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    Treecycle, this is a brand new lathe and it is made for the USA market by Vicmarc and therefore it is set up to run on our higher voltage residential circuits at 220 volts, so in short it is definitely set up for our voltage...I'm open to all thoughts though, and appreciate your thinking!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don Davis View Post
    I appreciate the input folks, I am still not sure if I should mess with my VFD, I'm not going to at this point.
    For what it’s worth, I agree with you. In fact, so does Vicmarc - their manual says that tampering with the invertor unit will invalidate any warranty claims.

    The change in setting that acco mentioned above is to get the display adjusted for the gearing, and as the manual shows that on the 240 the rpm display shows the actual spindle rpm, not VFD frequency, which means that your lathe does not need the VFD to be adjusted for different belt settings - there is certainly no mention of any adjustment that I’ve been able to find in the manual.

    In the interests of eliminating the obvious, I’d try it on a different power outlet just to make sure that it is getting its full 220V that it needs, but that’s a really long shot.

    Does your supplier have a demo machine that you can compare the torque with your one? Alternatively, if they have another customer who has bought one, maybe they’ll be prepared to contact them and ask if they’re willing to chat to you about it’s torque? I know that if I had one I’d be happy to allow someone with an issue to do a few comparisons. If a comparison shows that yours does have a problem, ask the supplier to swap it for a new one.



    For the record, I don’t own a Vicmarc, but I would love to, and have been looking at their specs and pricing to see just how much I’d need to sell my firstborn for to be able to afford to import one. So I downloaded the manual and read through it - in the event of me actually being able to buy one, I’d have no recourse to a local supplier and would need to be pretty certain that I wasn’t going to make a warranty claim, as the shipping costs will approach the cost of the lathe itself.

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    Hey Colin, thanks for the post--I had narrowed my choices down to a Robust-an American Beauty, a Oneway and the Vicmarc-it may sound silly but I felt like a digital speed readout was an essential feature--neither Robust or Oneway would even consider installing one on a lathe for me--even though the parts for one only would cost around $8 US, just silly they don't offer this feature IMO--now any number of woodworkers will tell you being comfortable with whatever speed you're turning at is more important than getting to a specific speed--I just don't agree with that, especially when drilling with large drill bits, i.e. Forstner bits. And the one thing I've learned for certain is that I don't have a good estimating skill for guessing what speed my lathe is turning at!! This nitty detail desire by me and the fact that my contact at Woodworkers Emporium--who import Vicmarc products--told me his personal last lathe will be a Vicmarc, and that he has turned on all of the above lathes and the Vicmarcs stood out to him as the best--I will keep trying to understand what is going on with my lathe--I am strongly considering trading up to a 300 since it is available with 3HP....next I plan to core a few bowl blanks and see what my 240 does on them, that will be a big indicator of whether I feel that I need a different lathe.

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