Log Splitter
#51
Thanks DA,
That is the correct manual.
I'll have another read, the thing that confuses me is I have two wires from the start button, and two wires from the stop button. So do I put one wire from the start to S1 and one wire from the stop to S2 and then common the remaining two wires to GND?
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#52
Dave, is the "start" button a "normally open" switch and the "stop button" a "normally closed" switch?
Also, NEVER have any switches or circuit breaking device between the VFD (inverter) and the motor.
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#53
Today I decided to cut the stump of one of the oaks I took down on our front lawn.

   

Here it is ready to test the log lifter on my splitter.

   

I think I'll try and rotate it to a better position for the first split.

   

This looks a bit better.


   


That is better, still had to help complete the separation with a few whacks of the axe.

Here's the second split, things are getting a bit more workable now.

   

a little more work and we have wheel barrow overload with stackable (sorta) firewood.

   



More work than I counted on, I`ll leave the second stump til tomorrow.
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#54
Steve,
The Stop and Start push buttons I have can be either normally open or normally closed.
I understand nothing is to go in between the inverter and the motor.Thumbsup

I don't have to put in a start and stop push button at this time for the log splitter. However in the future when I change the lathe motor I will want a stop, start button, reversing switch and speed control and read out.
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PS I didn't buy the stop and start buttons for this particular job, I've had them laying about for years.
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#55
Nicely done Steve.
Your control valve is it a detent type?
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(05-30-2014, 06:47 AM)stevec Wrote: I hear ya Dave, I too am trying to "translate" the chinglish manual that came with my VFD. 17428

Steve,

What are you trying to do with your VFD? I'll try to help out.

Ed
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(05-30-2014, 01:19 PM)EdK Wrote: What are you trying to do with your VFD? I'll try to help out.
Ed
Hi Ed,
Just trying to understand how to wire in a stop and start button into the VFD, and where to connect all the wires to.
One would think in a manual of 100 pages there would be:
1) How to wire in a STOP button
2) How to wire in a START button.
3) How the wire in a REVERSING switch.
They are there just not clear to me Bash
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#58
These instruction are not for my inverter, nevertheless instructions like this I can nearly understand. I say nearly because are the start and stop buttons both normally open?

   
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(05-30-2014, 01:45 PM)DaveH Wrote: Hi Ed,
Just trying to understand how to wire in a stop and start button into the VFD, and where to connect all the wires to.
One would think in a manual of 100 pages there would be:
1) How to wire in a STOP button
2) How to wire in a START button.
3) How the wire in a REVERSING switch.
They are there just not clear to me Bash
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DaveH

Dave,

I can help you. I didn't respond because you said you weren't going to wire those in on the log splitter but on your lathe later on. I'll draw something up and post it.

Ed
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(05-30-2014, 02:11 PM)DaveH Wrote: These instruction are not for my inverter, nevertheless instructions like this I can nearly understand. I say nearly because are the start and stop buttons both normally open?


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Dave,

You always want the stop button to be a normally closed button. That way if a wire breaks in the stop button circuitry it'll look like you pressed the stop button which is what you want for safety purposes.

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