It begins!

[Nelso90]

I've started the restoration of my T-1000, and I'm already in the guts of the chopper. I've redone the 3 Phase rotator motor, and I am currently doing the bearings of the chopper. They're nasty. Anyway, I'll post it all on my facebook page, and I'll see if I can make it viewable to the public.

That and if anyone has a 6/5 rotor out there, PM me! I might just be interested...

I don't think I'm in the market for a blower yet, as we have 3 motorcycles and 4 cars, and not very much room!

[Federal Signal fan]

Good luck with it!

Josh

[jerrylovessirens]

After working on honda v4's, a piece of American simplicity with a T-bolt will be a easy job, eh Mike?

[Nelso90]

Correction, Still working on Honda V4's. My Dad just bought a V65 sabre, and I have still got that carburetor niggle.

Anyway, will a 5/6 chopper sound good in a 1000 stator? I'd imagine it would, but I'm not sure.

[Nelso90]

Hey, just wondering, if anyone here (Derek Thompson possibly?) knows how to wire up a three phase rotator motor, PLEASE let me know.
I am planning on hooking it up to an Allen Bradley Power Flex 4 solid-state motor drive/Phase converter.
It has legs like T1, T2, T3. Just not sure what order to hook them up in.

[kx250rider]

If you have only 3 wires, it shouldn't matter. It isn't polarized, and there isn't any Neutral wire. Just 3 hots, and an earth ground to the motor frame (safety). Be sure, of course, that your converter is set to output the correct voltage for the motor, since there are several common 3-phase voltages. If the motor has 6 or more wires coming out, you need to know which ones are the working voltage program jumpers, and which ones are the power input L1, L2, & L3 (aka T1,T2, T3). There is/was a plackard on the motor which tells which wires to hook together and jump for either 220 3-phase or 440/480 3-phase. If you get those wrong, it could damage the motor, and/or worse... My SD-10 motor has 6 wires, and each is numbered with a paper tag. There's a metal plate showing the configuration of the wires.

I'm not familiar with your phase converter, but my KB converter has several adjustments on it for start load, run load, max & min current delivery, etc.

JUST A NOTE: I was unable to get my SD-10 to start up with the KB phase converter/controller. I haven't found out why yet, but I suspect the chopper rotor is too heavy, and is tripping the over-current sensor in the converter.

Charles

[holler]

Hey, just wondering, if anyone here (Derek Thompson possibly?) knows how to wire up a three phase rotator motor, PLEASE let me know.
I am planning on hooking it up to an Allen Bradley Power Flex 4 solid-state motor drive/Phase converter.
It has legs like T1, T2, T3. Just not sure what order to hook them up in.

You can make it run backwards if you want, depending on the phase convertor

[Nelso90]

Yeah! This thing will do forwards, backwards, variable speed up to 240Hz (Fat chance I'll take it that high.), and is capable of soft starting. There are actually 9 wires coming out of this thing. Some are grouped together. I have a group of 2, a group of 3, and a group of four. All are numbered with a metal tag. I have yet to find any ID or anything on the motor.

[Nelso90]

Ha HAAAAAA!!!
Mike Nelson is officially the master of three phase power!!
I got my Allen Bradley Powerflex 4 motor drive going! I wired it up and everything works perfect with the 1/3HP rotator motor. I can soft-start, soft-stop, run it in 2 directions, and vary the top speed from 0-240Hz. I only run it to 120, on the count of I don't want it to blow up. The motor runs at 1750RPM normally, but I have it to run 0-3600RPM on my drive. This is gonna make one hell of a rotator!
And I didn't kill myself running it on 220V either!
Video to follow shortly!

[Nelso90]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Q0sXTo ... annel_page

Here's the vid!