Are your run caps connected to one leg only?

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Speaker To-Dirt wrote:
>> Hi All:
>>
>>    Here's my RPC values hot off the line.
>>
>> Unloaded     Loaded (Manual mill spindle going)
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>   235 V                235 V
>>   269 V                257 V
>>   245 V                238 V
>>
>>   Sorry those old numbers must have been from my RPC build and not the final 
>> numbers after the run time caps were put in. I'm fairly sure that the 257 V 
>> is the co-generated line. I'll have to trace this out.
>>
> OK, now this makes sense, you are running one of your stepper drivers on
> about 12% overvoltage.  Depending on what the transformer taps are set
> to, that may actually be worse than a 12% overvoltage.  The drive can
> probably be set for this voltage, but I am guessing you just left the
> settings where they were.  You may be lucky these fuses were blowing
> leading you to discover the problem before the transistors started to pop.
> This much imbalance is not great for the spindle motor, it can be HELL
> on the electronics.
>
> Jon
>
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