wallaat wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 1:57 pm
I'd like it if they still made the P-50
It's an overall inefficient design.
For one, it weighs half a ton. Literally. It's about 1000 pounds. That makes it need to be lifted with a
very big crane and puts a lot of stress on the rotator, making it prone to rotator failure (even though I've seen a very low amount of P-50s with rotator failures).
For two, it's 50hp. A motor that big draws 65 amps while running on 480V. And that's running. I don't know what the starting amp draw is, but it's probably a lot.
And, ASC has the T-135ACDC, which has a similar output but has battery backup.
If they still sold it, it'd likely have the same fate as the 10V2T, and be discontinued because of not enough purchases, because it's three phase 480, and that power isn't exactly cheap to have installed.
"Someday soon we'll stop to ponder what on earth's this spell we're under...
We made the grade and still we wonder who the hell we are..."
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