I purchased a single phase Felder AD 941 with a 4 horse motor.
For those not familiar with the Felder line thats a 16" jointer planer combo. I opted for the spiral cutter head and i assume that will work in my favor with the smaller motor.
I only ask as i was talking to a Felder service tech and he was surprised i purchased such a beefy machine with only a 4 horse motor.
Being the machine will live in a home shop single phase only made sense to me. As i understand it if i went 3 phase and static phase converter i would had needed a 7 horse machine to get 4 horse all said and done.
Really my concern is with future purchase. Namely a oscillating edge/spindle sander and a sliding table saw shaper combo machine. Is the 4 horse gonna cut it on all these machines?