BC3 - 3rd Portable Hammond

So here's my third attempt at splitting a Hammond to get it in my car. This time I went for the three box approach - one for the tone generator (which doubles as a base for the whole thing), one for a single manual and preamp, and one for a shortened second manual. Since I only play left hand bass, I figured that I didn't need all those octaves and presets on the lower manual.

Here are a couple of pictures of the main manual on the tone generator base. The legs fold down onto the base when you lift off the manual. I've taken the back and top off so you can all see inside it. The tg is linked to the manual via four 25W shielded cables and D type connectors. There is very little noise or crosstalk produced. The bits are from an old BC, with an M100 preamp used mainly for the percussion (my toggle switches on the left - 2nd & 3rd can be selected together!) and for the bass manual.  I wired up all four of the drawbar sets to preset keys, (E and Eb as well as B and Bb).
Here are some closeups of the innards:

• Amp & drawbars
• Drawbar transformer
• Patch panel
• Percussion switchs
  

The second manual is an M100 upper manual with the lefthand drawbars sawn off, which sits on top of the main manual. It's wired into the main manual via three 25W cables (D type connectors) and it's transformer output goes into the RCA phono input on the preamp. It's also been painted black since the picture was taken.

There's a Leslie 145/147/251 style socket on the pack panel, with a 1/4" jack out in parrallel.