Re: [ihc] 3/1 phase question

[bearbvd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Hermann)]

At 10:43 PM 4/5/04, Ryan Moore wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Greg Hermann" <bearbvd@domain.elided>
>To: "Joel Furtek" <jf7e@domain.elided>; <ihc@domain.elided>
>Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 22:35
>Subject: Re: [ihc] 3/1 phase question

An inverter or rectifier is not what's needed. You COULD just hook up the
leads from one phase of the generator, but---- EWWWWWW !!

I've never seen a rotating three phase converter run backwards---but MAYBE .

I suppose you could rectify the 3 phase and then feed the DC from that to a
1 phase inverter, but that would cost more than getting the right generator
!!

Greg
>
>
>> At 10:04 PM 4/5/04, Joel Furtek wrote:
>> >Fellow binders,
>> >Please forgive the off-topic question, but I recall a rather lengthy
>> >discussion of 1 and 3 phase electrics some time ago.  Could a kind
>> >soul email me (off-list if advised) with a rather simple readers'
>> >digest version of an answer to this question:  Could a 3-phase
>> >generator (ex mil, self propelled) reasonably be adapted to power a
>> >home (single-phase)?
>> >Thanks!
>> >Joel
>>
>> Simple answer is yes, sort of, but NO, not very efficiently.
>>
>> Greg
>
>In that case, if you really want to do it and do it easily?  Get an
>inverter, airplanes use them to go from ground power to the 3 phase they use
>sometimes.
>
>Basically it can either be solid state, or an electric motor that turns a
>generator (don't know if there is a solid state one for what you want).
>That should work for what you seem to want to do and actually isn't all that
>difficult.  It's not as efficient as rectifying immediately at the source
>(making it in the form you want), but it will work and shouldn't be
>extremely difficult to set up.  You could mount the inverter on the
>generator or put it in a fixed location and just plug in as needed.
>
>Thanks,
>Ryan
>
>
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