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Now I know the plug on the front is a dead give away also. Those plugs are expensive too. I'm learning a lot making all these mistakes though so I'm having fun.
Well I had just made that trip up to Pennsylvania to pick up that 803 power plant and had a little 831 in New Jersey not be available when I showed up to get it and wasn't feeling like 20 more hours of traveling and I needed to get back to work so I had it shipped. I paid more for the shipping...
Just a bunch of stuff I'm learning and seeing as I dig around in this thing. 2PBFeet had the idea of running the fans with a 400hz vfd. It only needs to be about a 6 amp vfd so 20 but that is a good idea since these are some really powerful fans and it will be hard to replace them.
So after speaking with the guy from 400hz repair a little more and trying to sell him the load bank we established that mine is older since it has the 400hz fans. They changed to high voltage dc when covid made it impossible to get replacement fans. I am learning more.
Right. I actually did that already. I took a 10kw heat kit for a furnace and ran a fan across it and it worked really well but the load bank looks nice and clean.
So here are a bunch of pics inside the bank. The only thing I see that might care about the hz is the transformer and what I believe are little rectifiers. Even the CT is 50 to 400hz. Any one see what I'm missing? 2PBFeet seems to be very electrically save. Do you see anything? Would the...
Yeah I guess a 10kw switch would be pretty big hu? Maybe I'll use breakers or something for the stages. Maybe I'll just try to sell it and wait until I can get the right one. I have kind of a bad habit of jumping before I look. The info was kind of hidden in the listing and I would have had to...
I reached out to 400hz repair and they at least answered me. I'm not getting any more than this though
Well Sir,
You purchased something that was specifically made for the Patriot Missile System. 400 HZ is the only Frequency that it works at and the input power that drives the LB is 115 phase...
That is kind of my plan if I can't use it with its circuit board then use the coils with toggle bolts and an external fan. It is a nice load bank though so I would like to find a way not to butcher it. Lol