Hi there Terry
Op 31 Aug 97 16:41 you wrote something about *2 system balancing*...
and this is part *2* of it....
TK> What are cataracts ?
TS> Deteriorated/clouded portions of the lens in animal eyes.  In humans they
TS> usually try to remove the natural lens, use temporary contacts or high 
plus
TS> limited field spectacles temporarily, and then imbed replacement lenses
TS> requiring a less severe correction thereafter.  (Sometimes confused with
TS> glaucoma, or abnormally high intraocular pressure best cured in mild 
ases
TS> by smoking marijuana, any fraudulent 'war on drugs' BS blocking such
TS> medical treatments aside....)
Oh man....what a relief to live here...in Holland. :)
TS>> Are you familiar with the Crown 10 KW 3-phase
TK>> Nope...what is the 3-phase deal ?
TS> Most commercial equipment starts using 3 phase power around 5 KW or so.
Yeah...I know...I've done a lot on high power gear...but I've never seen an 
amplifier with a CEE-Form 5-p connector at the back...if you know what I 
an.
TS> Powering linear solenoids vibrating military/aerospace equipment, cars, 
and
TS> such during testing benefits from large singular amps.
Those things are to test wear an tear of 'testobjects' like planes...right ?
TS>  Speakers can better make do and optimize damping factor by a larger
TS> number of smaller amps more closely coupled to small numbers of drivers,
TS> allowing units that can function within 15 or so amps of single phase 120
TS> VAC.
TS> Those Crown amps as I recall (without chekcing) have an output Z of 0.67
TS> ohm.
Not really good...that is a dampingsfactor of just above 10...but OTOH the 
amp won't have to do audio...or it has to do such a low frequency spectrum 
that impulse-response doesn't matter..
TS>> What would the acoustic experience be like if such an arrangement were
TS>> used to reproduce audio by vibrating the listener in the surrounding
TS>> air, rather than the other way around?
TK>> I think he will be sick within a few minutes...you
TK>> better spend some money on vomit-bags then..
No...just kidding....I think it would be OK to use this in the cinema for 
special effects...(e.g.the film 'Quake')
TS> System efficiency is usually a topic of pro systems, and affects rigging
TS> points on colliseum roofs, number of 18 wheelers and roadies to be
TS> budgetted operating a tour, and whether the sound will require more or 
less
TS> generator power than the lighting at a remote outdoor show.  I was sort 
f
TS> trying to see if any consumer types here had any clue about the topic of
TS> absolute audio power and transfer efficiency, or realized that it had 
ore
TS> to do with real audio performance than amp ratings.
I know about the (bad) efficiency of audio transducers...therefore I'm fond 
of (folded)horn systems as subs......subs have to deliver 80% of the over-all 
acoustical power......
TS>> What's the Sydney organ like?
TK>> The Opera House grand organ is the largest mechanical
TK>> action organ in the world, it weights 37 tonnes, 15
TK>> meter high, 13 meter wide and 8 meters deep. It has
TK>> six departments: Pedal, Ruckpsitiv, Hauptwerk,
TK>> Brustwerk and Kronwerk.
TS> Mechanical action meaning solenoid remote driven stops, or 
electropneumatic
TS> valving, or what?
Mechanical action = keys moving bits of wood and metal to move the 
valves...the recording and playback section uses a seperate electromechanical 
system.
TS> 15 M high sounds like it could just accomodate those 32' pipes without
TS> being bent, with a walk in sized air chest underneath.
That's right.
TS>  Does it use a high volume, inches of water column pressure air chest
TS> regulator/plenum in the Austin style?
Not that I know of.
TS> How many ranks are over what sized air chest(s), or otherwise arranged?
There are 9 blowers so there probably will be 9 air chests to get the maximum 
out of it...
TS>   What's the conversion from tonnes (weighs,
TS> not weights, BTW, at least in American English) to pounds or KG?  (Or US
TS> tons, at 2000 lbs. = 1 ton)
I don't know what an Australian tonne is like
TK>> The power supply of the 8000 CMOS IC's (8V) is derived
TK>> from the 17V/400ADC powersupply for electric action.
TS> Amazing how archaic this sounds already, for such a relatively new
TS> organ....
Better this way...It would cost me nightmares if it was to run (and crash) on 
a Pentium under Microshit Windblows...
TS> Any idea what separate and total horsepower, and whether the nine sum 
nto
TS> a single plenum, or are used to power different sections with different
TS> pressures, flow rates, or to reduce intermodulation?
Nope
TK>> with temperature sensing alarms and automatic BCF gas fire
TK>> extinguishers.
TS> Is that like Halon, which is perhaps the most effective for such uses, 
ut
TS> already banned in many countries to reduce CFC output?
How should I know ?
TK>> Apart from the 5 manuals and the pedal system there
TK>> are 2 CCTV monitors a telephone/intercom and a
TK>> talkback mic. to P.A. system
TS> Why should such things be needed?
As an intercom system and also to keep track of the music-conductor.
TS> What's the distance/time delay back to the console,
what kind of delay ? from what source ?
TS> and relative hall, pipe, and console orientation?
Above the stage..
TS> What style hall is it acoustically and as to typical uses?
Find some info about the Sydney Opera House.....I only have some info on the 
organ :)
Greetingzetcetera, Thom
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