The firs is never good enough - New bench made of steel and carbonfibre

[Erik]

First of all thanks to all people on this forum for the inspiration and good ideas.
I decided to make a new bench and use some parts from the old one.
The frame and chambers is in steel easier to seal than any wood material (I am not a friend of wood it is impossible to weld and always get to short when it is cut).
It is an intake/exhaust bench with two fixed orifices that gives me three ranges.
Still same 12 motor setup but now as a module separated from chambers.
I did also learn the hard way that ametech blowers is rated at 60Hz and we use 50Hz
So I did lose 20% of rated capacity.
Next step is to make a new blower box with 16 blowers that will put me over 1000cfm
Still use FP1 and now with Air Flow Control Valve.
Pictures at



Erik

[bruce]

Industrial strength!! Looks good!

I like the composite panels.

[blaktopr]

Speechless.

[MrHijet]

wow! I am stunned!

[Tony]

That is incredible, fantastic workmanship Erik !!!

[larrycavan]

Erik,

You've got a pretty nice shop there. The flowbench looks great!

[Erik]

First of all thanks everybody for the nice words

Now I have updated the bench with a motor controler type of thing.
I did find a DIY dimmer that could handle 220V/2200W I did put three of them in a box one per motor and it work.
The dimer whas $15 per kit in sweden.
The bench mow makes 700cfm @28"
The next step is a new motorbox with 15 motors the goal is 1000 cfm

[FPV_GTp]