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Motor question- VFD or single phase


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I used a Schneider Electric VFD to start an Anyang 88.  IIRC it was set to start the hammer over a time of about 6-10 seconds.  The only problem was getting the VFD (that model anyway) programmed, finally got a master industrial electrician to do it, the manual was NOT intuitive!  Once set up it worked fine.  Mostly I ran it at the rated speed but sometimes ran it a bit slower just to see if I liked the slower speed.  Never did run it faster but could have.  Sold the hammer with the VFD.

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  • 2 years later...

Just returning to this in case it may be of benefit to someone else; In the end I just put a new motor in, 3 hp single phase, works a treat on this size hammer, and tbh the cost of a decent VFD (ie one that doesn't go BANG! after 3 months in a dusty environment like a forge) would have been 2 or 3 times that of a decent motor at least.

Bigger hammers, bigger motors might be a different story.

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