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- From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
- Subject: Re: power amps blowing tweeters
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.153319.12834@sei.cmu.edu>
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- References: <15954@suns9.crosfield.co.uk> <1993Jan19.143935.20811@sei.cmu.edu> <C14v52.6A9@world.std.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:33:19 EST
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- In article <C14v52.6A9@world.std.com>, Richard D Pierce writes:
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- > In article <1993Jan19.143935.20811@sei.cmu.edu> Richard S D'Ippolito writes:
- >>
- >>To save you the trouble of calculating the contributions of all of the
- >>harmonics, just square the RMS of the squarewave corresponding to the sinewave
- >>peak, and you will see that twice the power will be dissipated. This is the
- >>answer you would have arrived at by including all of the expansion terms, 40W
- >>in your case, assuming that the impedance was constant with frequency. Given
- >>the inductive nature of the voice coil, the actual power would be much less.
- ^^^^
-
- >
- > No, it would be a little less, not a lot less. Even at 20 kHz, the
- ^^^^^^
- > inductive component of the inpedance of most reasonable tweeters might
- > account for as much as maybe 20% of the total impedance (phase angle of
- > the impedance at that point about 10 or 12 degrees.
-
- OK, "much" or "little"?
-
- With your data, here is what I calculate:
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- freq wL tan(th) theta Z cos(th) Power SigmaP(n)
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- 20kHz 0.2R 0.2 11deg 1.02R 0.98 ~P(nom) 1.0P
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- 60 0.6R 0.6 31 1.17R 0.85 0.24P 1.24P
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- 100 1.0R 1.0 45 1.4R 0.71 0.10P 1.34P
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- 140 1.4R 1.4 54 1.7R 0.58 0.05P 1.39P
-
- Now, using Mr. Frith's base of 20 watts, your impedance ratio data, and
- assuming an amplifier power response to 140KHz, we see diminishing
- contributions by the fourth term and a "square" wave power of only 27.8 watts
- (40% more) compared to the theoretical maximum of 40 (100% more) and his rough
- calculation of 37.
-
- So, "much" or "little"?
-
- Rich
-