The DPA Windpac uses a smooth polyester material. That's an entirely
different approach than using fur. Maybe a slick fabric over a foam
ball would be worth trying out. One consideration is a foam ball
might soak up rain like a sponge.
A nice thing about my Tree Ears design is even through several events
of all night steady rain and wind, so far they have kept the capsules
dry.
--- In "jpbeale" <> wrote:
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> --- In "John Hartog"
> <hartogj_1999@> wrote:
> > It would have been nice if they had used a sweep of a wider range of
> > frequencies for their reference signal to see how each windscreen
> > performed at higher frequencies. The foam might hiss kind of loud
> > with wind blowing across its textured surface.
>
> I guess the military interest is noise of trucks, helicopters and
> artillery, hence the lower frequencies. It was funny how they admitted
> they didn't finish testing the 3" foam ball because it got eaten in
> mid-test by the wind tunnel!
>
> I would be interested to hear how your test goes- I would also expect
> foam to hiss more than fur. The DPA Windpac is supposed to be good,
> without use of fur, but I've read it is only good with the front
> pointy side facing the wind, and not sideways. Maybe it could be
> mounted on a pivot, so it could weathervane into the wind? :-)
>
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