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Running a 20 HP Compressor with phase converter.
I had a hard time with something and I do not fully understand why it
did not work. The story was that I was trying to test a 20 HP compressor that is in my truck. My phase converter has two idlers with the total horsepower of 17.5. I plugged in this compressor into a running phase converter, using approximately 25 feet of 12 gauge cable. The motor would spin with difficulty, at about 60 RPM. (one rev per second). Then I tried two things. 1) I applied compressed air from my home compressor, to the unloaders of this compressor. 2) I ran my own compressor, and disabled its unloaders, so that my compressor would run unloaded. My hope was that after subtracting 2 or so HP needed to run the compressor unloaded, I would still add perhaps 8 HP to my phase converter, bumping the total HP to 35 or so HP. Despite doing both of the above things, I could not spin up the 20 HP Quincy beying 1-2 revolutions per second. NOTE: ** The motor's nameplate data has been erased. ** Another hypothesis that I have, is that the 30 feet of 12 gauge cable is just not enough. According to some web based calculator, voltage drop from conducting 100 amps, would amount to 9.6 volts. This does not seem like much to me, given that my voltage is 245 volts, give or take. So, then, what is it that I am missing? -- Due to extreme spam originating from Google Groups, and their inattention to spammers, I and many others block all articles originating from Google Groups. If you want your postings to be seen by more readers you will need to find a different means of posting on Usenet. http://improve-usenet.org/ |
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