"Ignoramus6689" wrote in message
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it needs 80 amps at 250 V DC to run at rated load. Probably much
less
without load, except at startup.

If you have a suitably rated rectifier, and a good electrical
subpanel, you can rectify your 220V AC.

If your motor is a permanent magnet design, it can function as a
generator. You can try spinning the shaft with anything and
measuring
voltage across leads. If it spins and produces voltage, it is
probably
good.

There are much better experts than me, so let's see what they say.

i

Drives for DC motors of this size typically use a 3 phase SCR bridge,
but motor-generator sets (Ward Leonard system) were quite popular
years ago...