On Wednesday 28 July 2021 05:33:46 andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 at 00:46, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes, this is an approx. 1984 machine. > > > > That new? I would have guessed 1934, the year I was born. That means > > of making a variable speed motor is ancient tech because its not > > very efficient. > > I think you are maybe thinking of the Ward Leonard set, as used on the > early Monarch 10EE, where an AC motor ran a DC generator which, in > turn ran a DC motor. > That is pretty old-tech, but a DC motor with solid state drive is > hardly old-school at all (only the use of field coils is slightly > outdated at that motor size) > Even with my broadcast history, big motors in the 10 to 25 HP range have always been std 3 phase. I've only read about using the control of speed via the field currant applied, and here I probably need to mention just for the record that loss of field leaves the motor running on residual magnetism in that old steel, and if unloaded, will spin up till it explodes. If loaded, it will trip every breaker back to the fuses on the pole.\
And having some experience with that, I would not bet more than 50 cents that they would actually break the circuit, I've been witness on two occasions when it did not, the ceramic tube containing that fuse had blown so many times that it was metal plated on the inside and failed to open the 7200 volt line, eventually throwing hot pieces into the grass below the pole, causing fires we had to stomp out. We also had to replace 4 750mcm cables from the substation cans on the pole, into and thru the weather head, and on into the distribution bus inside the building. That building, which preceded the NEC by a couple decades, had no entrance breaker, and an open transmitter door by a curious new operator crowbared a 4000 lb plate transformer, and a GE AK-225 breaker feeding that transformer failed to open from old age, which led to the 7.5 amp fuse wires in the poles flag switches to try and open. Thank $DIETY we had a spare transformer so we were only off the air something under 3 days. Just one of the BTDT's over my nearly 40 years in broadcast engineering. > > An AC motor and a vfd should cut the energy bill in half > > compared to that. > > But will have less low-speed torque. Bear in mind that the lathe is > geared for 2500rpm and was probably running at 250rpm (steel part 8" > dia, carbide tooling) I had assumed a change in the gearing to address that. Probablt with stuff from Tractor Supply. At 2500 revs, throwing swarf, I'd want a metal wall between that swarf and me. That stuff would be start a fire hot. > A VFD would be down at 5Hz to achieve that. Which I am doing on my ancient Sheldon. With torque enough to cut a 10 thou chip with a carbide tool. At 100 revs, the vfd is at 16HZ. Bring in the backgear and I can turn the house around. > I think that a DC motor is appropriate here, but probably a PM servo > motor would be better. I won't argue that. Both of my brushed PMDC motors are getting long in the tooth and running fine on the OEM brushes. And don't have a minimum speed other than enough to overcome friction. And the motors FLA torque is available down to zero speed. Temp rise limits with time at low fan speeds will eventually wave a hand at you of course. Generally the job is done by then, but its a consideration not to be ignored. > Is this the motor originally supplied with the lathe? I suspect it is, but Earl would have to answer that. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
