A schematic of your RPC would be helpful. Although a RPC is not a "soft
start" per se; an

My question is about a soft start. Do you or Pete know anything about them?


Adding more idlers didn't work. i can start other 5 hp motors, i.e. the main
spindle. This one has a ton of gears to bring up to speed - too
much start load.

I can handle wiring a VFD. I don't want to tear into the existing control.
In particualar, I don't like the idea of mixing 24 Volt VFD logic on the
same switches that have 110 power for everything else. There's already two
lbs. of junk in a one lb. box. on the control panel. Not room for separate
stuff.



Karl