On Sunday, April 03, 2011 04:58:59 PM Dave did opine: > It's won't draw anything close to 35 amps and a lot of the currrent it > draws will be reactive power (KVARS) which your power meter does not > sense (at least it should not). > > 15 hp is pretty big though, but if the price is right, I'd try it out. > The downside is that you will need a lot of caps to spin that baby up. > :-) Well, its a spare for the GE TF3a transmitters heat exchanger, shut down 2 years ago now. There is also a couple of spares for the water pump, which are 10's IIRC. And I am good at twisting arms. ;-) > > Dave > > On 4/3/2011 10:52 AM, gene heskett wrote: > > On Sunday, April 03, 2011 10:46:26 AM John Thornton did opine: > >> John, > >> > >> I think it is finally done... sorry for the delay. > >> > >> http://gnipsel.com/shop/rpc/rpc.xhtml > >> > >> John > > > > How efficient would you say this is John? I can lay my hands on a 15 > > hp 3 phase motor for the base iron. > > > > And how big a 3 phase motor could be operated from it? > > > > I would have a hard time justifying an idling current draw of 35 amps > > a leg from the 240 to run a 3 horse motor on the machine. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix > Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; > WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and > publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
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