I realize this question has been asked a lot, but I have a size I can find no history for. I am upgrading the DC in my woodshop, and I operate a sawmill so I have quite a bit of machinery and equipment. Some if it excess such as a 20" impeller and housing. It was built by a machinist and ran for 20 years sucking the debris out from the below the pit of a 56" saw, so I have no doubt it can handle whatever my woodshop can throw at it without coming apart.
Ideally I would not use it sipmly because it won't be very efficient to run. But since I don't run the DC but a couple hours a day max I figured I'd see what the guesstimate would be on a properly sized motor. I do have a 3 phase convertor I use to power some of my equipment but the slave motor is only 10HP so with my 5 HP table saw running that leaves 5HP I could use for the DC motor. I don't really like the idea of running a full 10HP load on the cheap Chinese slave motor but I doubt a single phase 5 HP would pull a impeler of that size and weight would it?
I will be venting everything outside into a bin with no chip separator.
Ideally I would not use it sipmly because it won't be very efficient to run. But since I don't run the DC but a couple hours a day max I figured I'd see what the guesstimate would be on a properly sized motor. I do have a 3 phase convertor I use to power some of my equipment but the slave motor is only 10HP so with my 5 HP table saw running that leaves 5HP I could use for the DC motor. I don't really like the idea of running a full 10HP load on the cheap Chinese slave motor but I doubt a single phase 5 HP would pull a impeler of that size and weight would it?
I will be venting everything outside into a bin with no chip separator.