I did finally finish this past week. Unfortunately, I only get to work on the shop around one day a week so it's a slow process.
I managed to install the brackets and motor in one day as shown in my first photo. (Lucky I had a scissor lift, it would be hard to install without one) Then the next day out, I ran EMT conduit, installed the VFD on the motor frame, pulled three 10ga wires approx 60' (220v Black hot/Red hot/Green ground, no neutral) to the VFD, wired jumpers from the VFD to the motor and had to change the motor post jumpers from default setting of 480 to 240. Lastly and possibly the most annoying, was the remote control panel is powered/controlled from the VFD via a Cat5 cable. I had to cut and strip the Cat5 wires to install each wire to the VFD terminals, working in a tight spot and with those tiny wires was a pain. I did all this in about 6 hrs or so.
The last challenge was the settings of the VFD, out of the box it was giving me overcurrent errors when trying to run. Reviewing the VFD manual, my friend who was helping me found that the current settings were not right, we made that correction and she runs like a champ. I ran it for hours at 100%, which should be around 110 rpm at 60 hz. It made a huge different to the feel like temperature in the building.
I only took video of it running after I finished and it's from an iphone and wouldn't load here, so I took a screen shot of the video to share here. Overall, I'm happy with the purchase so far. My friend who helps me from time to time out there was saying I should have installed this before I even put up the lights. Maybe he's right, but I'm just glad I have it up now in time for the worst heat in Texas.
