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Just some information... the National Electric Code is easy to get a copy of. The county I live in allows me to do any wiring I like to my own house, as long as I get the appropriate permit, and get an inspection when the work is done. It also allows me to have others who are not licensed...

No, there aren't any brushes in that generator. You could start by checking the 6 diodes on the diode board that's in the cabinet under the output lugs. They rectify output from CVT1 to make the exciter field current, and if one has an intermittent problem, or if there's a bad connection...

I was about to buy a NOS ASK kit, but changed my mind when I realized how much harder routine maintenance would be with all those covers on everything. I decided if I need to quiet my 003A down, I'll build a shed that's big enough to let me move around to work on it.

I've come across this a lot. It's not difficult to find a beginner's tutorial on electricity and read it a few times, but some people would rather just say, "I'm good with mechanical stuff, but I just don't understand electricity."

Very true with a T, but a good alternative with self-sealing shrink tube is this. You squeeze between the two wires with long nose pliers and hold until the adhesive sets:

Wow, the description clearly says in bold type that it's a 400 Hz unit.

Just read all the specs before you buy a VFD, because many have 3-phase in put as well as output. In my experience, they're really the way to go, if you have 3-phase equipment that you need to run on single phase. Not only will that problem be solved, but you'll have the ability for variable...

How is that possible? Are you referring to using a 3 phase to single phase converter? Or maybe they're run from a VFD that can be configured for either(?) I'm not aware of any 3-phase motors that can be configured for single phase, but I realize I'm not aware of everything. :)

I'm with you there! My wife knows to dry my towels on the line because I like them nice and scratchy. She prefers hers done in the dryer so they're soft. The worst is the dryer with dryer sheets. My eyes burn if I'm anywhere near something dried with that perfume on them.

It probably will get just as hot if it's the type I have that has a thermostat and cycles the heat to keep it at a fairly constant temperature. I don't know if all dryers are made that way though.

Buck/Boost transformers are much cheaper than standard stepup transformers because they don't have to supply all the power, just the difference. For example, if you need 5 kW at 240 (21 amps), and you have 208, the boost transformer supplies 32v at 21 amps = 572 watts. So you could be...

I'm not sure I'm reading this as you meant it, but if you connect a 3-phase supply to a house with two phases on the two hot sides of the panel and connect the third phase to the neutral bus, you will have big problems. Normal household power has only two "legs" of 120v each, 240 between the...

The legs are 120 degrees apart with 3-phase. In essentially all cases, when you use two legs and get 208v, the load can't tell about the 120 degrees between phases because it's not looking at the two 120v legs compared to neutral separately. It just sees two wires with 208VAC on them. Clothes...

Or you can spread the 208 loads around if they're not all wired together. There are three combinations that give you 208: 1-2, 2-3, and 1-3.

It could have the wrong timing button.

I'm not sure why you said that, Rusty. Running a 240 dryer on two legs of 3-phase power, giving 208 volts, works fine unless the motor is so voltage sensitive that it's not happy with 208. That would be unlikely, since I've never heard of a dryer specifically made for 208. Or did we find...

You're right, I was the one thinking backwards. :)

No, a MEP-003A is a 10 kW four cylinder diesel unit. Maybe a MEP-831A.

True enough. For those of us who occasionally run tests with resistive load banks of some sort, those will have a power factor of 1, so as you said, the meter will read 20% low. This is likely why a lot of reports of load tests come back with "it easily ran at 125% for an hour." It was really...

By the way Dougski, I thought I recognized your avatar photo. Never say die. :)