Dayton Audio WT3 Woofer Tester Review
Summary
- Product Name: Dayton Audio WT3 Woofer Tester
- Manufacturer: Dayton Audio
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- Review Date: April 17, 2008 18:50
- MSRP: $ 99.88US.unit
- Specifications
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Primary Use: Woofer impedance measurement, Thiele/Small parameter generation
Secondary Use: Impedance measurement of drivers other than woofers and a variety of passive components.
System Type: USB (USB 1.1 compliant, USB 2.0, preferred).
Connector: 1 pair, built-in alligator clips
Power requirement: Unit draws power from USB port; no batteries or external power supply required.
Test signal: Upward-swept Sine wave
Frequency Display/Sweep Width (Hz): Adjustable LF & HF points
LF Limits: 1 Hz to 10 kHz
HF Limits: 10 Hz to 20 kHz
Software: Program included, must be installed manually
Calibration resistor supplied
Hardware manufactured in China, software in USA.
Warranty: Warranted free from defects in material and workmanship for 5 years from date of purchase .
Pros
- Easy to install & easy to use
- Impressively accurate measurement data
Cons
- Quirky user interface
- Limited data post-processing capabilities
- Minimal help section & user manual
Introduction
Recent Forum Posts:
All of the volume levels for both audio out and record in should be at the max and the balance be set to the middle. If your settings are not these you will possibly see anomalies (i.e. strange spikes or dips, jagged plots, etc...) in the plot graphs.
Also in Vista on some systems the USB ports can be individually adjusted, so if you set it up on one port for testing and then the next day use a different port you may see anomalies in the measurements.
And as stated in the article there is a 90 second stabilization time for the unit, it is necessary to wait otherwise there will be anomalies in the test graphs.
And if you have it set up properly and calibrated and are getting strange graphs there could be two other causes:
1) Other noise in the testing area (i.e. kids, dogs barking, etc...) these things will affect the plot (testing should be done in a semi-quite room.
2) The .ini file became corrupted, just delete it and restart the WT3
Hope this helps.
