Shop Single Phase to 3 phase converter

[burnrider]

Anyone using one of these?

A local machinist was faced with 150K to bring in 3-phase. He turned to this 6-7K option for running his machine shop in a rural area. Checking out his shop, there were two CNC's running, and he had smaller work to finish on his mill or lathe. He said there are only a couple brands, both US built & sold.

 

[Old Iron]

Are you referring to a RPC?

Paul

 

[burnrider]

Haven't got a clue.

RPC- Is that a rotary Phase converter? If so, I thought they were dedicated to a single use/ machine.

I think he said it was a digital based whole shop unit.

 

[8ntsane]

Phase Perfect ?

 

[burnrider]

Could be Phase Perfect or Phase-a-matic.

I found info on the cnczone site. Machinists claim to have run whole shops for 15 plus years.

Tx

 

[Old Iron]

My machines are all manual and I can run them all at the same time on one RPC. The only thing is I can't watch them all at one time.

I have run the vertical mill and the S.B. Lathe at the same time, You can set the stops on the mill so it will.

Paul