Decibal Calculator?

Does anyone know of a website that tells you how to calculate the total decibals of numerous things at numerous decibals? __________________ what exactly are you referring to? home speakers? auto speakers? oh, and another thing, it is decibels, not decibals (actually, it started out as deciBell (after Alexander G. Bell and got simplified to decibel) __________________ ... Oh yeah, some useful websites are here and here So basically, it's 10 times the log of the sum of the inverse logs of each decibel value over 10. [Edited by coleslaw on 12-02-2000 at 05:47 PM] __________________ Fan X @ 30 dBa Fan Y @ 27 dBa Fan z @ 21 dBa Lets say i have fans X, Y, and Z in my computer case and I want to calculate the total amount of dBa. I think some of these sites may help me. This is for overclocking... __________________ A fan of a certain decibel reading simply means that that is how loud it is, correct? Or does decibels for fans mean the measure of the air pressure supplied? __________________ Actually, I don't think it really matters what the measurement represents. If something is based on a logarithmic scale such as decibels, you should use the above equation to sum them. __________________ It represents how loud it is... Now, if some VB Coder would help me make a program that would do all this... I was making attempts at it but couldnt get it to work. __________________ DBs are the log of the ratio of the amount of power recieved per area from sound waves to the threshold of human hearing. I'll use metric units. db = 10log[( X watts/metre^2)/( y watts/metre^2)] Where X is the amount of energy recived from changes in pressure per second per square meter, and Y is the threshold of human hearing. Its a constant, but I don't remember what it is. But coleslaw's right, it doesn't matter, we don't need to know that. Total db = 10log( 10^3 + 10^2.7 + 10^2.1 ) = 32.11dbs, not accounting for noise cancelation. By the way, all this is from memory, so if it's wrong, I'm sorry. Feel free to correct it. Mavi forum