Yes. The drill press came from a middle school and originally had a 3 phase motor on it. I have not installed the 3 phase motor yet. I will use it to reverse the drill and to have better control of the speed without changing the belts on the pulleys. I will be adding a VFD to my table saw as well as soon as I get a chance to get it off the shelf. I have a phase converter on it now and thought it would be nice to slow it down to cut plastic. I picked up a commercial sewing machine some time back and added a 5 HP servo motor (in lieu of the clutch motor), with a VFD and added a touch screen to control it. I used a guitar volume peddle to control the speed. I programed in start sequence where as no matter how hard you tromp on the peddle it would only speed up at a pre-determined rate base on a curve. In other words; at 100 rpm's there is no delay. The faster you set the machine the more delay is applied. My intentions are to add a foot peddle to the drill press to do similar things and still keep my hands on the work.
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