You can build a static phase converter for about $10 worth of parts.
Will provide about 70% of the HP of the motor. Do a Google search
on "static phase converter" and you will find a coule of sites that tell you
the capacitor values needed.

-- Tom


"oddjobboy" wrote in message
om...
Anyone had any experience of dropping a new single phase motor into
something like the old 10" Wadkin I've been offered for notalot?
It seems like too good an offer to pass up, but I'm concerned that
there'll be more to the three-phase to single phase conversion than
simply exchanging the motor. I guess there's all the switches etc to
consider as well.

I've done a little research on the Net into phase converters but it
seems a bit like overkill buying an inverter for just the one piece of
kit. And they're not cheap either...