Hi, I just purchased a nice Hammond R-100. Will I be able to use my Leslie 700 with my organ? I realize the organ has a hatbox built in but could I use both?
Any help would be a blessing.
Thanks,
Lori
Hi Lori,
I bought the R100 service manual a short time ago but haven't gotten around to scanning it yet.
The only thing I can tell you intitially is the R100 has a socket for a series 10 Hammond tone cabinet, so a leslie kit will have to be thrown together.
I know my T500 would have plug and played with a 700, though the 700 has no horns which would make it not too dissimilar to what's already IN the R100, a Rotosonic drum with the bass though stationary speakers.
It WILL be able to be wired up to sound simultaneously with the internal speakers.
I haven't got all the details in my head, but there'll be a crossover mounted on your baffleboard near the main speakers, it'll have a large coil of wire, probably red if you can see any of it sticking out of the cover. This will be where you'll tap the bass channel from, and the internal leslie line will be where you take the rotary channel from. You should be able to trace some wires back from the internal leslie to some terminals near the crossover, they'll have a fat old capacitor on them (can't remember, a resistor too?)
The leslie manuals will tell you which pins control the speeds. You just have to send one or the other to ground/chassis and the relay will activate. Your leslie speed tab will be able to do the job. With a little luck it'll have three contacts underneath instead of just one, I haven't looked in the manual yet!
Found the spot, looks like it's just one contact and ground. So it's always either fast or slow, not winding down to stop (without modifying it).
At any rate, it seems everything's there to do the job, you may not even need a special kit.
According to the online lists the most suitable hookup kits might be:
7687 for a leslie 700/710 to hookup to an XTP (t series)... can't find a pdf of the wiring.
R100 and 700 is a workable combination, but apart from the 'separation' caused by the remote cabinet, you're not going to gain that much. As Brendon said, The 700's innards - Rotosonic drum rotary, plus 15" bass and a mid range unit in the straight channel, is pretty much the same as what's in the R. What you need is a 710, with the horns. The R comes alive with a set of horns on!
The kit you need is a 'standard two channel organ' one, the 2 channel version of the 26-1. I can't recall the number off-hand, but it's not the 8061. 7191 rings a bell.
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