mikecdm

Thanks, are the settings input correctly for the type of box. Is the common port walls amount correct? Once I get some time I'll start building. Also need see if the calculator gets update so that it's correct.

Well, I came up with this box. If the specs are correct in the calculator, then this should work. Would just like a second opinion to verify that this is right and I don't was time and material. I didn't put in total box height since there is no top, but would be 15"

I just got my Fi Q 12" back from getting reconed and now I want to build a ported box. I've never built a ported box and wanted to see if these numbers were right. I downloaded the torres box calculator thing and punched in some numbers that seem to work, but I'm not positive if it's right or not. I have a maximum of 30" W, 15.5" H. Depth has no limit but I'd like to keep it a minimum. I just want a good daily box and was basing this off Fi's recommended 32hz.

I have an Older 12" Q thats blown. I''ve finally decided to get it reconed but I want to build a ported box for it too. I see the the diagrams and cut sheets for the new Q, but i'm not sure if that will work for older model Q. It's also unfortunate that the cut sheets for that one are a tad too large for my trunk. I have a maximum of 30W 15H 18D, but depth can vary a bit. i was hoping on building the box during the time it takes to get my Q reconed. That should give me enough time to learn how to design a ported box. I have no idea on how to calculate port length and all that jazz. Thanks.

I've never tried tried doing the recone and never have on any other speaker.

It's a 12" Fi Q. I saw a few vids on youtube and tried looking through the forum, but couldn't find anything. I know i've seen something before, but couldn't find it now. I still need to order a recone kit. I just haven't been motivated to do anything about it. I have a bunch of dead stuff that i never bother to fix

I'll have to try it on my own then. Sub has been sitting in box for ages, just been too lazy.

Any of you DFW guys know how to recone a sub or willing to help me out? I live right near some of you arlington guys.

Thanks for the info. I think i'm just going to do a sealed box for now. It's a lot easier to make than a ported box and I'm lazy . It's a shame that this thing has been sitting in my garage for around 2 yrs, with stuff thrown on it and who knows what else.

I kind of assumed that when it only mentioned small sealed box. Prior to finding that page, I was planning on ported. I wanted to see what it could do, but hopefully I'll find out soon. Just need to make a box suited for this sub. It's been sitting for so long and I've never used it. I found it at a friends house when he was moving out and nobody claimed it. Since my Q is dead and I've had no bass for so long, I decided to try and fix this one.

I've had this sub for a few years just sitting in the garage. It has a hole in the rubber surround and one set of terminals broke off. I've attempted to fix both things, but I'm not sure about the enclosure size. It seems that the sub is so old that I can't find any info on it. I wanted to try and make a ported box, but now I'm kind of thinking on just making something around .75ft^3

The tinsel leads look fine and there seems to be no visible physical damage.

After checking the coils they both read the same. Unfortunately, neither of them does anything or give me any sort of reading. When doing the same to the other sub, the coils read around 3.5ohms. I"m not sure how long the warranty is, but I think that I've had the sub over a year. The enclusre is smaller than I'd like but still within the recommendations. It's a little over 0.9 cubic feet after displacement. As for the settings, I'm using the factory headunit, so that kind of limits what I can do. The amp has the bass boost pretty low, almost completely off. I'm not saying that I've never had it at high volumes, just recently I haven't. It's probably been several months since I listen to it at high volumes. It'd be hard to convince anyone that I've never pushed the sub.

Well just in the past few days I have noticed that my sub was not working. Me being the lazy person that I am put it off for a while assuming that just a connection was loose. Yesterday I finally got around to taking a look and all the connections outside of the box looked fine. The amp (sae-1000D) looked to be working fine, but no movement or sound from the sub. With the music playing I pushed the cone a little and then it made a little effort but once I moved my hand away it did nothing. This was initially, but today the sub does nothing at all, even when I push on it. Still not sure if the amp could be damaged, I connected another sub that I had laying around and that one works. This leads me to the conclusion that my Q is damaged. I really don't know how it could have been damaged since I rarely listen at high volumes and seldom do I listen to any bass heavy music. I pretty much drive to work and back and that's only a 10 minute drive. I'm not sure what would be the best course of action.

1.) Must all ready own a amplifier with output between 250w-400w @ 2 ohm mono. Must list what amplifier it is.(Sundown SAE-1000D) 2.) Must have Stereo installation experience. List your experience. (A few of my personal cars and helped out on some friends cars) 3.) Must be an ACTIVE SSA MEMBER with >=75 posts. (Close but enough) 4.) Must do a pictorial or build log of system with in two weeks of receiving subs...(Can do) 5.) Must do a medium length review with a decent array of music, listing sample tracks. (Can do) 6.) Will post review + build log(pictures) on multiple sites (Can do)