The chit chat about aero using leaf blowers etc has reminded me that I need to get a leaf blower to do some testing with. Not aero but mass air flow sensor testing. I want to stack up 2 vane air flow
Toro Super Blower model 51591 (2 speed) "215mph" on the label. Outlet area 2.41 square inches measured as follows: Measures length and width of approx. oval nozzle 1.11" x 2.68" Flattened a lump of
I had a lawn maintenance business for over 20 years as a sideline. The most powerful leaf blower was and I believe still is the Red Max 8000. The only proper measurement for efficiency is CFM. The R
Geez Ed, you didn't use a gps-enhanced coordinate axis measuring machine with a MathCad program to calculate the area? Benn -- Original Message -- From: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net> To: <drmay
With all that verification of cross sectional area, I should at least have 6 or seven significant digits, lol... _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/d
I was hoping for something in the <50 buck range, lol. And what the heck is a "sucker car" experiment? _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html
Ed, as I mentioned before, thanks for th einfo. It looks like a leaf blower wont hack it...but lemme check the numbers here... 215 mph = 215 * 88 /60 * 60 ft/min = 18.920 ft/min. If I multiply the cr
Weren't your units in feet one place and inches in another? Maybe I missed the ft/in conversion? Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ --Original Message-- From: land-speed-bounces+neil=dbelltech.com@autox.team.
yup, screwed up. I had square inches and then divided that by cubic inches instead of sq inches per sq ft should have been 18920 (ft/min) * 2.41 (sq inches) / 144 (sq inches/sq ft) only a factor of 1
Used swamp cooler, Kestrel 4100, and a hand full of pulleys er sheathes? so the real cfm is about 316 cfm much better. And I could use 2 of them in parallel to get > than 500 cfm. good catch... mayf
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My model51591 El Toro Didn't work good until I took off the EPA speed control And replaced it with a "God Forbid "toggle switch! Jack _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net
Arrrrgh.....I keep telling you freshmen to pay attention to units when you solve your problems and quit thinking about that pretty girl who just laughs at you. Lord have mercy!! Someday you'll be des
You're absolutely right--you always need to carry the units and do rough order of magnitude checks. I think the useful life of analytical design methods is about thirty years tops, by then the built
Data point here: I'm on my 2nd 51591. Cooked the motor on the first one after 10 months. Good warranty. I always run them on high speed. Lotsa doug fir needles and such. Ed Weldon ___________________
A few more bits of tech re; The Blower Redmax EBZ8000 24.9 lbs 943 cfm !!!! 203 mph $570.00 (at my nearest dealer)...Discounts probably now during off season. Bob W **Start the year off right. Easy w
Nahh, you just caught me on a good day.... Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ _____ Hard to get one by Neil ;-) Ed _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.ht