Ned Kelly lives? [smilebigeye] A nice cammo powdercoat would do. Left shiny the cops would have a nice easy target.[biggrin]
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Ned Kelly lives? [smilebigeye] A nice cammo powdercoat would do. Left shiny the cops would have a nice easy target.[biggrin]
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I hung one of these Kincrome Wall clocks that looks like a circular saw blade in the garage.
The upside is that you will have a spare blade when yours gets blunt.[biggrin]
That'll make time fly.
Gotta hand it to you.[smilebigeye]
Decided it was time to sort my 3 phase power to my garage, but after thinking about it, realised I may well be moving to the farm at some point and 3 phase will be impossible there, so bought an 11KW Rotary Phase converter to run my lathe and (soon to arrive) new mill instead - won't be installed for a bit yet, but I have my name on a nice Bridgeport Turret Mill now for some reason, current owner is fine on leaving it where it is until I figure out where to put it. Phase converter works like a charm, but the sucker needed a 50 amp single phase supply running to it (Not that I will likely push it hard enough to need that) - lucky I'm a Sparky. [biggrin]
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Originally Posted by Homestar
[QUOTE=Homestar;2961194]Decided it was time to sort my 3 phase power to my garage, but after thinking about it, realised I may well be moving to the farm at some point and 3 phase will be impossible there, so bought an 11KW Rotary Phase converter to run my lathe and (soon to arrive) new mill instead - won't be installed for a bit yet, but I have my name on a nice Bridgeport Turret Mill now for some reason, current owner is fine on leaving it where it is until I figure out where to put it. Phase converter works like a charm, but the sucker needed a 50 amp single phase supply running to it (Not that I will likely push it hard enough to need that) - lucky I'm a Sparky. [biggrin][/QUO
Gav, I wish you'd stop buggering around with things that don't matter & get that railway thingy moving again.
We'se all ears & eyes out here.
[smilebigeye]
I didn't think we could draw that much into one house from a single phase :) I think we only have 40amps into our house from memory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homestar
What sort of $$$ do phase converters run. I'm sort of surprised you didn't find an electronic phase converter rather than rotary (so you don't have to run the extra motor that is inside the phase converter). A few years ago I used to run a 3phase bench grinder using a second delta wired motor as a phase converter ..... dodgy or what .... the motors grumble and don't provide full power either.
seeya,
Shane L.
We have a 6 KW for one of the lathes and the universal mill. Works great but think even your 11 may struggle with the Macson[bighmmm]Quote:
Originally Posted by Homestar
Noel
I may answer to Den, but I'm not femme.
Rotary converters are actually much better for a variety of reasons IMO over electronic. The waveform is much cleaner, free of electrical noise and voltage stability for heavy load starting in unmatched as you have a large rotating mass in the pilot motor. Efficiency of them is around 97% so not much wasted power either. There’s a lot more to them than a motor and some wiring. Also, getting something in the 11KW range in electronic that is of decent quality is around the same price, I would have concerns around a $500 Bangood unit being up to the task and reliable long term (or even short term actually). Rotary converters are also very reliable and last decades. Space wise, the motor sits under the converter so doesn’t really take up any extra space and is IP rated so I could even chuck it outside if I was bothered enough. [emoji16]Quote:
Originally Posted by DoubleChevron
Dollar wise the 11KW unit runs to over $8K new, so a substantial investment. I got this one second hand - fully recoed by the manufacturer with full warranty for $6K. Still not cheap but around the same price as the 3 phase all in by the timeI would have been done and i couldn’t have taken that with me and it adds no or little value to the house.
Current to your house is limited by the cable size - based on my cable size, run and installation conditions make it top out around 50 amps - that’s the size of the main switch I’ve stuck in the main board, so everything I have. Remember that it will only pull that load when going full tilt - which it is very doubtful. Maybe if I had the spa and AC on and dug in the lathe and the mill together I could trip the breaker, so not an issue in reality.
