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Thread of the year, I think.
Jerry
Jerry
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Haven't forgot about it...just haven't had the time yet. Hoping to have it up this coming weekend...Bump for the updated video when you have time !!! Thank you
Kind of; they accomplished the goal of lowering the ammeter and % power meter readings, and raising the trip setpoints for the overloads. But...it was a little too much. The meters began to read about 10% too low, which I'm really not a fan of. I decided (for now) that the best thing to do is to leave them as is and just know that it is OK to run things right up to 120-130%.Did the planned mods to the Control Transformer to make the overload trip properly work out?
I will also change out the cables for L1 and L3 to compensate for the additional current.
When I did mine, its a MEP-005A, I cut the bus bar on the bottom where ALL of those wires are.... I removed some and pushed some out of the way- and then used a Dremel tool with a very small cut off disk to cut the bus bar in place, I just removed the small picece from the T12 area. I broke 2 or 3 of the disk's before I was done. I attached the jumper wire on the bottom as well. Go back and look at the original link I posted to see the pictures of this.My set seems a little different than yours, my buss bar is bolted underneath, it's going to be a pain to cut it.
Mike
Some alternatives are either to custom wind your own resistors, use an adjustable resistor (those are available as needed, but not as common as they were years ago) and to use a combination of parallel and series resistors to get the desired value(s) and wattage. I can help with the math for wattage and values if anyone wants an assist there.All sorts of data!
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Looks like I'll need a minimum 7 watt resistor at about 2.25 ohms. Couldn't find anything in stock anywhere at 2.2 ohms, but I did find a 10W 2 ohm one. Should be close enough...those meters and trip setpoints aren't very accurate anyway. Here are the resistors I ordered:
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