slufkin
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jun 19, 2008
- Location
- Upstate NY
I am soon to take possesion of a nice little Bridgeport, and I am in the market for a small lathe.
I am still up in the air as to how I want to handle my three phase conversion.
I have an old 5hp 3PH motor and a small 3PH Panel Box laying around. I was originally thinking of buying a static converter to start the 5hp motor to make it into a rotary converter, feeding the panel, then run outlets from there.
However the more I read from you guys, the more I think I might want to just put VFD's on each machine and plug them into a 220VAC outlet.
Then there is always the old static converter on each machine, but I always hated them on a mill because of the pause you have to have to reverse the motor when power tapping.
I am still up in the air as to how I want to handle my three phase conversion.
I have an old 5hp 3PH motor and a small 3PH Panel Box laying around. I was originally thinking of buying a static converter to start the 5hp motor to make it into a rotary converter, feeding the panel, then run outlets from there.
However the more I read from you guys, the more I think I might want to just put VFD's on each machine and plug them into a 220VAC outlet.
Then there is always the old static converter on each machine, but I always hated them on a mill because of the pause you have to have to reverse the motor when power tapping.