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Help with motor from old grain mill
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<blockquote data-quote="David R Connell" data-source="post: 523632" data-attributes="member: 33338"><p>To me, this looks like a 3Phase isolator and starter the MEM starter number is a 3PH starter I'm from the 60s. Also, the Newman motor looks to me to be a 3PH motor that can run in star or delta. How this motor ever ran without a capacitor I do not want to guess or imagine running a 3PH motor on a single PH supply (with a capacitor) the power is reduced to 2/3rd of its 3PH capacity. You mentioned that the motor could be 5HP or a 7.5HP if this motor ever ran as a single PH motor I'm guessing the output required to run the mill must have been quite low because of the drop in output power something you will have to find out. As someone has already asked is there 3PH in the building if so, that is the road you need to go down in my humble opinion. Doing that, you need to match the motor to load requirements which you will have to work out. I can understand why the son has never seen it running.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="David R Connell, post: 523632, member: 33338"] To me, this looks like a 3Phase isolator and starter the MEM starter number is a 3PH starter I'm from the 60s. Also, the Newman motor looks to me to be a 3PH motor that can run in star or delta. How this motor ever ran without a capacitor I do not want to guess or imagine running a 3PH motor on a single PH supply (with a capacitor) the power is reduced to 2/3rd of its 3PH capacity. You mentioned that the motor could be 5HP or a 7.5HP if this motor ever ran as a single PH motor I'm guessing the output required to run the mill must have been quite low because of the drop in output power something you will have to find out. As someone has already asked is there 3PH in the building if so, that is the road you need to go down in my humble opinion. Doing that, you need to match the motor to load requirements which you will have to work out. I can understand why the son has never seen it running. [/QUOTE]
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