[TheForge] Electric Blower question

[Daniel T. Hayes]

Paddy,

The best approach is to restrict the intake. If you were to measure you
motor's line draw, you'd find that choking the output increases the load on
the motor (you already noticed that), but choking the intake will actually
lighten the motor load. More efficient use of electricity but more
importantly, longer motor life.

Too bad this technique doesn't work on water pumps. My pond filter came with
a grossly oversized pump and the only way to adjust the flow is to choke the
output.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of TOOL GYPSY
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:16 PM
To: theforge at mailman.qth.net; The_Anvil at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [TheForge] Electric Blower question

Hello all
    I installed an electric blower with a reostat on my forge. When on the 
lowest speed it is still running a bit to much air so i added an 
airgate.this works fine except the motor tries to compensate by speeding up 
a tad or three like a vacumn clener with your hand over the hose.My question

is,  should i ignore this and see what comes of it.will this overheat the 
motor? or should i reroute the air to exhaust when the gate is closed ?
   Paddy P the wannabe

                                                          Nova Scotia  
Canada


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