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Digital Phase Converters

There is a great variety of three-phase equipment that you can get your hands on! But what if you don’t have a 3-phase power supply? The costs of installing three-phase utility power are quite high and this is where phase converters come in. The type of converter to use generally should come down to what type of equipment you have and how you are planning to use it. Moderately to light loads that you are not planning to use up to their full HP potential could probably get away with Static Phase Converters (you can check out an article on …

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Basics About a Phase Converter

What is a Phase Converter? A wide variety of commercial and industrial electrical equipment requires three-phase power. Electric utilities do not install three-phase power as a matter of course because it costs significantly more than single-phase installation. As an alternative to utility installed three-phase, rotary phase converters, static phase converters and phase converting variable frequency drives (VFD) have been used for decades to generate three-phase power from a single-phase source. A phase converter is a device that converts electric power provided as single phase to multiple phase or vice-versa. The majority of phase converters are used to produce three phase …

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