3 phase rotor pictures

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Original poster: "Gary Weaver" <gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Check out the picture of the 3 ph rotor converter that I built.

http://home.earthlink.net/~gary350/phase01.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~gary350/phase02.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~gary350/phase03.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~gary350/phase04.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~gary350/phase05.jpg

Gary Weaver


> [Original Message]
> From: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 1/19/2005 7:48:14 PM
> Subject: RE: 3 phase converting
>
> Original poster: "David Thomson" <dwt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Gary,
>
>  >  > Original poster: "David Thomson" <dwt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  >  >
>  > It's cheaper these days to just buy a factory new rotary
>  > phase  > converter all ready to go.  I just bought one and it
>  > is on the way.
>  >
>  > NOT TRUE.  I just built a friend a 5 hp rotor converter.  The
>  > used 3 ph
>  > motor 5 hp cost me $5.00.   The run cap was $7.00.  The start cap
> was
>  > $10.00.  Metal box $5.00.  Push button switch $2.00.  Total
>  > cost $24.00
>
> You don't have true three phase power.  You can run a three phase
> motor okay, but you can't generate a true rotating magnetic field as
> in Tesla's Egg of Columbus demonstrator.  That is why I bought a true
> three phase power source.  Check your legs and see if one of them is a
> phantom.
>
> Dave
>