Jared
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2006
- Location
- Portland, OR
Howdy,
I purchased a CP-200 a couple days ago with a nice looking old hobart feeder for a reasonable price. The gentleman i bought it from gave me the impression he didnt know much about electricity and had bought the unit cheap with the intention of running it on single phase with no conversion or adaptation. When i arrived to pickup the unit i inquired more about this and he said he bought it used from a guy who had tried to convert it but it never worked and he sold it. I asked about the state of the wiring and was assured he hadnt opened the unit so everything should be factory inside. He had no 3 phase power to test and we arrived on a price taking into consideration the fact that i couldnt test it.
Mistake#1, not pulling side panels and investigating right there
Mistake #2 not noticing screws from said side panel partially missing
Opened her up today and found this
Lots of new wires added to the front terminal jumpers and lots of cut wires on the back in addition to the terminal numbering called out in the haas-kamp conversion procedure.
So, best i can tell someone did the conversion (most likely improperly or incompletely) and did all this to revert back to original wiring. The first issue i spotted is a broken solid wire off the top transformer, could have been the issue this whole time.
I'm unsure where to start, do i get a listing of what the factory wiring should be and double check whats there now? Do i pull everything off the terminal block and start fresh?
I have wire and 2 55/5mfd caps will be here buy the end of the week. Wasnt expecting such a mess when i went to go clean things out to start today.
Thanks for any help. Thanks to Dave for writing this quide and helping us all get through it!
I purchased a CP-200 a couple days ago with a nice looking old hobart feeder for a reasonable price. The gentleman i bought it from gave me the impression he didnt know much about electricity and had bought the unit cheap with the intention of running it on single phase with no conversion or adaptation. When i arrived to pickup the unit i inquired more about this and he said he bought it used from a guy who had tried to convert it but it never worked and he sold it. I asked about the state of the wiring and was assured he hadnt opened the unit so everything should be factory inside. He had no 3 phase power to test and we arrived on a price taking into consideration the fact that i couldnt test it.
Mistake#1, not pulling side panels and investigating right there
Mistake #2 not noticing screws from said side panel partially missing
Opened her up today and found this
Lots of new wires added to the front terminal jumpers and lots of cut wires on the back in addition to the terminal numbering called out in the haas-kamp conversion procedure.
So, best i can tell someone did the conversion (most likely improperly or incompletely) and did all this to revert back to original wiring. The first issue i spotted is a broken solid wire off the top transformer, could have been the issue this whole time.
I'm unsure where to start, do i get a listing of what the factory wiring should be and double check whats there now? Do i pull everything off the terminal block and start fresh?
I have wire and 2 55/5mfd caps will be here buy the end of the week. Wasnt expecting such a mess when i went to go clean things out to start today.
Thanks for any help. Thanks to Dave for writing this quide and helping us all get through it!