cody michael
10-19-2015, 10:23 AM
I had previously ordered a set of the cheap chinese vfds off ebay, couldn't get them to work, a few very helpful people off this board called and walked me through everything and they just wouldn't work. I returned them and purchased two teco fm50's it cost about 75$ more but I wired them in, hit the on button and the RAS and drill press fired right up, everything works exactly as it should, I may tweek some of the parameters but so far I have been very happy with them, I have not wired them in properly yet, just wired straight to motor to test, I did use the drill press to drill some holes in a piece of metal (I think stainless steel, I found it in my barn courtesy of previous owner) it was only 1/8 thick and I was drilling 3/16 holes and I still killed 4-5 drill bits (should of bought a higher quality one but I wanted to get it down now) so my experience with the teco fm50 has been great, it worked right out of the box, I will be wiring in on off switches and mounting them somewhere out of the way at some point.
I will have a bunch of stuff from the previous 3 phase setup, disconnects, fuse boxes magnetic switches etc. is any of it worth selling? after I mount the vfd on the tool I would not need those items for anything right? should I put any sort of fuse between vfd and motor or does the vfd protect the motor?
I will have a bunch of stuff from the previous 3 phase setup, disconnects, fuse boxes magnetic switches etc. is any of it worth selling? after I mount the vfd on the tool I would not need those items for anything right? should I put any sort of fuse between vfd and motor or does the vfd protect the motor?