After searching for some time, I have finally settled on and purchased a kasuga cnc knee mill(8' tall 6200lb beast). This mill has the Bandit 3 control (working) as well as a "factory" vfd interfaced with the control driving the 4hp 3phase spindle motor. As with most here, my house does not have 3phase power installed and I am going to need to figure out how to run this thing off of 240 single phase. The previous owner used a 10 hp rotary convertor to power the machine on single phase and has offered to sell it to me for $400. The spindle motor is 4hp so the 10hp is serious overkill in my opinion...Which means big wires breakers, etc needed to the convertor.. I think. What I am wondering is can I simply run the vfd off of the single phase 240 and rewire the machine's distribution panel as appropriate? I am concerned with the VFD having insufficient capacity to run off of the single phase since it was originally sized for 3p. Am I going to burn something up trying this or just have less power? Also, any future 3phase machines will be run off of properly sized VFDs(for single phase) so the rotary convertor will not be of much help there.
Anyone have any ideas on how to proceed?
Mitchell