Unfortunately, I'm a little busy right now. However, I really can't wait to explore BEMPP in more detail, at first glance BEMPP looks very promising. Maybe it makes sense to create a separate topic for discussing open source software for acoustic modeling?
Really? Assembly in Solidworks should be/is straight forward. You only need one petal - can use 'Linear pattern'.
He guys, I am really curious about something; I have printed the exar-400-25 waveguide but made a mistaken, my BMS 4550 cd's have an output angle of 14 and the waveguide 6... I thought my drivers were 7 degrees so I thought it wouldn't be a problem if it's off 1 degree, but how about being off 8 degrees? Will this have a lot of negative impact on the performance?
nijts
nijts
The flat faces of the petals don’t come out as 1 face in the stl. But now with the step file i managed to make a tooling split. The core part is now in the 3d printer.
I think the best approach is to take the diameter of the phase plug exit and start the whole WG geometry with a straight tube from there (can be made any length required). A piece of a spline (e.g. a cubic Bezier) can be used to connect such extension to an extisting WG. This should work well for any diameter of a particular phase plug, IMO.
@CinnamonRolls was able to get a great HF response that way.
@CinnamonRolls was able to get a great HF response that way.
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No, the idea is to use the smallest initial diameter available - typically the exit of the phase plug, but it's driver dependent. For this you need an open conical section at the exit of the driver, and "replace" it with a tubular segment.
This way you can make most of the 1.4" drivers to behave roughly like a 1", regarding the HF directivity. Or you can improve upon the HF response of a 1" driver (that's what @CinnamonRolls did, as far as I remember; or analogously for any other nominal exit size
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My concern is mostly, that if I am drawing a new adaptor plate for the wg, the initial start angle of the wg is still 6° instead of the exit angle of the cd.
I tried to visualize this to make it a bit clearer. What could be done is to shave of a bit of the wv throat until you meet the required angle but this is not a very good solution I think...
Stijn
I tried to visualize this to make it a bit clearer. What could be done is to shave of a bit of the wv throat until you meet the required angle but this is not a very good solution I think...
Stijn
I think that the extension could be longer, at least it seems to me it's quite a bit shorter than the original. I would make it longer and then wouldn't worry too much about that angle mismatch. It's not so big.
It would be easier it the entry angle of the waveguides was higher, of course. This is what worked so well, so I left it as it was.
It would be easier it the entry angle of the waveguides was higher, of course. This is what worked so well, so I left it as it was.