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Subject: [AMPS] Emtron DX1
From: 2@vc.net (measures)
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 20:58:49 -0700
>
>>
>> >Subject: Re: [AMPS] Emtron DX1
>> >
>> >
>> >> >
>> >> >My suggestion is this; for a permanent totally silent fix for your DX-1.
>> >> >There is a large company here in the USA called W.W. Grainger.
>> >> >They have all of the parts I am about to suggest.
>> >> >
>> >> >Since the fan is bolted to the rear of the cabinet outboard of the 
>chassis,
>> >> >it can easily be removed, and a suitable plenum fabricated to cover
>> >> >the hole and adapt a 3 inch common clothes drier hose in its place.
>> >> >On the other end of the hose, a suitable adapter is made to adapt the
>> >> >hose to the centrifugal blower that you select for the job. The longer 
>the
>> >> >hose,
>> >> >the bigger the blower you will need. Here at 600 feet above sea level, I
>> >> >have a 1/12 HP blower feeding 25 feet of 2 1/2 inch hose, and it 
delivers
>> >> >over 250 cfm of air to a pair of 4CX1500B's.
>> >>
>> >> What is the water-column pressure measured at the tube socket?
>> >> thanks
>> >
>> >Quite a bit more than the stock internal blower. Exaust air flow nearly
>> >doubled in pressure due to the size of the remote blower.
>> >
>> ''Quite a bit'' is not much help.   I need a measurement.  //  I am going
>> after the statement of ''over 250 cfm...''.  Just because the blower
>> manufacturer says congratulations, you have purchased a 250cfm blower
>> does not mean that it will actually do 250.  .  Eimac says that at sea
>> level, it takes 0.6" of pressure to flow 34cfm in a 4CX1500B.  My guess
>> is that to put 250cfm through a pair of 1500B coolers, it would take a
>> Force-4 hurricane.
>
>Sorry, Rich...I cannot help you. 
>I have no measuring equipment......

?  A manometer is easy to make.  



cheers, Phil


-  Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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