Your lathe is a great looking machine. What brand and model is it?

Is the motor on the carriage for power cross feed?

WB
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"Ned Simmons" wrote in message
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Hi,

I want to mount a VFD over the headstock of my lathe,
on the wall. This VFD comes with 1/2 knockouts so I
can cable directly to the VFD. My question is this
a safe place to mount the VFD as far as getting
splattered by any oil from the lathe?
VFD is rated @ IP20 (which I believe is about nothing).

Chips getting into it are a much bigger issue than oil, which is mostly
a cosmetic thing, unless by "oil" you mean a water based coolant.


Is there any RF issues that I should be concerned
about that makes mounting the VFD in an enclosure
desirable? I would assume the motor radiates more
noise than VFD would.

The enclosure won't help much with electrical noise. The biggest problem
is noise introduced back into the power line. A line inductor will
usually help if this proves to be a problem, but unless you have
something very sensitive in the area, or an AM radio, you shouldn't be
troubled by noise.


If I can mount it there without an enclosure,
then I don't need to remote the display.

I've got the VFDs on both my lathe and mill mounted out in the open for
just this reason.

http://www.suscom-maine.net/~nsimmons/Feeler05.JPG

On the lathe the VFD is on a stanchion, on the mill, obscured by the
chain hoist in the photo, the VFD is on the top side of the DRO arm.

Ned Simmons




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