0.6my aluminium ribbon

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haha! It's a bit of a different spin with different design & materials (hence my excitement). The things being posted here are definitely an inspiration in that its very cool to see other people getting things accomplished. It's serving as a great motivator for me! I look forward to posting the finished product soon. (Just waiting on some final materials)
 
Now with 4 , 11mm wide ribbons. They are parrallelt too 7 ohms. 28 ohms would have been too high.They are playing quite well, but not sure it is worth 7.5 meters of neodymium magnets.
 

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Had a chanc on Sunday to try Jensen Ribbon🙂 I'm not shure if the paper I used (5gsm Tengujo tissue) was not too thin, because the tonal balance was not right. But, that might be also due to the fact that I only had ~1mm corrugation on it, as on my normal alu ribbons on which it works just fine but on Alu leaf over paper the corrugation needs to be bigger, like on ABJensen last picture. I've found some RC truck gears which produce corrugation which hold better on paper/alu material. I'm also going to try some weave pattern corrugation that seems to be significantly more rigid than normal one, so maybe that's the answer for superthin ribbons. Will report back.
Btw, I've also tried helper magnets instead steel for return path circuit in the middle of the bar and its well worth try, definetely helps efficiency, I've got no way to measure, but it's noticeable.

Peter
 
Actually, I just used corrugated paper sheet from art supply shop. They come in a variety of flavours😀 and are cheap. You just have to line them up back to back and put your ribbon in between. Do the corrugation slowly otherwise it will wander from side to side and the resulting ribbon will be snaky

Peter
 
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hopefully the nano iron isn't too strong, or I would expect it to have attenuate effect
but might be more important if just have some 'calming' effect
somewhat like magnetic oil in a tweeter voicecoil gap

I remember once, it was tried to use magnetic tape from studio tape recorders, as backing foil
but was way too heavy

nano iron is a very interesting alternative
caution, nano stuff could be dangerous to handle
 
It do attenuate a bit. I due belive your rigth about the calming effekt.A side effekt is I can tilt the ribbon backwards and it is stil in the middle of the magnetic field.

Nano iron is probably some naste stof in your lungs.I pour in toluene before I pour it into contact adhesive.
 
It is 150cm tall. It got 5 rows of magnets N-S-N-S-N. I will make it with 4 ribbons.But I will have too parallel too get 7ohms.

AB, why N-S-N ....?

Btw, I've also tried helper magnets instead steel for return path circuit in the middle of the bar and its well worth try, definetely helps efficiency, I've got no way to measure, but it's noticeable.

Peter

Could you explain this more peter, "helper magnets".......... :scratch:
 
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