3Phase Supply, cheap as chips.

Hello, just had a rough quote for a 3 phase supply to my garage from the Western Power rep.With me digging the trench from garage to road, about 30 feet, £4500. That would terminate with all the gubbins in a box on the garage wall. Plus, probably another £1000 to get the "tails" from the depths of the bungalow, across to the said box on the wall. VAT would go on that as well.As the bloke said, its the way things are these days, beaurocracy and bu****it.One of his gangs did a job in the road somewhere, and left a roadworks sign by mistake, the company was fined £500 !.

I think I will be buying a phase converter somehow.!.

That is cheap they tried quoting me £11K. Plus the extra quarterly charge..

Three phase converters are great! If you have only one machine with only one motor then inverters are cheaper but personally I prefer the converters as they will also power all the other motors on the machine (powerfeed & suds pump) at the same time

Jo

My brother who lives in the back of beyond was quoted £67,000 for a supply and he has poles on his land, admittedly they are 125 K or thereabouts.

They queried it over a period of 3 years and got it down to £12,000 but wouldn't budge.

He finally managed to get a court order for them to remove the poles and cables from his land working with another guy over the motorway who also had poles on his land.

Cost to re-route these cables a different way and under the 1 motorway ? 1.2 million pounds.

Would have paid then to give him the electric for free, however he's still on generators.

I've got no chance of 3 phase, so was thinking- for hobby use and not continous running a 3 phase diesel generator does seem a starter. second hand for less than your quotes. Just a thought at the moment.

I have a little Mitsubishi 220Ø1 to 220Ø3 converter and it's great, there are to many benefits to list, but extra torque, soft start/stop, E-brake, and the ability to double the rated spindle speed are just a few!

I was lucky that my motor is dual voltage so happy running on 220v 3 phase with minimal rewiring and as the 220v units dont house a step up transformer it was cheap at just over £100 on flea bay 2nd hand with control panel and manual

Depending which way you go, this website was an interesting read for me as I was initially pointing myself towards a home made rotary phase, which would have allowed me to run multiple 3 phase devices - specifially all the anciliary motors on the bridgeport which would have been beneficial but is easily worked around **LINK**

- I would have set this aside some where out of the way and used it to supply a 415v Ø3 board and ring

Hello, thanks for the replies.£6000 still sounds a lot, but obviously a bit cheaper than some have been quoted, especially JS's brother !!!. Anyway, Ive got sorted out with an RPC, but thought I'd ask the electric company first.I suppose relatively speaking, the quote was as cheap as chips. Cheers.

should have gone to transwave £450 to run 2 machines £150 for electrician and they run at virtualy full power