Thanks brother. 👍

What a beauty motor !! Nice basket too alot of builders use those baskets

Yes, people focus way too much on one thing, versus the whole picture. Thicker top plates provide better control and a more even force and saturation on the voice coil, but yes it does reduce xmax and doesn't get the motorforce as condensed so to speak. Thicker top plates can allow for increased winding widths, as long as you have the internal depth overall, to accommodate that. A deeper magnet is typically used for more internal clearance, which can aid and help accommodate the longer coil in those with higher excursion, but it has a much more difficult time focusing the magnetic force... again, my opinion. People focus way too much on xmax alone, in my opinion again. To me personally, I think those huge xmax subs tend to sound "washed out" or more muddy, under heavy excursion.

@@Chuck_Sanders Different bass goals...100mm wind heigh, tall TP, and 6" deep gap for sub 20hz door flapping. 30-40mm wind height for better sound from 30hz and up I guess

@@Mr.NiceGuy-xd3mm they are both, one in the same. Some call it the "winding width" and others call it the "wind height" as they are both the same thing.

Hey Miles, thanks for the comment. So, as you increase the thickness of the top plate, it can increase the overall motor force factor, but at a point it can start to decrease the peak flux in the gap. Also by increasing the top plate thickness, it is a wider field for the coil to reside in, when in axial movement, and most times allows for greater wind height to an extent. To calculate xmax, you take the wind height of the coil minus the gap height /2, and that gives you the xmax. The depth of your motor can be a determining factor, due to the depth internally which can dictate the amount of wind width you can run safely in an overhung design. I'm going to make another video on this all, this evening. I've had a few questions about all this lol. I hope that helps..

@@Chuck_Sanders YES. It helps. There’s a great amount of info in your videos. I kinda know what makes a sub work, but not what’s happening when it’s being damaged, or how all the specs relate to one another. I watch the channel man👍

@@milesbachelor8747 thank you buddy. I'm not the best at explaining without using visual. I'm going to try and do that in this next video.

It could be several things, honestly. If it is new, I would contact Sundown.