I'd be very surprised if the motor was 480 volts only.
They are almost always at least dual voltage.
To me, the big things to look for are, not much abuse, very little
mechanical slop in anything, good motors,
working drives if possible or if not, then reasonably priced drives
available, a worka
Your math is way off. A three phase motor uses about 1.75 amps per HP at
480v. So it is a 3 HP machine.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Peter Blodow wrote:
> Charles, from my (German) point of view, the power at 480 Volt three
> phase times 5 Amperes (each) times sqrt. of 3 makes some 15 HP. T
I resold something very similar. It is a great retrofit candidate. I also
have some parts for those machines. It will not be a fast machine, just
like my Interact is not a fast machine, but it is a great machine and a
very nice retrofit experience, DC servos, etc.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:45 PM,
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:45:56 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm wondering if this mill would make a good retrofit candidate for
>LinuxCNC:
>
>http://kansascity.craigslist.org/tls/4397110377.html
>
>The price seems right for a CNC capable machine, I'm just wondering if
>anyone knows of "gotchas" for this parti
On 03/30/2014 08:53 AM, Peter Blodow wrote:
> Charles, from my (German) point of view, the power at 480 Volt three
> phase times 5 Amperes (each) times sqrt. of 3 makes some 15 HP. That's
> what the machine label wold mean to me at the power supply standards in
> our house. look at the power label
Charles, from my (German) point of view, the power at 480 Volt three
phase times 5 Amperes (each) times sqrt. of 3 makes some 15 HP. That's
what the machine label wold mean to me at the power supply standards in
our house. look at the power label right at the spindle motors body.
Peter
Am 30
On 03/29/2014 07:45 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> I'm wondering if this mill would make a good retrofit candidate for
> LinuxCNC:
>
> http://kansascity.craigslist.org/tls/4397110377.html
>
> The price seems right for a CNC capable machine, I'm just wondering if
> anyone knows of "gotchas" for t
> On 30 Mar 2014, at 00:45, Charles Steinkuehler
> wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if this mill would make a good retrofit candidate for
> LinuxCNC:
I would have thought so.
3hp sounds like plenty to me. My 2hp mill never slows down even with the big
cutters.
I'm wondering if this mill would make a good retrofit candidate for
LinuxCNC:
http://kansascity.craigslist.org/tls/4397110377.html
The price seems right for a CNC capable machine, I'm just wondering if
anyone knows of "gotchas" for this particular brand or model.
It doesn't seem like a great pro
