Belltron in Mexico

Date: April 07, 2014

Xico (Veracruz), Mexico is a beautiful magical pueblo that knows how to make itself loved with its magnificent homes and churches, its flowers and fruit trees, but also with its green mountains and its fragrant coffee plantations.

The Belltron linear motors, top Italian quality products at the service of the church,  were installed to give rhythm  to the sky above the convent.  The manager,  Mr. Giuseppe Libetti and the bell installer Mr. Luigi Russo, personally committed themselves to carry out this project, which had already had seen them involved in a first inspection trip in year 2013. Three Italian manufactured cast bells were mounted externally along with three Belltron linear motors and hammers.

Within a heavily vegetated area you can find the neo monastic structure of the Benedictine nuns, namely,  the convent of San Juan Bautista. The work was done by a construction company belonging to Mr. Loreto Nicoletti, managing director of the company who has been repeatedly engaged in the construction and restoration of church structures in Italy and abroad.

The convent of San Juan Bautista will officially have the bells play for the first time on the opening day scheduled for the 24th June. Following is a brief video demonstration of the work:

Inside the impressive and modern structure of the monastery a 5 second reverberation fault was discovered causing a rather important issue. Having detected this problem, the Belltron manager and technician decided it would be necessary to install suitable speakers to eliminate this problem. Consequently, the Belltron CA65 speakers were installed. These speakers are advanced systems in the industry and are designed to guarantee an excellent voice intelligibility in reverberant environments. The speakers are controlled by the BPA245PRO 1000 Watt amplifier also made by Belltron.

The internal audio installation is made up of:

•    BPA 245 1000 Watt digital amlifier;
•    BDL135 digital antilarsen
•    BPR 320 parametric equalizer
•    N. 2 CA 65/12 speakers; N. 4 CA 65/36 speakers;
•    N.1 MB45FAL microphone, N. 2 MB45FAMC microphones.

Concerning the swinging of the cast bells and their amplification, Belltron installed:
•    3 bronze cast bells made in Italy;
•    3 linear motors;
•    GM860 cast bell controller

BELLS	NOTE NOMIN.	WEIGHT KG.
I	SI	240 Kg
II	RE b	170 Kg
III	MI b	120 Kg