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Little Terry
Afternoon all.
Well, here goes my first question.....
I have bought a three phase car ramp and want to connect it to a single phase, 16A socket in my workshop.
I have bought a Clarke PC40 230v to 415v 3.5HP Phase Converter, to which I have fitted a 16A blue plug to go into my existing workshop wiring system. There is a four pin red socket on the front. All good so far.
I want to make up a trailing lead which is wired straight into the ramp control box, with a red plug on the end, that I can plug into the phase converter.
The ramp was removed recently and I saw it working before it was dismantled. We left the tails long when we cut them so that I knew what to connect up to where, when it came to installation. There is a Red, Blue, Yellow and Black wire coming out of the ramps control box.
On the red plug that suits the phase converter I have L1, L2, L3 and earth. I have managed to suss out that L1 = Red, L2 = Yellow, L3 = Blue, Neutral = Black and Earth = Yellow/Green. The problem is that it looks like I will have a redundant neutral wire coming out of the ramp. Am I trying to do the impossible, or do I need to do something with the neutral wire to make it work.
I can get the motor to turn by connecting up L1, L2, L3 and earth, but it won't work on the buttons. Does the spare neutral wire do something to operate the other controls in there?
sorry if it's a bit long winded and complicated.
I am just struggling to make it all work and would really appreciate some help if you don't mind please.
Thanks in advance,
Mark.
Well, here goes my first question.....
I have bought a three phase car ramp and want to connect it to a single phase, 16A socket in my workshop.
I have bought a Clarke PC40 230v to 415v 3.5HP Phase Converter, to which I have fitted a 16A blue plug to go into my existing workshop wiring system. There is a four pin red socket on the front. All good so far.
I want to make up a trailing lead which is wired straight into the ramp control box, with a red plug on the end, that I can plug into the phase converter.
The ramp was removed recently and I saw it working before it was dismantled. We left the tails long when we cut them so that I knew what to connect up to where, when it came to installation. There is a Red, Blue, Yellow and Black wire coming out of the ramps control box.
On the red plug that suits the phase converter I have L1, L2, L3 and earth. I have managed to suss out that L1 = Red, L2 = Yellow, L3 = Blue, Neutral = Black and Earth = Yellow/Green. The problem is that it looks like I will have a redundant neutral wire coming out of the ramp. Am I trying to do the impossible, or do I need to do something with the neutral wire to make it work.
I can get the motor to turn by connecting up L1, L2, L3 and earth, but it won't work on the buttons. Does the spare neutral wire do something to operate the other controls in there?
sorry if it's a bit long winded and complicated.
I am just struggling to make it all work and would really appreciate some help if you don't mind please.
Thanks in advance,
Mark.
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