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On Feb 23, 1:58*pm, Karl Townsend
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I just finished the complete tear down of my spare Excello machine.
The large castings go outside in the boneyard. All the small parts fit
on two pallets and will go into warehouse storage.

Anyway, I came across a maybe useful part I haven't seen before. its
called an electrocube RG1801 and its mounted on the load side of three
phase contactors. Imagine an equilateral triangle or delta. The points
of the triangle are the three phases. Each leg of the triangle has a
.47 MFD cap and a 220 ohm resistor. Must be some sort of filter.
Whet's the purpose here and should it be used on other three phase
devices?

Karl


Somebody else probably has a better idea, the only thing I can thing
of, given its location, is a snubber to kill at least some of the
spikes when the contacter kicks in and out. I assume the resistor and
capacitor are in series on each leg. Would be nice to have a voltage
spec on the cap and a power rating on the resistor, though.

Stan