Re: replacing woofer in Warfedale speaker

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From: James Perrett
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00

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Ben Thomas wrote:
> 
> John Woodgate wrote:
> 
> > It may well be cheaper to get the woofer re-coned. There must be someone
> > in Oz who will do that. Shipping back to UK for re-coning is out, on
> > cost grounds.
> 
> Yeah, but my clever effort of kicking the woofer probably damaged
> the voice coil, so would reconing fix this?

When a speaker is reconed the whole moving part is replaced. This
includes the voice coil, cone and suspension. In my experience the most
common reason for reconing is for overheated voice coils which have
either warmed up so much that they are out of shape and rubbing or have
gone open circuit.

James.

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From: James Perrett <James.Perrett@soc.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: replacing woofer in Warfedale speaker
Date: 1999/01/06
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