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Since I thought my mill motor blew up last week (drum switch fried, fuzed contacts of the start winding, blew capacitor. Since replaced cap and drum switch, all's well)
I had been pondering changing to 3ph/VFD, as a replacement, and as to gain more motor control.
My friend has an old barn with LOTS of stuff... In my rummaging I found a 1hp 3ph motor, 220v
If I were to rig it up on the mill with a VFD, does anyone really think I'd miss the 2hp I have now? I can honestly say I've never bogged the mill down, or taken a cut deep enough to make it sweat... The biggest mill I have is a 2" 3 flute face mill and i really can't see me getting anything bigger. Not for my hobby use... Bigger tooling like that would wind up scaring my pants off...
If I went VFD for speed control, I'd leave the pulleys I have. Like I did in my lathe when I converted it to DC. I can keep the same speeds range I have but with varying torque by changing the belts. I could achieve similar with the mill.
Thoughts?
I had been pondering changing to 3ph/VFD, as a replacement, and as to gain more motor control.
My friend has an old barn with LOTS of stuff... In my rummaging I found a 1hp 3ph motor, 220v
If I were to rig it up on the mill with a VFD, does anyone really think I'd miss the 2hp I have now? I can honestly say I've never bogged the mill down, or taken a cut deep enough to make it sweat... The biggest mill I have is a 2" 3 flute face mill and i really can't see me getting anything bigger. Not for my hobby use... Bigger tooling like that would wind up scaring my pants off...
If I went VFD for speed control, I'd leave the pulleys I have. Like I did in my lathe when I converted it to DC. I can keep the same speeds range I have but with varying torque by changing the belts. I could achieve similar with the mill.
Thoughts?