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Louis Ohland Louis Ohland is offline
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Default Conundrum? Decent benchtop surface grinder

Like this?

TECO FM50 AC Drive, 1 HP, 115V 1 PH Input, 230V 3 PH Output, 4.2FLA, IP20

http://www.factorymation.com/s.nl/it.A/id.193/.f

Pete C. wrote:
Louis Ohland wrote:
Nice little Clausing, but 240/3PH. Oh, my, my, my.


So figure another $200 for a VFD to power it. You do not want to
consider replacing the three phase motor with a single phase one as it's
been reported that they don't run as smoothly as three phase and will
create defects in the ground finish.