I first ran into soft-start motors in industrial laundry equipment. It's very nearly essential there if you want the equipment to last a long time. One of the washing machines I worked on was rated for 450lbs of dry laundry. When that laundry (food service towels) was wet, the load could easily weigh 1100lbs. It was loaded into a stainless steel drum 4' deep and nearly 6' in diameter. Took a 10HP motor to spin it, and without the soft-start those motors wore out pretty quickly. My home washing machine uses soft-start, as well. Works nicely.
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On Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 12:35:39 PM CST, John Hutnick <johnhutnick@...> wrote:
How did almost every lathe owner in history get by without this?
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