In Reply to: smoking around electrostatic speakers? posted by bullethead on August 13, 2012 at 14:11:52:
Dayton-Wright are filled with SF6, a heavier than air gas.
Unleaded gasoline causes failiures in electrostats (even the ones with grills/filters), because the catalytic converters in the cars reduce the particle size so much that the high-voltage on the E-stats sucks the carbon in anyway and it shorts out the HV supply boards, and the diaphragm/stator assemblies.
I suggest Dayton-Wright or nothing.
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- Dayton Wright, and unleaded gasoline - djk 16:11:24 08/13/12 (10)
- Sounds like a Hell of a case for these Dayton Wrights...ni - samstone 16:47:31 08/16/12 (0)
- My Acoustats are over 30 years old and still sounding great! nt - Snyder 16:37:24 08/13/12 (8)
- RE: My Acoustats - unclestu 14:14:08 08/14/12 (7)
- RE: My Acoustats - Snyder 18:51:57 08/14/12 (5)
- RE: My Acoustats - SgreenP@MSN.com 19:08:20 08/14/12 (4)
- RE: My Acoustats - Snyder 17:25:50 08/15/12 (2)
- RE: My Acoustats - SgreenP@MSN.com 06:00:48 08/16/12 (1)
- RE: My Acoustats - Snyder 16:46:27 08/16/12 (0)
- The high voltage resistors and capacitors - E-Stat 13:05:13 08/15/12 (0)
- RE: My Acoustats - djk 15:54:57 08/14/12 (0)