Well actually, with a bit of experimenting, you can use a 3 phase
mixer on single phase pretty easily. You find the "wild" leg, then
put it on a momentary on pushbutton switch, hooked to one leg of the
240V. single phase (120V). Then you hook the other two legs through
the normal (on off) switch to the other two legs of the three phase.
Done.
TO start, you turn the switch on and press the momentary switch until
the beast gets up to speed, then release the momentary switch. Its
pretty cool once you get used to it. I set up a M802 (80 Qt. hobart
that way for a bakery one time.
Works for any 3 phase motor you manually start. Helps a lot if
whoever wired the building has the legs in the right position in all
the junction boxes. The "wild" leg should be in the middle.
Unfortunately many "licensed" electricians don't know/don't do it
this way.
Speaking of 3 phase, has anyone considered (ab)using a VFD as a
solid state phase converter?
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On Sep 9, 2011, at 17:56, Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have both, and I have had problems with neither. The K45 I have
with the twister is a hobart made mixer. The K5 is a early
whirlypoo model.
Neither are really big enough for serious breadmaking.
I have a 20 qt hobart that does pretty well for small batches of
bread. (Of course that is another order of magnitude of price.)
I'd really like a 140 qt hobart if I had space and 3 phase power
(and a use for that much dough). It will easily mix as little as 5
lb of bread dough. It will also make over 100 lb of dough.
Actually an M802 is kind of a happy medium.
I have one where the bowl has a screw/twist mount on the bottom.
That tended to pull out when mixing dough, so I beefed up the
threads on the bowl by brazing on some additional metal. That
fixed it, but if I were to get another I'd get the one where the
bowl hangs on pins on either side, that looks a lot stronger to me.
Allan
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