Blower Startup - Newberry Organ, Yale
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What did these DC motors originally use,an older rectifier,motor/generator set or did they use DC city mains?
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They are DC. And I've been around much quieter DC motors.
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@bw4t The majority of the organ is on 6" with the following exceptions: Great 10", Solo 15", 16' Opheclide 20", 32' 16' 8' Bombarde & 8' Orchestral Trombone & 8' Tumpet Harmonique are on 25"
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This is fantastic! The Newberry is one of my favorite organs. Heard it many times when I lived in New Haven. Thank you for sharing this clip!
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There are two sets of switches, one set is at the console and the other set is next to the blowers.
There is a computer controller, but it's a separate system. It is only used to run one of the blowers at a very slow speed, the purpose being to circulate humidified air through the entire wind system of the organ during the heating season. They are also both Spencer blowers =)
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My church can start up their four Spencer blowers with one press of a button, fully automated. Nice to see some manual labour though, orginal breakers and all :-). What manufacturer of blower are these?
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I see two blowers, right? And you started just one? Interesting how long it took before it really wound up and filled the reservoir. Three phase current?
Larsky1010 2 years ago
The second one is there for redundancy. Most people turn on Blower 1, and we have the humidification system running through Blower 2 since it gets used less. When the humidification system is running through the dry winter months, it runs the blower at a very slow speed to circulate the air from the humidifiers behind the blower room. It's a 4 stage start up, and yeah it does take some time before they're going full speed.
zack8078 2 years ago
wait, whats that accordion resivoir for?
cheetawolf 2 years ago
This one is a "static reservoir" which regulates the static pressure from the blowers. From here, the main windlines feed the rest of the organ. Since this is a very large organ (it has over 10,000 pipes), there are many smaller reservoirs, much like this one, placed throughout the organ. Even a small pipe organ will usually have at least one reservoir. Their basic function is to provide a steady amount of wind at a specific pressure.
zack8078 2 years ago