Help with 18 inch Sub Enclouser vented (2)design

Hello Friends,
I have 2 18 inches sub driver and wants to design for them. I have the parameters and tried my best to design on a software but was unsuccessful.
If anybody can please give me a design dimensions I’ll be grateful.
Driver 18 inch 1500 W 4.5 inch in out coil. Pure paper cone.
NOMINAL DIAMETER: 18 inch / 457 mm
RATED IMPEDANCE: 8 ohms
PROGRAM POWER: 3600 W
POWER HANDLING CAPACITY: 1800 W
SENSITIVITY: 97.0 dB
FREQUENCY RANGE: 30 – 1000 Hz
EFFECTIVE PISTON DIAMETER: 395 mm / 15.55 inch
MAX. EXCURSION BEFORE DAMAGE: 54 mm / 2.13 inch
MINIMIM IMPEDANCE: 6.8 ohm
VOICE COIL DIAMETER: 4.5 inch / 114 mm
VOICE COIL WINDING MATERIAL: Copper
VOICE COIL LENGTH: 34 mm / 1.34 inch
NUMBER OF LAYERS: 2







Thiele - small parameters
RESONANCE FREQUENCY (FS)30 Hz
DC RESISTANCE (RE)5.40 ohm
MECHANICAL FACTOR6.70 Qms
ELECTRICAL FACTOR (QES)0.29 Qes
TOTAL FACTOR0.28 Qts
BL FACTOR (BL)30.50 T x m
EFFECTIVE MOVING MASS (MMS)260.0 g
EQUIVALENT CAS AIR LOADED (VAS)220.0 liters
EFFECTIVE PISTON AREA (SD)0.120 m2
MAX. LINEAR EXCURSION (XMAX)14.0 mm
VOICE COIL INDUCTANCE @ 1KHZ (LE1K)1.38 mH
HALF-SPACE EFFICIENCY (EFF)1.90%
Mounting Information
OVERALL DIAMETER465 mm / 18.31 inches
BOLT CIRCLE DIAMETER442-447 mm / 17.4-17.6 inch
BOLT HOLE DIAMETER7 mm / 0.28 inch
FRONT MOUNT BAFFLE CUT-OUT424 mm / 16.69 inch
REAR MOUNT BAFFLE CUT-OUT 424 mm / 16.69 inch
VOLUME OCCUPIED BY THE DRIVER6.5 liters / 0.26 ft3
CE MARKINGYes
SIZE
WEIGHT15.2 kg / 33.51 lbs
HEIGHT212 mm / 8.35 inches
DIAMETER465 mm / 18.31 inches
 
RCF LF18X451 by the looks of it.

It will help others to help you if you tell us a bit more info.

What kind of encvironment will it be used in - eg home, live gigs, outdoors vs indoors etc.

What kind of program material will you mainly use it for - eg mainstream music vs EDM vs Movies etc

Do you have any other limitations such as max size or limited amp power available?

HTH,
David.
 
Indeed, it's designed for either a huge high power sub, mid-bass horn or mid-bass sealed or vented alignment. Otherwise put it in an acoustically tiny (20* Vas*Qts^3.3 = ~66 L net) sealed box and use DSP to frequency shape it to suit.
 
its a classic assisted 6th order woofer - so a 151.6l vented box tuned ~fs
 

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