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DavidA:
Andrew,
I notice that Transwave don't appear to mention the output voltage on their site.
Am I right to assume that the rotary converters are all 415 volt ?
Dave
awemawson:
Both the rotary ones I've owned were. The only choice usually is whether they give a neutral or not. I would recommend getting one with a neutral as it is more versatile than without.
They are a very good company to deal with, and good with phone support. I'll never forget my first static Transwave - had it for several years without trouble, then it fell off it's shelf breaking the internal voltage sensing relay. I rang them up to order a new one, and they insisted on sending me one free gratis, despite me protesting that it was entirely my own fault that it had broken and was years out of warranty.
Arbalist:
If the motor connections will allow it you may be able to run it off 240V single phase. I ran my three phase milling machine from a single phase supply for several years. You only get 80% of rated power but I never noticed the difference on my mill. Just a thought. Cost me the princely sum of £11 I think for the required capacitor. It sure didn't hinder me selling the mill on either when I moved house. :thumbup:
Jonny:
The Transwave are about same price as digital inverters, got both.
I don't use the Transwave due to the noise it generates under load and also not being able to maintain spindle speed with minimal cut, think its 5.5hp running 3hp motor. You will regret it.
Op said not an option for 220v he wants plug and play, that leaves rotary which suffer from spindle slowing, rotary convertor or digital inverter all plug and play.
awemawson:
I never noticed spindle slowing on my Transwave rotaries.
1st one I had was about 3kW off a standard 13 plug and ran my Bridgeport and my two Colchester Students (Flat head and a round head). Obviously being single handed in the workshop it was rare all worked at the same time, but it did happen ocassionally.
2nd one was a 15kW big beast, but it ran a chiller for my 100kW induction furnace, which was a fixed load - I did manage to blow the 60 amp company fuse with it though :ddb: A cup of tea for the EDF bloke who replaced it got it upgraded to 100 amps !
When I ran my Moog Hydrapoint 1000 I made two vast static convertors, one for it's 5 kW compressor, and another for the main machine which had a very big hydraulic pump in it.
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