VFD - You like?

hangemhigh

hangemhigh

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I am in the process of setting up a new shop in my garage after the floods in May. No 3ph at the house so I have decided to use VFD's instead of a noisy phase converter. Can anyone share their experiences with the variable frequency drive? I will be operating 2 lathes and a Bridgeport with the VFD's, one for each machine. The rest of my equipment is single phase 220.
 
hangemhigh said:
Dave is this because the loss of torque when using a VFD?
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I have a VFD on 2 lathes, a 13 X 36 Enco and a 12 X 40 Jet and I couldn't bare to be without either of them. There are VFD drives on e-bay that are very reasonable in price and work well. My first one was an Allen Bradly And my second I don't even remember it's brand name but it was only around a 100.00 or so and works just as well as the A/B. I do use mine for threading and haven't had any problems so far. I just use the back gear and turn my rpms down low and can get as slow as 15 rpm and still have plenty of torque. I can go much slower but then the torque does become a problem.

Dick
 
rhncue said:
I have a VFD on 2 lathes, a 13 X 36 Enco and a 12 X 40 Jet and I couldn't bare to be without either of them. There are VFD drives on e-bay that are very reasonable in price and work well. My first one was an Allen Bradly And my second I don't even remember it's brand name but it was only around a 100.00 or so and works just as well as the A/B. I do use mine for threading and haven't had any problems so far. I just use the back gear and turn my rpms down low and can get as slow as 15 rpm and still have plenty of torque. I can go much slower but then the torque does become a problem.

Dick
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Thanks for the info Dick. Care to give me the skinny on those $100 VFD's? I paid twice that for mine.
 
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