30HP RPC questions

For the last few years I've been limping my shop along on a patched up 100A service I'm the last one on the line, and only one on the transformer that is new (I blew up old one). Service was 6awg aluminum overhead about 150'. Started out with a 15hp cont 20 for 30min VMC, on a home made 15hp rpc with a 5 and 10hp idler, and had to back the spindle acceleration down to keep it all happy, but I could run it pretty hard on most of the stuff I was doing.

Since then I've added a few other...

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