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Tom Veatch[_2_] Tom Veatch[_2_] is offline
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Default Question on routers and router tables


Jessem offers a Milwaukee router
without any type of base that's intended only for table mounting.


From the blurb about the router motor on Jessem's web site:

"15 AMP, 3-1/2 MAX HP "

Never happen!!

It's either a 3-1/2 HP motor or it's a 15 amp motor, but running on a
120v circuit it's for durn sure not both. 3.5hp on 120v requires a
minimum of 22amps and that assumes a unity power factor and 100%
electromechanical efficiency. It's far more likely that the router
motor develops something closer to 1.5HP.

Jessem and/or Milwaukee is not alone in grossly over inflating the HP
in their advertising literature.

Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS
USA