15HP 220v Belt / Mill motor

CBBC · Sep 8, 2018

I know what this was used for.... but does anyone have an idea what I COULD use it for?

It's big and heavy. I have 5753 Ph here and transformers. So the electrical isn't a problem.

But it is taking up room and I'd like to make it useful.

Maybe put a big buffer and grinder on it????

Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks. Grant

Mule Meat · Sep 8, 2018

Guy here that owns a cabinet shop uses large 240/277 volt motors to power huge drum and belt sanders..

He has a 36" belt and a 48" drum sander in his shop.

David G · Sep 8, 2018

Where are you at with 577 3 phase?

Jeff NWOH · Sep 8, 2018

I think that's Canadian 3 phase.

David G · Sep 8, 2018

I was curious and looked it up, seems Canada and some textile mills in the SE use that voltage.

CBBC · Sep 9, 2018

Pretty much all 3 phase coming in up here will be at 575V ... some say it is 600 coming in, but plates on all the motors say 575. Doesn't matter, it's more than enough to kill you. I have a good electrician up the road who I'm happy to call when needed.

If you want it less voltage, it's transformed down to 440 - 208 V 3 ph on the customer end.

Most all new mills and equipment upgrades are going in at 575 on equipment like saws, planners etc.

My irrigation pumps are 75, 50, 30, 25hp and I have a couple of small 5 hp submersibles as well. All 575 V. Makes it easy at the pump house. Just a small 5-10kVa transformer for lights and controls. We can run long distances from the primary transformers on properly sized underground cable without much volt drop.

Regular house / shop power will still be 110/220 single ph.

Because few people have 3 ph, and mills etc are only replacing with new equipment and motors, motors like the ones above are given to me free. That one is old, but I have been given a few motors and submersible pumps less than 10 yrs old and with very few hours.

Grant

2x4 · Sep 9, 2018

my electrician friend suggests - boat anchor.

Stephen Newell · Sep 9, 2018

The shaft is long but you could put a v-belt pulley on it and use it anywhere you could use a motor that size. Who needs a motor that big though.

M-MAN · Sep 9, 2018

575 is common in textile Mills. The good thing about it is it will knock you away instead of frying you if you're just touching. Got hit once by a panel box that was live due to a short. Knocked me back three feet. 277 is what will grab you and leave a greasy spot.

buickanddeere · Sep 9, 2018

(quoted from post at 00:10:08 09/09/18) I was curious and looked it up, seems Canada and some textile mills in the SE use that voltage.

Canada three phase uses the following. 120/208. The was a 1960’s experiment with just European style 240/416 in downtown Toronto , the plan was no 120V equipment anywhere . Had my worst electrical shock 240V through the chest when some a$$ of a building security guard unlocked the electrical room door turned on every breaker in an electrical panel . He was wanting to please the hot office women how he could get things done . A little bit of 277/480 in the auto industry where production equipment is shipping back and forth across the border . Motors 20 to 200HP tend to be 600V. Most street and outdoor lighting and indoor industrial lighting is 347V . 200+ HP is 4160V , 13.8V and 27KV.

Janicholson · Sep 9, 2018

Run a "buzz Saw" or feed grinder with it. It is too big for anything that you would hold things up against like a grinder, or buffer. Jim

Dusty MI · Sep 9, 2018

I wonder if maybe it ran a line shaft?

Dusty

Dusty MI · Sep 9, 2018

The biggest jolt I got was off a 480 volt isolated buss system. One leg had gone to ground, which I didn't know, and I got across a hot leg and ground, therefor I got the full 480 volts in one arm and out the other.

I didn't do much of anything for about an hour after that, let my tool partner carry the load.

Dusty

CBBC · Sep 9, 2018

Yes it would have driven a line shaft in a lumber mill
if some kind. I'm up on vancouver island in the heart
of the coastal forest industry. There were lots of big
and small mills around... still a few around smaller
ones but even they wouldn't use a line shaft.

If I had a big enough gen set I'd build a small
portable rock crusher... lots of ideas on YouTube.
But for now the boat anchor is in the top place.

Thanks. Grant.

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