Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!wb8foz From: David Lesher Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Medical devices and US 220V electrics Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 03:31:06 +0000 (UTC) Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <1h1pic9ukldcg5tiqrlvj5qr5clapscmvo@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1496201466 18811 166.84.1.5 (31 May 2017 03:31:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 03:31:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:462390 krw@notreal.com writes: >> >>(If I was building myself one it would have a 3-phase motor with >>the VFD back at the garage.) >Why go to all that work? Just use a rotary phase converter (an idling >three phase motor) to get the third phase. Personally, I wouldn't go >near such a snow blower. Gasoline works great. OTOH, I would never go >near a snow blower again (or snow that needed a snow blower). And it always starts in subzero weather, does not need you to keep fresh gas, never needs the oil changed...... A rotary converter is *easier* than a VFD? Not in my book. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close.......................... Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433