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Originally Posted by HardcoreZ28
A friend of mine gave me an old air compressor for the shop that needed a rebuild and I'm almost done with it. I have some questions about the motor on it though. He wasn't sure if it was two or three phase. Is there any way for me to look at the wiring on it and tell? My shop isn't wired for three phase so if the motor is in fact three phase would it be more economical to get a two phase motor or get a transformer for the three phase unit?
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three phase is not hard to wire, you can always run a new line from your panel if you have enough room in it. I would say change one of the receptacles over from a two phase to a three but im sure most of them are run together so that wont work, take the receptacles off and see if 2 wires are running into the box or if it's just one.
the cheapest way would be just to run a new line IMO