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240volts 3phase 6wires | 12 comments (12 topical, editorial)
Re: 240volts 3phase 6wires (3.00 / 0) (#2)
by Flux on Sun Aug 24th, 2008 at 06:01:27 AM MST
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No you won't see much about it. Nearly all the information on motor conversions was produced by Zubbly and it was N American based.

The European system is perfectly simple. Motors usually have 6 leads giving the option of using 415v star connected or 230V delta connected. There is no need for the complex N American scheme that seems to have to cater for 115v 230v and 460v.

Theses things were never intended to be converted to alternators so you are restricted to two options with the European system. The N American scheme in its original form is not much more versatile but by digging into the winding and breaking an internal star point you give yourself a whole new set of options.

If you want to do anything with the European windings other than star delta then again you have to dig into the winding. You can split pole groups and make many more options.

None of this is easy, I find it strange that people who are not prepared to do a winding will dive into something quite complex and confusing to rearrange connections. I am fairly happy to do a winding but I absolutely hate digging into an existing winding, I can't think of many things more confusing.

Flux



Re: 240volts 3phase 6wires (3.00 / 0) (#3)
by kattos on Sun Aug 24th, 2008 at 11:22:25 AM MST
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what options do i have with a european motor

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Re: 240volts 3phase 6wires (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by Flux on Sun Aug 24th, 2008 at 11:43:49 AM MST
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I thought I covered that. You can use it star connected for high voltage ( most likely will need something like 100v battery. You can delta connect it and it may match a 48v battery ( possible 24v if you use little magnets).

If you want to go down to lower voltages then you will be forced to reconnect the pole groups. If it is 2 pole then you can halve the voltage by connecting the 2 coils per phase in parallel instead of series. With 4 pole you can use series parallel or full parallel. That may get you down into the region to match 12v.

Having split the pole groups you can still do star and delta changes on these so you have a lot of options ( and ends to sort out).

These sort of things are probably going to be best for something like 48v. Perhaps not so bad for 24v but a real nightmare for 12v.

Flux

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