North Liberty and South Bend, Indiana | Expanding and upgrading. Looks like I'll have 5 auger motors and a dryer that will or could be 3ph. Dryer for sure is. I'd like to run the auger motors with speed control. If I did the math correctly I'd need a 150 horsepower phase converter. Question is how could I go about it. 1ph into phase converter then 3ph to vfd's for motors and 3ph to dryer. Or 1ph into converter for dryer and 1ph to 3ph vfd's for the motors. I have asked a few electricians and gotten different answers. Looking for real world advice. I believe the cheapest route is a phase converter with vfd's after it. None of these auger motors will run unless dryer is running. Fans and unloads are additional and can be run single phase although I may run unloads on 1ph to 3ph vfd's. |
Powering a grain facility upgrade
