[Milsurplus] multi phase AC power

Joe Foley redmenaced at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 12 12:54:31 EST 2006



--- "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com> wrote:

> I'm not a real expert, but did look into this a
> while back There are a few possibles:
> 
> Capacitor phase converter. These are fairly cheap
> and have a cap phase shifter and Scott connected
> transformer. As I remember it did not make good 3
> phase, but it was OK for motors up to a few HP and
> likely OK for 3 phase power supplies where the input
> is transformer isolated and then rectified. As I
> remember, the lines are not symmetric about neutral,
> so an isolated load is a must. The efficiency is
> pretty good.
+++++++
The best/cheapest way to even out the power is to idle
another motor, that will give some more start-up
potential, too.

Joe

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