"Ignoramus24782" wrote in message
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On 2008-05-18, Jon Elson wrote:
Ignoramus8671 wrote:

snip -

Yep. That was my suspicion too. I asked this question. The guy said
that according to the seller, "the lathe was wired for 208v".

In my experience, 440v motors just flat out do not run on 220, but the
lathe ran OK.



this sounds suspiciously like a Y versus Delta problem - that might be worth
checking out


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