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Today, 02:27 AM

pnoneal... replied to a thread OT: Bought me a piece of land in the Philippines in Tech Talk Forum

That flight is loooong. You will definitely have jet lag for a few days. When it's day in the states it's night over here and a day ahead. It took...

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Yesterday, 11:53 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread OT: Bought me a piece of land in the Philippines in Tech Talk Forum

The job opportunities are available,but the pay is low. For manual labor they get 240 pesos a day. That's $6 a day or 0.75 cents an hour. Teachers...

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Yesterday, 10:06 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread OT: Bought me a piece of land in the Philippines in Tech Talk Forum

Yes, downtown is a 5 minute drive. You can walk it in about 40 minutes to the town center. It's a growing area where people are in need of housing....

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Yesterday, 06:45 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread OT: Bought me a piece of land in the Philippines in Tech Talk Forum

Thank you for that offer, it's very kind of you. And you are correct, the airfare cost us $1750 x 2 for both of us. That's almost 4 grand on...

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Yesterday, 06:41 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread OT: Bought me a piece of land in the Philippines in Tech Talk Forum

Thank you sir. We've been married for 34 years now.

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Yesterday, 06:40 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread OT: Bought me a piece of land in the Philippines in Tech Talk Forum

I was in the Navy around 25 years ago and we (U.S.A.) had a base over their. That's where I met and married my of 34 years now. We were tired of...

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Yesterday, 03:58 AM

pnoneal... started a thread OT: Bought me a piece of land in the Philippines in Tech Talk Forum

Paid a whooping $875.00 for 180 square meters which is equivalent to 1937.5 square feet. This is not for a home. My wife is going to make me a...

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Yesterday, 02:51 AM

Wolf replied to a thread Deepest playing 8" midwoofer in Tech Talk Forum

I've never personally cared for the Seas L series drivers. That is only my opinion. YMMV. Later, Wolf

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Yesterday, 02:50 AM

Wolf replied to a thread Deepest playing 8" midwoofer in Tech Talk Forum

Agreed- the RSS210HF-4 is low sensitivity, but bass it does provide, and will play cleanly to 800Hz+ to mate to dome mids if required. I used a 12dB...

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Yesterday, 02:36 AM

Wolf replied to a thread WmAx (Chris) Passed Away... in Tech Talk Forum

Wow- I knew he wasn't much older than me, and that he had lots of health issues. Agreed that his viewpoints on some aspects of the hobby were...

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Yesterday, 12:14 AM

pnoneal... replied to a thread Have a question about wiring the crossover. in Tech Talk Forum

My eyes have been open. When designing in Speaker Workshop I always tied the tweeter to the source. So it was modeling correct, I just put it...

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05-23-2013, 10:25 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread Have a question about wiring the crossover. in Tech Talk Forum

So this is correct right?

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05-23-2013, 08:42 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread Have a question about wiring the crossover. in Tech Talk Forum

I still have some measuring equipment but it's in storage while I'm living in the Philippines. I'm just glad someone noticed on my Sonorous thread...

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05-23-2013, 08:31 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread Sonorous Project Build Thread in Tech Talk Forum

You were right. I've been doing it wrong all along. It was confirmed in a separate thread. I have since updated my SkyDrive to show the right way...

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05-23-2013, 07:44 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread Have a question about wiring the crossover. in Tech Talk Forum

Boy I feel ignorant about this. I've done all my past designs like this. I will definitely take this to heart and run two hot wires from the amp. ...

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05-23-2013, 05:11 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread Have a question about wiring the crossover. in Tech Talk Forum

It's not a big deal having two positive leads--one for the woofer and one for the tweeter. But, this is how speaker workshop shows the diagram and...

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05-23-2013, 04:51 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread Have a question about wiring the crossover. in Tech Talk Forum

That's where I wire it to is directly to the inductor. So I have the tweeter cap connected to both the woofer inductor, woofer cap, tweeter cap, and...

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05-23-2013, 04:43 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread What does inadequate bracing sound like? in Tech Talk Forum

I've had good results making my cabinets like this. John Krutke used the same method on his sub-woofer IIRC. It may, as you say, make them less...

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05-23-2013, 04:25 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread What does inadequate bracing sound like? in Tech Talk Forum

It can also cause some ringing if the skin is too thin. It also causes the bass to decrease at lower levels when the panels are too thin. I used a...

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05-23-2013, 04:14 PM

pnoneal... started a thread Have a question about wiring the crossover. in Tech Talk Forum

In my schematic I have the tweeter capacitor directly connected to the woofer inductor on the positive side instead of bringing off another positive...

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05-23-2013, 04:07 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread Sonorous Project Build Thread in Tech Talk Forum

That's what I've always done and they measured right. I'll post another thread about this just to make sure though. I could have been doing it...

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05-23-2013, 04:05 PM

pnoneal... replied to a thread Sonorous Project Build Thread in Tech Talk Forum

Some CAD drawings in 3D would be nice of the three graphs I did in pencil. The monitor and the HT top and bottom pieces. If you find yourself with...

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05-23-2013, 10:49 AM

Wolf replied to a thread Way OT but wanted to share something unusual in Tech Talk Forum

VERY COOL! That had to be a sight to see... Marc- the first I didn't know was called a Tiger moth and we have those around here. The second...

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05-23-2013, 10:44 AM

Wolf replied to a thread Non-polarized capacitors in Tech Talk Forum

Impedance comp can be out of bandwidth or limited range, and that does make it harder or near impossible to hear. Thing is- B&W do have a bottom...

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05-23-2013, 10:38 AM

Wolf replied to a thread Non-polarized capacitors in Tech Talk Forum

Yes, Alan- 2 100uF polarized 50VDC caps back to back yield a 50uF 100VDC cap. Later, Wolf

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05-23-2013, 10:08 AM

Wolf replied to a thread What's the deepest playing 5" midwoofer? in Tech Talk Forum

The 15W/8530K00 is repped as having the best bass in 15 ltrs. I think in my 18 ltrs I was able to get 35 Hz outta them. In 15 ltrs, marginally higher...

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05-23-2013, 09:53 AM

pnoneal... replied to a thread Sonorous Project Build Thread in Tech Talk Forum

It's correct. The 10uf cap is connect to the positive side of the source. The top line on the source is + and the bottom line is the negative. So...

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05-23-2013, 01:50 AM

Wolf replied to a thread Cable burn in? Really in Tech Talk Forum

What's all this about 'burning-in' wires? Here I thought cryogenic freezing was the bees-knees!! FWIW- most of the patch cables that they sell in...

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