Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
If
you prefer an ultra-smooth bass response, you should loosely
fill
your Solo-Baric enclosure with
poly-fil stuffing. Ported designs will require covering the end
of
the port (located inside the box) with grill
cloth, chicken wire,
or
expanded metal
to
prevent the poly-fil from exiting the port. The use
of
poly-fil
will slightly decrease efficiency, but will deepen and extend the low frequency output.
For more advice on
box
building, refer
to
your Authorized Kicker Dealer,
or
click on the Support
tab
on
the Kicker homepage,
www.kicker.com. Choose the Technical Manuals link and then download
or
view
the corresponding information. Please E-mail
support@kicker.com
or
call Technical Services
(405)
624-8583
for specific
or
unanswered questions.
Figure 5
o
o
= 3 x 3
for
S15L5, S12L5
0=2
x 2
for
S10L5, S8L5
The displacement
of
the
port
must
be calculated and
added
to
the internal volume
of
the
final design.
The dimensions
for
X,
Y,
and Z may vary based on the thickness
of
the
material used
to
make the port.
I,
y
I...:-----------------x----------------+'"
'
Figure 6
A Note
on
PowerHandlingCapacity
Solo-Baric subwoofers will handle massive amounts
of
power
in
any
of
the recommended enclosures,
minimum
or
maximum. The smaller enclosures are best for use
in
limited-space applications.
The larger recommended enclosures will yield slightly more bass at the lowest frequencies.
The listed
Power
Handling capacities assume that both voice coils are
in
use.
Always connect both coils
in
a dual voice-coil speaker.
Note: The use of a subsonic filter will significantly increase the power handling.
The power handling specifications
in
these charts
are
calculated using a 25Hz, 24dB per octave subsonic
filter.
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