Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-23 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/22/20 2:11 PM, Joe Monk wrote: Well its pretty simple. Each phase has a 0 degree point for the rise and fall of the sine wave. You wire each phase to its corresponding 60 degree out connection on the relay coil. So, if the phases dont line up, you dont get a strong enough magnetic field

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-23 Thread Stefan Skoglund
mån 2020-06-22 klockan 14:05 -0600 skrev Grant Taylor: > On 6/22/20 1:09 PM, William Donzelli wrote: > > Also, if I could post an image to this list, I would show what a > > standard IBM phase rotation sensor looks like. I have a box of > > them. > > > > They are basically just relays with three

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
alf of William Donzelli [wdonze...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 3:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-) > Yes its true, but before you let a disk spin backwards, you checked the > fans in the logic gate, they were 3 ph too.

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread Doug
718.921.2620 (O) 917.572.7364 (C) d...@bkassociates.net -- Original Message -- From: "William Donzelli" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 22-Jun-20 15:09:50 Subject: Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-) Yes its true, but before you let a disk spin back

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread Joe Monk
Well its pretty simple. Each phase has a 0 degree point for the rise and fall of the sine wave. You wire each phase to its corresponding 60 degree out connection on the relay coil. So, if the phases dont line up, you dont get a strong enough magnetic field to close the relay. Joe On Mon, Jun 22,

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/22/20 1:09 PM, William Donzelli wrote: Also, if I could post an image to this list, I would show what a standard IBM phase rotation sensor looks like. I have a box of them. They are basically just relays with three windings on the core, and unless the phases are hooked up properly, they

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread William Donzelli
> Yes its true, but before you let a disk spin backwards, you checked the > fans in the logic gate, they were 3 ph too. Depending on how they spun > (clockwise or counterclockwise), you had the phases corrected. I never > spun up a drive that went backward using that technique. > And if it was say

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread William Donzelli
> DC rules AC rules are harder, because of the extra Z. -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
DC rules On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 04:33 Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:30:01 +, Doug wrote: > > >Yes its true, but before you let a disk spin backwards, you checked the > >fans in the logic gate, they were 3 ph too. Depending on

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:30:01 +, Doug wrote: >Yes its true, but before you let a disk spin backwards, you checked the >fans in the logic gate, they were 3 ph too. Depending on how they spun >(clockwise or counterclockwise), you had the phases corrected. I never >spun up a drive that went

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread Edward Finnell
There was a SHARE presentation early 80's  by the 'Fat Boys' from Quantico that tried to plug a Siemens 3-phase printer into a 4361. I don't know/remember what they did wrong but they had load of pictures of blown out T05 cans from the CPU. In a message dated 6/22/2020 11:05:28 AM Central

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread Doug
.ua.edu Sent: 22-Jun-20 12:03:59 Subject: Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-) On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:34:37 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: I have a light - probably trivia by now - question for those of you who have been around a while. My earliest experience with IBM disk was 338

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread Steve Smith
fwiw, a 3-phase motor rotates with the phase order it gets. As mentioned, the wrong direction would presumably be a very bad thing for disk drives, so they don't let it happen. Anyone else's guess on the rest of the electronics. sas On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:01 PM William Donzelli wrote: >

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:34:37 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: > >I have a light - probably trivia by now - question for those of you who have >been around a while. My earliest experience with IBM disk was 3380s. They >ran 3 phase power, and if the phases weren't cabled correctly, the machine

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread William Donzelli
All three phase IBM stuff from that era I have seen have phase rotation sensors, and will simply not go through the proper power sequence unless everything is fine. -- Will On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:35 AM Pommier, Rex wrote: > > Hi group, > > I have a light - probably trivia by now - question

3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi group, I have a light - probably trivia by now - question for those of you who have been around a while. My earliest experience with IBM disk was 3380s. They ran 3 phase power, and if the phases weren't cabled correctly, the machine wouldn't power up. I seem to recall hearing stories of