Warco WM16 Mill - Conversion to AC motor with VFD

[birchy]

Thank you John. The 2 pole 1.5kW might be a nice solution as it means 2800RPM without running the motor at twice its rated frequency.

As a man with experience of these machines, what would you normally choose?

[Mark P]

Hi there birchy, I am planing to do the same thing to my WM16 (fed up with changing brushes) but am thinking about keeping the 2 speed gearbox but replacing them with steel gears to give me a degree of backgear. The primary drive will be by toothed belt I think. Have you come across ant major problems with your conversion?

Regards Mark P.

[Graham]

If you have money to burn you can go the AC servo route and get 1.65Kw in a 85mm square flange motor and you will have more power than you will need on that small machine.

http://www.kollmorgen.com/en-gb/prod...-servo-motors/

Graham