On 7 January 2016 at 22:10, John Kasunich <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is rarely ever done in industry because industry doesn't want > to pay for the extra iron, copper, silicon, and capacitors needed > to build a 10HP motor and VFD when they're only going to get > 2HP from the shaft. But for a one-off where you find the motor > and/or VFD cheap on eBay or a scrap-heap, it can work very well. I am sure you are right, but that wasn't my point. 240V single-phase VFDs largely top-out at 3HP. https://www.inverterdrive.com/group/AC-Inverter-Drives-230V/?filter=Input%7c230Vac+1ph Does actually list some, I admit. But I am fairly sure that there weren't any over 2.2kW last time I looked a couple of years ago. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
