240 corner-ground Delta -> 480 Wye?

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Screwloose

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I have a building with an old 240V corner-grounded delta service, and I need to bump one circuit to 480V for a couple of small motors and control panels. Wiring the motors for 240V was the first thing I checked and that's not an option, plus the control panels include VFDs that will be very unhappy about hooking up to corner-grounded delta.

The right answer is to use a 240Δ primary, 480Y secondary transformer that's listed for step-up use, with the neutral bonded on the secondary, correct? Trying to sanity check myself since virtually all of my experience is going in the other direction.
 
You do not have a screw loose...

Eh, not so sure of that some days...

I have zero formal training as an electrician or anything directly relevant, but one day I decided to start building industrial machinery and desiging, wiring & programming control panels to include redoing a 100 amp, 5 kW CNC laser panel from scratch. Wiring this transformer with a plug and socket so it's not permanently attached is part of keeping myself just shy of the line where I get slapped by my AHJ, and saves money for things like getting UL 508A certified while I'm getting past the startup phase.
 
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