Kirk Wallace wrote: > I have had a chance to play with my washing machine motor: > > http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/wash_motor/ > > I hooked up one of my VFD's to it, without much success. I kept getting > thermal alarms. You have to set the Volts/Hz curve on the VFD. If you have some idea of the max frequency and voltage of the motor, you can compute what this should be. If it is a low inductance motor, you may have to put inductors in series with the motor leads.
For instance, my Westwind spindle motors run 80 V at 400 Hz, and need at least a 1 mH inductor on each line. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
