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You can get smaller vfds that are single phase output. Not sure how well that will play with a start run wound motor.

I It's absolutely possible. Not to mention these are apples to oranges. Your standard household breaker is a thermo mag breaker (thermo being the slow overload trip, mag(netic) being the inrush. Their trip curve (time vs current) is rather forgiving (especially GE breakers). Now for...

It's not the FLA you need to look at right now. It's the inrush. They can take as high as 10 times the FLA on startup

There is nothing preventing you from : A. Turning on the generator with line power available B. Turning the generator on during an outage with the house main in the closed position. The only thing preventing the generator current from reaching outside of your home is a written procedure of...

You are setting yourself up for a massive injury to yourself or others. To properly feed your house you need at minimum an interlock to prevent generator current from ever leaving your home. Using the generator lugs as a feed through to power your air compressor is a big nono. Sent from my...

We recently had a buss bar failure when manually driving object over the track. 400 amps at 480 make a good boom. No injuries btw, just some soiled shorts

First off. Ground Ground Ground. You might just have way too much inrush. I tried a 003 with a 3 phase motor welder and it did the same thing. Load testing showed the breaker and generator to be just fine, so the inrush was the problem. If it turns out the breaker is failing, Good luck...