Hi all,
I am in the brewing industry and I accidentally purchased a Goulds pump that was meant for 50Hz service (typical for Europe but not USA). I unfortunately cannot return it so I was looking to find out if I can use a VFD to control it's speed or at least bring my 60Hz service down to 50Hz.
I have plenty of experience with VFD's I have several currently in use within the brewery. But they are all used with 3-phase power and 3-phase motors.
I have read that there are special cases where you can use a VFD to control the speed of a single phase motor. This link explains the type of motors that can be controlled with a VFD even if they are single phase:
To paraphrase, it says these following motor types could be controlled with a single phase VFD:
Permanent Split Capacitor (PSC)
Shaded Pole Induction Motor
AC Synchronous
The motor I purchased is this one:
I was wondering if anyone could tell me which above category (or other category) this motor would fit into?? Beware the photo on the website is not the actual product photo. This motor does NOT have a capacitor. I attached my photo of the actual product, you can see there is no capacitor. I appreciate any info y'all might have!
I am in the brewing industry and I accidentally purchased a Goulds pump that was meant for 50Hz service (typical for Europe but not USA). I unfortunately cannot return it so I was looking to find out if I can use a VFD to control it's speed or at least bring my 60Hz service down to 50Hz.
I have plenty of experience with VFD's I have several currently in use within the brewery. But they are all used with 3-phase power and 3-phase motors.
I have read that there are special cases where you can use a VFD to control the speed of a single phase motor. This link explains the type of motors that can be controlled with a VFD even if they are single phase:
To paraphrase, it says these following motor types could be controlled with a single phase VFD:
Permanent Split Capacitor (PSC)
Shaded Pole Induction Motor
AC Synchronous
The motor I purchased is this one:
I was wondering if anyone could tell me which above category (or other category) this motor would fit into?? Beware the photo on the website is not the actual product photo. This motor does NOT have a capacitor. I attached my photo of the actual product, you can see there is no capacitor. I appreciate any info y'all might have!