Re: 3-phase current

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• Subject: Re: 3-phase current
• From: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 23:40:16 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Original Poster: Steve Roys <sroys-at-umaryland.edu>
> 
> On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Tesla List wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ed, all:
> >
> > I believe that some of these designs include an idler motor, as suggested
> > in another post, to actually generate a third phase. This method produces
> > more power than simply running a three phase motor on 1 phase, although
> > probably not as much as true three phase power. The available power
depends
> > on the size of the idler.
> >
> > - Mike
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, and this might have already been posted, but
> can't you just use a single-phase motor to run a three-phase motor
> backwards as a generator?
> 
> Steve.

	Of course.  Or almost of course.  In  a sense the three phase-motor
running on single phase and supplying a load is functioning as motor and
generator in a single machine.  

Ed

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