a step-up-down transformer should work fine, if slightly less elegantly than a switching rectifier... you just need one sized to the load, that's probably about 30 pounds of pig-iron... http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=790700&item=TC-2000&type=store http://www.allelectronics.com/pdf/transformers.pdf On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Randy Bush wrote:
you're gonna love this one.
i have a piece of equipment i will be shipping to china that i want to test before i ship it over. it has a <gasp!> electric motor! so i need some kind of transformer/inverter setup that plugs into red blooded american 115v/60hz and can handle
Power requirement: 1.5 kW Voltage requirement: 220 V Frequency: 50/60 Hz Current requirement: 10 A Current protection by user: 16 A (slow blow) Protection type: IP 54 Processor: C167, 20 MHz Spindle motor power: AC 380 Watts Brake: Electro-dynamic & mechanical
any clues? thanks.
randy
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