Well, after a few days acting as an industrial electrician I have all three of my machines up and running. The edge sander is powered and plumbed for DC. The W&H molder is powered with a hookup for DC when in use. The big one was the 3 spindle shaper.
Most of you know about this tool, but it has 3 spindles that are driven by 5 Hp 3 phase motors. I bought a 10 HP rotary phase converter to power this and future 3 phase machines. I put the phase converter in my closet with my compressor and ran the 3 phase power feed out with a 50amp single phase 220V breaker feeding it. After doing the final terminations I powered the phase converter. The idler came up and I was seeing power at the 3 phase outlet. A quick flip of the switches on the shaper and around the spindles went. Wew. :eusa_clap The only hitch was the spindles were going the wrong way, but a quick flip of two of the legs fixed that and I was off. The phase converter has plenty to run all three motors at the same time as long as I don't try to start them all at the same exact moment. An hour of DC work and I'll be back to woodworking. :icon_thum :icon_thum
Pics to come. Too tired tonight.
John
Most of you know about this tool, but it has 3 spindles that are driven by 5 Hp 3 phase motors. I bought a 10 HP rotary phase converter to power this and future 3 phase machines. I put the phase converter in my closet with my compressor and ran the 3 phase power feed out with a 50amp single phase 220V breaker feeding it. After doing the final terminations I powered the phase converter. The idler came up and I was seeing power at the 3 phase outlet. A quick flip of the switches on the shaper and around the spindles went. Wew. :eusa_clap The only hitch was the spindles were going the wrong way, but a quick flip of two of the legs fixed that and I was off. The phase converter has plenty to run all three motors at the same time as long as I don't try to start them all at the same exact moment. An hour of DC work and I'll be back to woodworking. :icon_thum :icon_thum
Pics to come. Too tired tonight.
John