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Sunday 22 April 2012

High Pressure Hot Air Blower - Add-ons

We have been reworking the Blower Inlet to improve the air flow and to make the design more compact.  The picture does not show that the Air Inlet has a circular flange but upcoming pictures will better demonstrate those features.

The Air Inlet can be rotated in 45° increments to accommodate various applications.


                                          

The Impeller is balanced to better than G.4 standard which is often referred to as gyroscopic level.  The Blower in our application is nevertheless mounted on 2" Rubber Mounts while the Inlet and Outlet are equipped with Flex Pipe to reduce the transmission of vibration from the turning components.  The Flex Pipe photo, above, is the Outlet Connector.  It is rather short due to a constrained space available. Where more space is available a longer Flex Connector can be supplied to add flexibility in the connection to off angle sources or destinations.

Previous attempts to use rolled Flexible Exhaust Pipe resulted in leakage especially at the flange connection.

The Blower output was higher than the expected requirement therefore we were able to reduce the Blower speed to approximately 12,500 rpm.  It is an approximate number due to memory rather than ability to measure accurately.  This modification significantly reduced the background noise generated within the workspace.  The vacuum pulling capacity is still fulfilling the requirements.