daveduff
03-12-2005, 07:05 PM
Hiya all, been reading your threads for awhile now, as I'm trying to learn as much as possible as soon as possible. Here's my situation:
A buddy of mine has a (prt96alpha?), 5'x10', with a columbo 3hp spindle. He lost the lease on his shop and is in a transisiton period till he finds a new one he's happy with. I agreed to let him store the shopbot in my garage, and we are in the process of investigating wiring options. I had a licensed electrition come in to give me a bid on upgrading my homes main breaker box to enable us to bring in power to a new subpanel in the garage. So far not a problem. But suddenly the phase issue came up. His 3hp columbo is 3 phase according to the label on the spindle. I only have single phase power at home. Does this bring the installation to a screeching halt without a 1 phase to 3 phase converter? I read in one thread that the VFD converted single or 3 phase into dc to run the spindle? is this correct?.... Or are the only options getting a converter, or a single phase spindle?..... I hope this is a clear question, any and all help will be greatly appreciated. Any other questions or clarifications just ask and I will supply all the info I can. Thanks again all of you...
A buddy of mine has a (prt96alpha?), 5'x10', with a columbo 3hp spindle. He lost the lease on his shop and is in a transisiton period till he finds a new one he's happy with. I agreed to let him store the shopbot in my garage, and we are in the process of investigating wiring options. I had a licensed electrition come in to give me a bid on upgrading my homes main breaker box to enable us to bring in power to a new subpanel in the garage. So far not a problem. But suddenly the phase issue came up. His 3hp columbo is 3 phase according to the label on the spindle. I only have single phase power at home. Does this bring the installation to a screeching halt without a 1 phase to 3 phase converter? I read in one thread that the VFD converted single or 3 phase into dc to run the spindle? is this correct?.... Or are the only options getting a converter, or a single phase spindle?..... I hope this is a clear question, any and all help will be greatly appreciated. Any other questions or clarifications just ask and I will supply all the info I can. Thanks again all of you...