280V motor on 230V circuit

Connecting the HV windings together would probably work a lot better. Would want to knock out the magnetic shunts too, that can be tricky but I've done it on several without damaging the windings.

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I wanted some heavy copper wire to wind a coil with so I tore xxxx started to tear up an old microwave transformer. Found out that pretty copper wire was aluminum with a copper colored layer on top of it. :(

That's pretty common these days, the consumer microwave oven is a perfect example of something that has been engineered to perfection to be as cheap as humanly possible and yet still function adequately.

Good that terrorists are brain-washed lunatics, and haven't access to incendiary rounds:-)

I have no idea, we didn't even open up the washing machines as they were under guarantee. I know that the landlady's electrician connected the wms single phase, and I connected (in the distr.box) all 3 phases. I suppose it has 3 elements connected wye, and single phase is 1 element, plus motor and automation.

Considering a NEMA 6-20 plug only has the 2 hot prongs plus ground and the cord is a 14-3 AWG with one conductor being ground, yes it is single phase. :-)

Each mag has its own waveguide with a rotating antenna at the end that extends into the oven cavity. 2 of the waveguides are at the top of the cavity firing down and the third is at the bottom firing up. The HV transformer primaries are wired so that the top 2 mags fire on the positive alternation of the AC sine wave and the bottom mag fires on the negative alternation. The top 2 antennas are driven by a single timer motor with large plastic gears (complete with timing marks) so that they both are pointing the same direction at all times as they rotate. The HV transformers have tapped primaries so that the oven can operate on either

I think I have provided WAY more info than anybody wanted or needed.

In my other post I forgot to mention that Sam already has most of what I wrote posted on his site somewhere as I sent him the details awhile back.

Perhaps more info, but intersting info, and appreciated.

|> | Yes like my Amana commercial RadarRange which is 4KW in 2.2KW out and |> has 3 |> | HV magnetrons along with 3 each of the other necessary items (cap, |> diode, |> | etc.). It even has a current transformer that tells the control board |> via |> | current draw when the magnetrons are warmed up so that the timer doesn't |> | start counting down until it is actually cooking. It has a standard |> NEMA |> | 6-20 plug on it now and will pop a bag of popcorn in roughly 75 seconds |> | without scorching it. I can tell you it sure beats the hell out of |> regular |> | microwave ovens for most things. The only thing I still use the regular |> one |> | for are items that involve liquids as the Amana tends to make them |> either |> | boil over or boils out all of the water before the food is cooked. |>

|> Will it operate on single phase power, like I have in my home? |>

| | Considering a NEMA 6-20 plug only has the 2 hot prongs plus ground and the | cord is a 14-3 AWG with one conductor being ground, yes it is single phase.

Don't be so quick to jump to conclusions. The NEMA 6-XX series gets used for both the 208 volt 120 degree and the 240 volt 180 degree 2-wire connections. Some devices work on one and not the other. You CAN derive three phase from one and not the other. A motor could be wired to use that angular difference (with the neutral) to achieve a motor starting direction instead of having a capacitor to change the angle on a shaded pole.

Also, if the supply is 208 volts then the maximum power available is 4157 watts (3326 under the 80% rule), whereas with 240 volts it is 4800 (3840 under 80%).

In this specific application the third prong is used only as a chassis ground connection as everything including the light bulb is 230V. Also I am no expert here but I think intermittent loads can exceed the 80% rule hence the 14 gauge cord which would normally only be good for 15 amps but is protected by a 20 amp fuse inside the oven and a 20 amp double pole circuit breaker in the service panel. The NM-B (Romex) I used is 12-3 with ground and has the white neutral conductor simply capped but not connected at either end.

Daniel Who Wants to Know wrote: >

. The US NEC allows about any cord of 2 conductors (not including ground) to be used at 18A. Most (all?) cords with type starting H (hard use) can be used at 20A.

The 80% rule is for continuous loads - over 3 hours.

In alt.engineering.electrical bud-- wrote: | Daniel Who Wants to Know wrote: | >

|> Also I am |> no expert here but I think intermittent loads can exceed the 80% rule hence |> the 14 gauge cord which would normally only be good for 15 amps but is |> protected by a 20 amp fuse inside the oven and a 20 amp double pole circuit |> breaker in the service panel. | . | The US NEC allows about any cord of 2 conductors (not including ground) | to be used at 18A. Most (all?) cords with type starting H (hard use) can | be used at 20A. | | The 80% rule is for continuous loads - over 3 hours.

Like a computer?

"for short period and with limited lenght"

. I see neither limitation in the US NEC. .

Correct. #14 is the same as Europe's 4 mm^2-which we usually use here in Greece for the regular, 4 kW hot water heaters. It's rated for 20 A continuous duty when in a conduit with 1 live conductor (IIRC), we don't have extensions in that gauge. We usually protect it with an 20 A circuit breaker (single pole, aka automatic fuse) and a double pole circuit breaker (aka switch) which is not automatic, just to turn on off the water heater. There are 3kW heating elements, too, for older installations, which are quite incapable of sustaining a 4kW load.