On 06/07/2013 06:44 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
That's serious power -- 10's of kW. What on
earth does it use it all
for?
How can a tape drive take 40A on 3 phases? The motors can't be that big,
surely?
I would guess that it has something to do with needing to start and
stop the spindle motors very quickly.
I guess that'd require more than my laser printer which needs about 9A.
It would trip the UPS when I'd print a page.
Yow, and I thought I had some beefy printers. What are you using
nowadays?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA