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How to change the single phase motor speed

Hi I am very encouraged by the responses I got for my Siemens VFD question and would like to thank all the responders.

We have a lab model three roll mill which has a motor rated at 750W, single phase, 110V, 60Hz. Our customers can plug it into any wall plug.

Some customers in the past asked for variable speed. What is the best way to achieve the variable speed in this case?

Thanks,

Ken

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Ink Maker
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My first choice would be to replace the motor with a 3 phase version and add a variable speed drive.

It is possible, in principle, to modify a single phase, capacitor run motor (remove the capacitor and bring its winding to the outside) to run variable speed on a 3 phase drive, with the addition of a transformer to derive the capacitor winding's phase. I haven't yet done this.

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John Popelish

If variable can mean slow, medium or fast, there are motors that do this by switching windings. Perhaps replacing the motor with one of these would be good enough.

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MooseFET

We manufacture three roll mills. Our lab model comes with only single phase power supply (750W). Once a while, our customers would ask variable speed. We have variable speed options on other models that use 3-phase power (using Siemens VFD).

Last week we got another order from a customer in UK. Normally we ship our machines to UK with 240V, 50 Hz, 3 Phase motor. To achieve variable speed, we used VFD. It just happens this week they request the power supply to be single phase.

A quick search in Wikipedia shows there is single phase VFD too.

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Thanks,

Ken

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Ink Maker

There are lots of 1 KW, 3 phase VSRs that are powered by single phase input.

For instance:

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John Popelish

Universal motor? That runs on AC/DC and you can vary the speed simply by varying the voltage to it using a cheap DC drive.

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You must be a shill for Sears-Mart and the over hyped Universal motors used in their products.

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