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When I bought the mill a couple or so months ago it came with a phase converter. The seller said he just used the converter in factory setting, something I never bothered to read in the manual on what that is. Basically been running it with what he had in it.
Have to admit have not done a lot of work with the mill as my learning effort has been on the lathe. I do not know if it is a problem, but the max frequency I can run on the converter is 37 HZ. If I were to go any higher, it faults out and had to crank down and reset. The other thing I noticed even at the 37 HZ setting when I turn on the spindle it spools up real slow.
Questions:
Is that normal performance in that combination?
Or should I RTFI and figure out how to set this box up?
If I were to snag a 2-3 HP VFD, how would you operate the speed control, still use the crank or leave the crank at some setting and control the speed range with the VFD?
TIA
Have to admit have not done a lot of work with the mill as my learning effort has been on the lathe. I do not know if it is a problem, but the max frequency I can run on the converter is 37 HZ. If I were to go any higher, it faults out and had to crank down and reset. The other thing I noticed even at the 37 HZ setting when I turn on the spindle it spools up real slow.
Questions:
Is that normal performance in that combination?
Or should I RTFI and figure out how to set this box up?
If I were to snag a 2-3 HP VFD, how would you operate the speed control, still use the crank or leave the crank at some setting and control the speed range with the VFD?
TIA