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Southern Alberta | Thanks everyone for the replies. From your responses, it encouraged me to drive the 2 hours to go look at the genset. The guy answering the phone was apparantly selling the genset for a bankruptcy of an oilwell service company. It is a newage UCI274D1L-63D generator powered by a perkins engine. It is a series star stator connection, puts out 105kW base rate and is inside an enclosed trailer. It was used in the winter for powering remote oil well sites (plugging in trucks and running lights) and only has 1000 hours on it. There are a whole bunch of electrical breaker panels in the front of the trailer and lots of outlets. some are normal 110 volt, some are 4 pole twist lock plugins rated at 30 amps and on the other breaker panel there are a whole bunch of rectangular outlets with little round pins about 12 to a connector, sort of like you would see to connect air seeder monitors to a tractor. Looks like some kind of long extension cords plugged into these.
So my impression is that some of the trailer is already wired for 120 and 240 single phase. Now for the part that I need help with. How do I tell if I am looking at a receptacle for single phase, or 3 phase? I am assuming that a normal digital volt meter may help me here. How is voltage measured on 3 phase? Do 3 phase circuit breakers look any different than single phase breakers?
Overall it looked like a very neat and tidy genset and I put in an offer on it.
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can convert 480 volt 3ph genset to 220v 1ph?
