[TheForge] Electric Blower question

[Keith Holmes]

Try putting your gate on the air intake and not the output. If you are using 
a squirrel cage blower and cover the output you increase the load on the 
motor and could cause it to overheat.

I had the same situation with a Dayton squirrel cage blower. I have to say 
that with the intake covered completely there is still to much air being 
moved.

I plan to rework the blower when I construct my side draft hood and exhaust 
the "waste" air into the hood

Keith Holmes
Sparky's Forge


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TOOL GYPSY" <toolgypsy at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:16 PM
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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