Dampning Material Idea - good, bad ?
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Dampning Material Idea - good, bad ?
Hey, i was looking for some camping gear last weekend, and i perchaced myself a foam sleeping bag mat
http://www.thebackpackstore.com/foampad.html
would this work well as sound dampning/stoping for a computer case ? has any one tryed it yet ?
http://www.thebackpackstore.com/foampad.html
would this work well as sound dampning/stoping for a computer case ? has any one tryed it yet ?
This is not true.exxowire wrote:I think Its quite wasteful to use any acoustic damping UNLESS you hear significant vibration, then your only EFFECTIVE choice is the AcoustiPack.
1. There are other effective choices besides AcoustiPack.
2. There are 3 purposes for sound damping materials - vibration damping, sound absorption, sound deflection/blocking.
Although I will agree that case damping is probably near the end of your quieting efforts. Quiet components should come first.
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FWIW....I was looking around in the camping section of a Walmart, and I found a similar foam pad, slightly different from the one in the first link. It was a blue eggcrate-type material, with a second orange layer of denser foam. The blue eggcrate layer was open-cell and the orange layer was closed cell. The pad was rolled-up.....looked to be about 1 1/2" thick. I'll bet that thing would work well for sound dampening. $20 for a big sheet.
I seriously doubt anything inside a computer gets hot enough to catch any foam material on fire......
I seriously doubt anything inside a computer gets hot enough to catch any foam material on fire......
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page 3266, under "sound absorbers" of the McMaster-Carr catalogue at McMaster.com has some adheasive-backed sound absorbing foam of various types and application designations.
I use the 1" skinned, adheasive-backed black foam on top of a vibration dampening layer. sandwiching the vibration dampener between 2 layers of the absorber is better still, but gets rather thick.
I use the 1" skinned, adheasive-backed black foam on top of a vibration dampening layer. sandwiching the vibration dampener between 2 layers of the absorber is better still, but gets rather thick.