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Old 02-09-2018, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by AndrewJ View Post
Bit of overkill for an EQ6.

Also, there are myriad threads on pier vibrations/stiffness.
Unless there is something to create vibrations, it is all moot.
If there are vibrations present, you probably need to do a proper analysis, as designing to suppress them is not as simple as add mass/stiffness.

Accidentally hitting a mount ( or wind on the OTA ) is the worst normal scenario, and in this case, the OTA and mount are normally far weaker than the pier, so you will lose the subs, no matter what.


Andrew
Indeed, ideally you want low mass and high moment of inertia, so any perturbation will have a low amplitude (eg immune to small breeze) and decay quickly. That said even an EQ6 probably deserves better than a 8-10mm diameter bolt...the attached diagram from my old engineering text don’t lie.
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