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- From: moskowit@panix.com (Len Moskowitz)
- Subject: Re: Liquid Cooled Speakers?
- Message-ID: <C19FDF.8CI@panix.com>
- Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
- References: <136020002@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> <C17M0z.7t5@world.std.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:39:15 GMT
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- Richard D Pierce writes:
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- >There are some problems, though. The viscosity of the oil changes with
- >temperature, so that the damping effects are reduced at high temperatures.
- >The oil can tend to "wick" out of the gap if there are any very narrow
- >gaps or absorbent materials near by (like the paper cone of a tweeter).
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- Also, over time, small amounts of the ferrofluid can be forcibly ejected
- from the gap eventually resulting in performance changes.
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- Len Moskowitz
- moskowit@panix.com
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