Adding a Three Phase Service

[physis]

I want to thank you guys for the more recent responses, there's been a lot of good stuff mentioned in the last day and almost all of it rather useful. There are a few things I want to address specificly but I'm not much in the mood right now, I'll get back to it sometime later when I feel more like it.

By the way, the guy I'm working for is sort of trying to kill this job. He's bid it at $3500 actually hoping the guy doesn't call back, makes zero sense to me but who am I? and $3500 is a bit taller than it needs to be and the customer isn't to happy about spending lots of money, but then again, hey, what's new. I think it would be both cheaper and better to just land another panel being a VFD'll cost $2K. I'm not to big on the rotary phase converter idea, rather noisy and mecanical wear's also a consideration.

Anyway, thanks again guys.

 

[e57]

~~~~By the way, the guy I'm working for is sort of trying to kill this job. He's bid it at $3500 actually hoping the guy doesn't call back, makes zero sense to me but who am I? and $3500 is a bit taller than it needs to be and the customer isn't to happy about spending lots of money, but then again, hey, what's new. I think it would be both cheaper and better to just land another panel being a VFD'll cost $2K. I'm not to big on the rotary phase converter idea, rather noisy and mecanical wear's also a consideration.

Anyway, thanks again guys.

IMO - commercial rent/real estate is pretty desparate right now - it may be cheaper in the long run to move to a building that suits his needs - how many one man and vans can you get for $3500? If he's not into paying yourselves, AND the poco for 3 phase in his preffered flavor, and your not into the 'noise' of a rotary convertor to power said 'tile cutting machine' - then it sounds like 'moving truck' to me. And maybe he'll learn not to buy/take delivery of equipment he can't power like the many other people who have learned that lesson before him.

 

[acrwc10]

I want to thank you guys for the more recent responses, there's been a lot of good stuff mentioned in the last day and almost all of it rather useful. There are a few things I want to address specificly but I'm not much in the mood right now, I'll get back to it sometime later when I feel more like it.

By the way, the guy I'm working for is sort of trying to kill this job. He's bid it at $3500 actually hoping the guy doesn't call back, makes zero sense to me but who am I? and $3500 is a bit taller than it needs to be and the customer isn't to happy about spending lots of money, but then again, hey, what's new. I think it would be both cheaper and better to just land another panel being a VFD'll cost $2K. I'm not to big on the rotary phase converter idea, rather noisy and mecanical wear's also a consideration.

Anyway, thanks again guys.

So this guy dropped 100K on a machine that doesn't work and $3500 dollars seems like a lot of money, This guy sounds like a real whiz in the business planning dept. Maybe he should be running a bank then he could ask for an Obama hand out.

 

[e57]

So this guy dropped 100K on a machine that doesn't work and $3500 dollars seems like a lot of money, This guy sounds like a real whiz in the business planning dept. Maybe he should be running a bank then he could ask for an Obama hand out.

Yes - the guy is not very bright - but lets be clear, Bush handed out the first half of the basket - Obama gets to hand out what little is left.

 

[physis]

then it sounds like 'moving truck' to me.

That's a pretty interesting option that hasn't occured to me, it might be as cost effective as anything else.

On the one hand I can't blame the guy for not wanting to spend a lot of money but at the same time, you either do it or don't. But then I'm pretty sure he can get this done for more like $1500, at least if he doesn't need a transformer, which I sort of expect he will, but it wouldn't have to be very big.

In' the guys defense though, he's already owned this machine for some time and just moved to a new building, why he moved I don't know but his tile machine is the only thing he has there so far, at least aside from some stone he has to fabricate for his customers.

 

[e57]

at least if he doesn't need a transformer, which I sort of expect he will, but it wouldn't have to be very big.

A vague rule of thumb being ~50% labor, so odds are a smaller transformer will cost not much less than a larger one.

He moved there knowing the power issue - still his bad - still his problem.