If you look at the last photo in my original post, you will see that the lathe controls are on a pendant, with a cable which connects to the inverter. This is located on the bench at the tailstock end of the lathe, so well out of the way. Before investing in the 3 phase inverter system, I had the original motor fail. (shorted windings on the armature). Bought a replacement motor (about 100 beer tokens) and fitted it. A few weeks later the control board died. (probably damaged by the motor failure). Rather than pay for replacement board, which are notoriously unreliable anyway, I decided to splash out on a full 3 phase inverter system. I selected a half horse power motor (about 320 watts), which was as near as I could get to the original 250 watt motor.
The lathe is actually raised up to a comfortable working height, by mounting it on two pieces of thick walled 80mm square tubing. This also enabled me to fit a home made coolant system underneath. I fitted a longer tube at the headstock end and made and fitted a 10mm plate to take the motor (see photo) The whole mod was done for reliability as I was fed up with unreliable ,expensive Chinese crap.
The lathe is actually raised up to a comfortable working height, by mounting it on two pieces of thick walled 80mm square tubing. This also enabled me to fit a home made coolant system underneath. I fitted a longer tube at the headstock end and made and fitted a 10mm plate to take the motor (see photo) The whole mod was done for reliability as I was fed up with unreliable ,expensive Chinese crap.