Inverter and 3Ph Motor - Very slow revs

Hi All,

I bought myself a new motor (0.55kw, dual voltage, 4 pole) for my Myford lathe and to test it I thought I'd hook it up to my Chinese 2.2kw VFD that I bought for my CNC router. I have used the VFD with router spindle and it works fine so I know that the VFD is functional. I swapped the links in the motor to make it delta configuration and wired up U,V,W and Earth to the VFD and powered up.

On the VFD I pressed the Run button and slowly started to increase the frequency. The motor started to turn slowly but as I increased the Hz the shaft slowed and eventually stopped turning altogether. The thing I found most wierd was that the motor sounded like it was getting faster as I increased the Hz on the VFD but the shaft speed didn't reflect that. I would say that it reaches about 50-60 RPM (not Hz) before the shaft speed drops off again.

The VFD is completely unaltered from new, I haven't changed any of the parameters. I have looked through the manual and I can't see that any of the parameters would have an effect on the symptoms that I am experiencing - but I'm certainly not sure of that. I have tried swapping a couple of the phase wires around, rechecked all my connections, turned it off and back on again (a 25 year career in IT - can you tell?), checked the ribbon cable to the VFD's control panel, and re-wired it all up again in case I had a brain-fart but I am still getting the same result. Anyone know where I might be going wrong - am I doing something properly daft? Or could I have a duff motor?

Completely different motor to the Chinese spindles so you will need to re-program the VFD parameters to suit.
Give me the details of the motor ie: current, volts etc and I'll take a look and tell you which parameters to change.

Edit: And the Vfd make and model just in case it's not a huanyang

Here's a picture of the spec plate. Oh, and the VFD is a HY02D223B. Cheers Jazz.

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Erm, I've left my manual for Huanyang VFD at work but I've done enough of these now to know these are the main parameters to check and looked back at a few posts to verify.
Obviously make a note of the current settings before changing so can set back.

Pd04 = base frequency so need 50hz
Pd05 = Max freq so set this to the max you want to run this motor at ie: 100hz wouldn't go above that.
Pd08 = Max voltage set to 240V
Pd141 = rated volts set to 230V
Pd142 = rated current set to 2.74
Pd143 = # poles set to 4
Pd144 = motor speed set 1370

You're a legend Jazz. I'll give it a go.

Result!

As ever I'm in your debt. :beer:

I'm kicking myself for not having spotted the rated current setting. I was mighty surprised that the frequency was set to 400Hz, I just assumed that it would be 50Hz. Clearly the spindle operates at much higher frequencies than the squirrel cage motor and presumably that's how it reaches 24k RPM. I have some motor related bedtime reading tonight!

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Originally Posted by CaptainBarnacles

I'm kicking myself for not having spotted the rated current setting. I was mighty surprised that the frequency was set to 400Hz, I just assumed that it would be 50Hz. Clearly the spindle operates at much higher frequencies than the squirrel cage motor and presumably that's how it reaches 24k RPM.

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I'm no expert on VFD's but sure your problem was more the Frequency than the current but yes wouldn't help. This is why I said wouldn't run much more than 100hz with a 50hz motor and why you heard the frequency change but not the speed as the motor got saturated. Suppose it's a little like when steppers get saturated at high rpm and stall.

Another issue could be that a 50Hz motor is likely to have a rather higher inductance than a spindle?? hence if you apply 400Hz, you'll only get 1/8th of the current, which won't get it going well.