US Electrical Question

[sailor]

@Q.E.D

A rotary converter (basically a single-phase motor driving a three-phase generator) would be a whole hell of a lot cheaper. A 200-kW unit could run your whole house using a 200-amp service at capacity and still cost 1/5 as much; and just for wood-working equipment he probably wouldn’t need nearly that much.

A 200 KW unit at 240 V would be using about 1000 Amps, not 200 Amps.

@Q.E.D

Whatever, dude.

Yes, whatever. KW, phases, Volts, … who cares?

[Snnipe_70E]

@t-bonham@scc.net

Most such equipment can be adjusted internally to run from either 3 phase/208V or 1 phase/240V. Usually just a matter of moving the wire connections from one set of terminals to another under the cover of the machine.

I’ve done this on a couple of machines for my brothers’ wood shop – it’s not hard at all, if the machine allows it.

Huh.
Three phase motors start with out any start circuit. a Single phase motor requires something to split the phase.

[DanBlather]

Thanks all. I’m looking at an ice cream freezer case for a store.

[sailor]

@DanBlather

Thanks all. I’m looking at an ice cream freezer case for a store.

So what are the specs?