(07-03-2015, 11:42 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: 120/18 amps translates to 1-1/2 HP. That's a hefty motor for a small mill.
It has an electronic speed controller, doesn't it. One of those where you slow it down and lose horsepower in the process. So they compensate with a bigger motor. Then at high speed, the tooling is small and unable to support all that horsepower. If that is correct (is it?), then the motor will never see full load.
Yes, that is what the website documentation claims ... 220v 9 amps and 1-1/2 HP.
To my knowledge ... based on the website documentation and looking at the pictures ... there is no electronic speed controller. It is a single phase motor. That pretty much eliminates a VFD. There also does not appear to be any controls that might be associated with any other type of speed control on the front panel.
To be clear, I did say "And as others have pointed out, it might actually start and run well enough to meet your needs until you can rewire the garage." and not "It will not run, you will burn your house down."
But we can possibly agree that running the mill in a garage that only has a single 20 amp circuit for the entire garage will be sub-optimal? And even that use case assumes that the motor can be rewired for 110v.
Arvid