<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;"><div><div>Hi Mark,</div></div><div>Thanks' but I have researched that method and it is very simple but not efficient. There are some Youtube video's on how to do it. Pretty nifty!</div><div>Hank</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="yahoo_quoted_2487195967" class="yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div>On Saturday, August 5, 2017, 6:18:38 PM MDT, Marc de Piolenc via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir='ltr'><html><body>There's an old trick using a 3-phase motor as a converter. I will dig it <br clear="none">up out of my archives if you don't already know it.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best,<br clear="none">Marc<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 8/5/2017 12:14 AM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles wrote:<br clear="none">> Hi All,<br clear="none">> I need some input on converting single phase power to 3 phase. I am <br clear="none">> thinking about going with a rotary phase converter for the two small <br clear="none">> motors on the lathe. I am not sure though if my 208 V motors can handle <br clear="none">> 220-240 volt power. I need to check my power source but it will be at <br clear="none">> least 220 I am guessing. Maybe I need to use an inverter with variable <br clear="none">> output power if that exists?<br clear="none">> Hank<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Archivale catalog: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.archivale.com/catalog" target="_blank">http://www.archivale.com/catalog</a><br clear="none">Polymath weblog: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.archivale.com/weblog" target="_blank">http://www.archivale.com/weblog</a><br clear="none">Translations (ProZ profile): <a shape="rect" href="http://www.proz.com/profile/639380" target="_blank">http://www.proz.com/profile/639380</a><br clear="none">Translations (BeWords profile): <a shape="rect" href="http://www.bewords.com/Marc-dePiolenc" target="_blank">http://www.bewords.com/Marc-dePiolenc</a><br clear="none">Ducted fans: <a shape="rect" href="http://massflow.archivale.com/" target="_blank">http://massflow.archivale.com/</a><div class="yqt4461980022" id="yqtfd19639"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br clear="none"></div></body></html></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>