HDN-8 Weatherproof Sound Exciter Transducer
Quick Overview
Compact and extremely versatile, the HDN-8 Sound Exciter Transducer lets you create high-quality ‘hidden speakers’ in walls, ceilings, and floors, or add tactile excitement to furniture and seating.Product Highlights
- Rugged plastic housing with black matte finish
 - Coarse-threaded mounting stud for single-point mounting into almost any material
 - Hermetically-sealed design for installation in wet or humid environments
 
Product Manuals / Spec Sheets / Downloads
Dayton Audio HDN-8 User ManualDayton Audio HDN-8 Application Guide
Dayton Audio HDN-8 Specification Sheet
Buying Options
Unlike a tactile transducer that delivers shake effects to your listening experience, the HDN-8 Sound Exciter Transducer is a full range, versatile, compact transducer that can excite a surface or structure over a wide bandwidth, enabling the creation of completely hidden audio systems in walls, ceilings, and floors. Its high power handling allows it to produce useful sound levels with a small number of transducers, and its hermetically-sealed design permits indoor or outdoor installation, even in wet or humid environments such as outside decking or an inside bath/shower installations. It features a single, coarse-threaded mounting stud that easily installs into wood, fiberglass, or plastic, and the 8-ohm impedance allows integration with conventional audio amplifiers.
Dimensions: 4" W x 1.75" H
Dayton Audios HDN-8 exciters have even be used in audio enabled art installations:
See these exciters in action – Watch SHIMMER by Dan Fox
To understand more about exciter technology, here is a link to the Exciters Buyers Guide .
| Speaker Series | Exciters | 
| Model Number | HDN-8 | 
| Color | Black | 
| Unit of Measure | Each | 
| UPC | 848791000041 | 
| Warranty - Parts | 5 Years | 
| Warranty - Labor | 5 Years | 
| Product Shipping Weight (lbs.) | 2.3 | 
| Speaker Type | Exciter | 
| Power Handling (RMS) | 50 watts | 
| Power Handling (max) | 100 watts | 
| Continuous Program Power | -- | 
| Impedance | 8 ohms | 
| Sensitivity | -- | 
| Frequency Response | 
             40 - 15 000 Hz  | 
        
| Voice Coil Diameter | 50 mm | 
| Magnet Weight | -- | 
| DC Resistance (Re) | 7.46 ohms | 
| Voice Coil Inductance (Le) | 0.86 mH @ 1 kHz | 
| Resonant Frequency (Fs) | 695 Hz | 
| Mechanical Q (Qms) | -- | 
| Electromagnetic Q (Qes) | -- | 
| Total Q (Qts) | 1.52 | 
| Diaphragm Mass Inc. Airload (Mms) | 38.2 g | 
| Moving Mass Of Diaphragm (Mmd) | -- | 
| Mechanical Compliance of Suspension (Cms) | -- | 
| Surface Area Of Cone (Sd) | -- | 
| Volume of Displacement (Vd) | -- | 
| BL Product (BL) | 18.2 Tm | 
| Compliance Equivalent Volume (Vas) | -- | 
| Maximum Linear Excursion (Xmax) | -- | 
| Drivers Mechanical Losses (Rms) | -- | 
| Entry / Exit Diameter | -- | 
| Surround Material | -- | 
| Voice Coil Wire Material | -- | 
| Voice Coil Former | -- | 
| Basket/Frame Material | -- | 
| Magnet Material | -- | 
| Overall Outside Diameter | -- | 
| Overall Depth | -- | 
| Baffle Cutout Diameter | -- | 
| Mounting Hole Diameter | -- | 
| Bolt Circle Diameter | -- | 
| Product Weight | -- | 

