Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

Hoping for the best here, let's see if I can in fact upload video content to the Forum successfully, I will attempt to introduce you all to the members of "The Choir" individually, and let you get a listen to each as they warm up and go through their individual range of scales.

Let's start with one of my personal favorites ... the Mini-Pelton, which while rather small, has a powerful voice and an impressive range, though a somewhat limited sustain. Powered by a tangential input impacting double side by side semi-circular depressions in the face of each blade, which in cross section looks like the numeral 3, such that the airflow is split in the center and caused to follow around the circumference of each chamber exhausting out both sides of the open wheel, thus reversing and exiting in the opposite direction, and thereby imparting nearly twice the force of that produced by a simple flat blade.

Here then ... the Mini-Pelton:

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