Hi,
At the risk of being cheeky perhaps Ed would care to give a lecture on "phase conversion" to interested members in a side room at Golborne.
Although I've built a working 3 phase 415V system using a home wound transformer I merely followed the instructions provided on Doug's excellent DVD's. My background is mechanical engineering and the main problem in getting my system up and running was one of personal safety; I didn't need to understand the technicalities of how it all worked but like Joe I would welcome the chance to learn.
I'll understand if you decline Ed but don't wish to try to pressure you; I found putting my 3 phase system together to be fascinating and as it is so cheap the system could be installed into any home workshop.
Out of interest Mark; do you have a side room with a large screen that could display a DVD? The reason I ask is that when working we had fully equipped conference rooms and I could give demonstrations to my teams verbally whilst running a video. I also did monthly team briefs.
It would be the ideal opportunity to bring along the DVD covering Doug's transformer method but I would only do so after gaining Doug's permission via email. On the DVD Doug demonstrates one of his transformers starting up a big compressor under load to show the transformer is actually supplying full power. I'd be happy to do this part of the demonstration if possible and to answer any questions to the best of my ability.
I hope I'm not too ambitious or pushy but I feel a lot of good could come of such a meeting.
Kind regards, Col.
At the risk of being cheeky perhaps Ed would care to give a lecture on "phase conversion" to interested members in a side room at Golborne.
Although I've built a working 3 phase 415V system using a home wound transformer I merely followed the instructions provided on Doug's excellent DVD's. My background is mechanical engineering and the main problem in getting my system up and running was one of personal safety; I didn't need to understand the technicalities of how it all worked but like Joe I would welcome the chance to learn.
I'll understand if you decline Ed but don't wish to try to pressure you; I found putting my 3 phase system together to be fascinating and as it is so cheap the system could be installed into any home workshop.
Out of interest Mark; do you have a side room with a large screen that could display a DVD? The reason I ask is that when working we had fully equipped conference rooms and I could give demonstrations to my teams verbally whilst running a video. I also did monthly team briefs.
It would be the ideal opportunity to bring along the DVD covering Doug's transformer method but I would only do so after gaining Doug's permission via email. On the DVD Doug demonstrates one of his transformers starting up a big compressor under load to show the transformer is actually supplying full power. I'd be happy to do this part of the demonstration if possible and to answer any questions to the best of my ability.
I hope I'm not too ambitious or pushy but I feel a lot of good could come of such a meeting.
Kind regards, Col.
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