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Old 5th December 2009, 05:25 AM   #15
collo
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Originally Posted by Jakeman1086 View Post
Please put his response on here whenever you get it. I don't want to build the diffusers and then find out they have major flaws. I'm hoping to start building Monday.

Here's the design I've been working on. It's not finished, but it incorporates my ideas for how to handle the modular end-wells. The picture shown is for panel 1. The middle panels will probably have ends similar to the short end of panel 1.

I'm worried about the deep wells in this design. I'm thinking I might put wooden spacers (wood texture pieces in the sketchup) in the deep wells to stabilize these parts.
We might not have an answer that quickly. He's a professor at Salford uni in the UK - with the end of term coming up fast, he's probably as busy as a one-legged man in an a** kicking competition!

I don't think you'll be looking at any major flaws - at worst it should be a slight tradeoff between equal-energy lobes vs bandwidth.

Some commercial designs use a bridging strut to support deep fins, such as this one from realtraps...
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