Originally Posted by
Chip Lindley
"might have"...Hmm...
In 25 years I have never suffered motor meltdown that lack of a bleed resistor could produce.
Also, I have never had my shop blow up from static discharge could produce in the DC ducting. Am I just LUCKY or what???
This is perhaps the best indication that this bleeder stuff is BS. Single phase induction motors are ubiquitous - they're everywhere (such as in your clothes washer and dryer) - and yet we don't see these motors dying at a significant rate. Induction motors are extremely reliable and have been for with us since about 1890. If they needed bleeder resistors they would have them by now - we wouldn't be hearing about them for the first time here on this forum.
Complete, absolute, total BS.
Mike
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