You must be speaking of a three phase delta system. That's the only one you would have a "high" leg on.
As someone who has worked with 3 phase systems most of his life, I would find this to be pretty darned dangerous. Dan Sent from my iPhone On Sep 12, 2011, at 7:54 AM, John Reames <jwrea...@comcast.net> wrote: > I'm not sure that I'd do that with any machine tools. > > -- > John W Reames > jream...@verizon.net > Home: +14106646986 > Mobile: +14437915905 > > On Sep 11, 2011, at 19:51, Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well actually, with a bit of experimenting, you can use a 3 phase mixer on >> single phase pretty easily. You find the "wild" leg, then put it on a >> momentary on pushbutton switch, hooked to one leg of the 240V. single phase >> (120V). Then you hook the other two legs through the normal (on off) switch >> to the other two legs of the three phase. Done. >> >> TO start, you turn the switch on and press the momentary switch until the >> beast gets up to speed, then release the momentary switch. Its pretty cool >> once you get used to it. I set up a M802 (80 Qt. hobart that way for a >> bakery one time. >> >> Works for any 3 phase motor you manually start. Helps a lot if whoever >> wired the building has the legs in the right position in all the junction >> boxes. The "wild" leg should be in the middle. Unfortunately many >> "licensed" electricians don't know/don't do it this way. >> >> >>> Speaking of 3 phase, has anyone considered (ab)using a VFD as a solid state >>> phase converter? >>> >>> -- >>> John W Reames >>> jream...@verizon.net >>> Home: +14106646986 >>> Mobile: +14437915905 >>> >>> On Sep 9, 2011, at 17:56, Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I have both, and I have had problems with neither. The K45 I have with >>>> the twister is a hobart made mixer. The K5 is a early whirlypoo model. >>>> >>>> Neither are really big enough for serious breadmaking. >>>> >>>> I have a 20 qt hobart that does pretty well for small batches of bread. >>>> (Of course that is another order of magnitude of price.) >>>> >>>> I'd really like a 140 qt hobart if I had space and 3 phase power (and a >>>> use for that much dough). It will easily mix as little as 5 lb of bread >>>> dough. It will also make over 100 lb of dough. >>>> >>>> Actually an M802 is kind of a happy medium. >>>> >>>> >>>>> I have one where the bowl has a screw/twist mount on the bottom. That >>>>> tended to pull out when mixing dough, so I beefed up the threads on the >>>>> bowl by brazing on some additional metal. That fixed it, but if I were >>>>> to get another I'd get the one where the bowl hangs on pins on either >>>>> side, that looks a lot stronger to me. >>>>> >>>>> Allan >>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
