Re: Siren Capacitor Value By: kustomoholic on Mon, 29 November 2010 21:30

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