Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 24 07:18:07 EST 2020 | kylehunter
> If your ovens are 480V you may be able to convert > them back to 240V by changing out the elements? > There are industrial suppliers for oven elements > out there. sarason Yes that is true, our dealer can do that, but due to cost
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 25 17:03:33 EST 2020 | kylehunter
LOL! Good to know! Yeah, we have 3Ph with a high leg, so technically at 240V, so we should be fine. Since nobody has really mentioned a real preference with the ovens, is it kinda like what I thought at first? That an 8 zone oven is an 8 zone oven.
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 24 01:31:45 EST 2020 | sarason
If your ovens are 480V you may be able to convert them back to 240V by changing out the elements? There are industrial suppliers for oven elements out there. sarason
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 24 17:02:45 EST 2020 | kylehunter
So do you guys really not like running oven's this large at 240V? Or do you just not like the two ovens specifically that I mentioned?
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 25 17:07:01 EST 2020 | dontfeedphils
In my experience Heller makes a great, no frills oven that just runs. The only Vitronics oven I've dealt with was over-engineered and gave me nothing but headaches.
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 25 15:41:03 EST 2020 | SMTA-Alex
The ovens you're looking at need 100 amps of 480, 200 amps of 240. Do you have that extra power available in your building? You can go with a step-up transformer to convert 240V to 480V. My understanding is that ovens run more efficiently on 480V.
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 25 16:45:45 EST 2020 | stephendo
One thing that you do not want to do is run a 240V oven at 220V. One place I worked a few lifetimes ago had an oven that had five top zones and only two on the ends on the bottom. It was something like 440V but supplied with 408V. It took a long long
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 01 12:26:37 EDT 2020 | proceng1
We have 3 Heller 1800 units. They run great. Our building is 208 3ph. One of ours is running 480v, so we bought a transformer to convert. I am not familiar with the other oven you mentioned.
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 24 17:06:36 EST 2020 | emeto
It looks like one oven is 10years newer than the other, so if we assume same maintenance routine you should get another 10 years if life on it. On the TH side, you know your board complexity - for me wave have much more value than a Selective. Selec
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 22 11:37:00 EST 2020 | kylehunter
Hey all, I've made a post in the past about us expanding to a new space, but I wanted to do a new post with specific questions. We currently have a DEK 265, Phillips Opal Xii, and a Heller 1500. Our main reason for expanding is to have a lead-free
