Re: phase conversion

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Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com> 

why not just have a large electric or gas motor run a homemade 3 phase
alternator? getting the rpm's right for 60 hz might be a bit tricky, but
it'd work even if ineffecient.

---eric
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Subject: RE: phase conversion


 > Original poster: "David Thomson" <dave-at-volantis-dot-org>
 >
 > Hi Matt,
 >
 > I've been talking to experts concerning three-phase power for some time.
 > The only way to get true three-phase power is to either buy it from the
 > utility company (and learn to continually balance the lines) or generate
it
 > yourself with a true three-phase generator.
 >
 > Phase converters allow you to run a three-phase motor using two of the
three
 > phases.  In all cases, you end up with a silent leg (some call it a
phantom
 > leg, it's all the same).  If all you want to do is run a three-phase
motor,
 > that's fine, a phase converter will work.
 >
 > I've been wanting to generate true three-phase power so I could produce a
 > rotating magnetic field from a stator without a rotor.  I still haven't
 > succeeded because I can't afford the expensive three-phase power from the
 > utility company or the expensive three-phase generators.
 >
 > Well, I actually purchased three working 100kV three-phase generators from
 > the military for $25 at a military auction.  But the generators were so
huge
 > I needed a flat bed semi to haul them and a pretty hefty forklift to move
 > them.  I ended up abandoning them.
 >
 > Dave
 >
 >  > -----Original Message-----
 >  > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 >  > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:18 PM
 >  > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >  > Subject: phase conversion
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > Original poster: Matt <fox-at-woozle-dot-org>
 >  >
 >  > I seem to remember a post some time about being able to get three pahse
 >  > power from single phase power by wiring up 3 or 4 transformers in some
 >  > fashion. I have looked high and low but can not seem to find it. maybe
i'm
 >  > just out of my mind? can someone please point me in the correct
direction?
 >  >
 >  > -matt
 >  >
 >
 >
 >