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- From: DPierce@world.std.com (Richard D Pierce)
- Subject: Ferrofluid Facts and Fiction, was Re: Liquid Cooled Speakers?
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <136020002@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> <5070326@hplsla.hp.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:03:35 GMT
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- In article <5070326@hplsla.hp.com> kens@hplsla.hp.com (Ken Snyder) writes:
- >
- > Many speakers nowadays have what is know as ferrofluid injected
- >into the area between the voicecoils and magnet assemblies. This
- >normally is an air gap. The ferrofluid is a light oil with small
- >magnetic particles in it. It has the advantages of improving the
- >magnetic coupling between the magnet structure and voicecoil and
- >the thermal coupling as well.
-
- This is simply not true, nor does the manufacturer make any such claims.
- The saturization magnetization of ferrofluid is typically on the order of
- 100 Guass. You'll find, on the other hand, that the
- typical tweeter magnetic gap has a field up around 10 kiloGauss, around
- 100 times higher. Also, the effective desnity of the magnetic particles is
- quite low, and does little to reduce the reluctance in the gap. Thus there
- is effectively no change whatsoever in the magnetic coupling. The only
- function of the magnetic properties of the fluid is to keep it in the
- gap where it belongs.
-
- The benefits of ferrofluids in loudspeakers are mechanical and thermal
- only. Period
-
- >It is typically only used in tweeters whose voice coil movement is very
- >small.
-
- Generally true, although there are design techniques that allow
- ferrofluids to be used in midranges and woofers.
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