3 Jun
2003
3 Jun
'03
3:27 p.m.
Wouldn't it be so much easier to make a power inverter to run at 50 Hz
and save all the time and expense of finding gears & etc. & etc.?? I
have a power inverter that would be a simple cap change (two of them) to
run 50 Hz. Output power is about 250 Watts now, maybe 175-200 at 50 Hz
(or would it be more?)? How much power does a 33 take? Discuss...
-Bryan
Tony Duell wrote:
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Hi
One could buy a new pulley and add some additional capacitance
IIRC, the coupling between the motor and the rest of the mechnism
consists of a pair of helically-cut gears on the end of the motor (one on
the motor spindle, the other on a separate spindle). The driven gear is
moulded integrally with a sprocket for a toothed belt that goes to a
larger sprovket on the transmitter shaft.
The gears are almost certainly custom parts and would not be easy to get
now (unless you know of a souce of Model 33 parts...). Making them would
also be non-trivial, I think, at least in most home workshops.