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Old 03-01-2017, 11:51 AM   #3001 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MPaulHolmes View Post
The soft start is a good idea. Right now I was just ramping up voltage at startup, but I didn't ramp up frequency too.
Does that work to limit the current on startup? With less voltage applied, I would expect that the startup current would be lower than 10 times rated amps ... but my experience is with 3 phase motors. I'm a bit iffy on single phase motors

My single phase motors all have capacitor start. Does yours?

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