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Post Subject: My motor-generator screwed up ideaPosted by Romy the Cat on: 8/3/2010
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Well, what I told you that I am a Moron and you did not believe me then you were fools. Here is a case to point.
This week I deeded to connect my Holrick mechanical motor-generator in use. I did not mean to listen the sound of it. My objectives were to hear the mechanic noise level, for figure out how to connect it and to measure how it performs under different loads. The control board, the motor and the alternator are in wonderful shape and I was ready to plug them and then I realized that I have 3 Phase motor. What a bummer!
Of course I do not have in my residential neighborhood any 3 Phase 220 or 440V. All that I have is a typical American single phase 120-0-120. A call to electric company brought the news that to bring a 3 Phase will cost over $15K. I am obviously will not do it to “try” how my motor-generator sound. Even the use of the phase converter is problematic. The dynamic phase converters for 10HP are huge and noisy machines themselves. The static phase converters – essentially a capacitor are problematic in operation. Perhaps I need to get or make on just to try…. I was thinking that for a price of a static phase converters I might get a single phase motor to spin my generator and juts to replace the existing 3 phase motor.
Again, it all would be fine option if I know that the motor-generator option sound fine. I have absolutely no assurance in it and to spend another $1K just for sake of pure uninsured experiment is a bit bothersome to me. At this point my 1000 pounds motor-generator is sitting on my driveway under a tarp and I do not know what to do with it next.
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