Installing a frequency inverter

[oses.ogun]

Hi all,
New user here
What are the advantages of installing a frequency inverter for an already installed SSR air blower?

 

[Bobbywhy]

Hi oses.ogun! Welcome to Physics Forums!

You have not given us enough information. What is an SSR air blower? How does it run now? What voltage, what frequency? Why would you want to change the frequency that powers it?

Also, it appears you have conflated two different functions: "frequency inverter". There exist frequency converters which change the input frequency to a different output frequency, and there are inverters which convert DC to AC. It's not useful to conflate terms because it causes misunderstanding and confusion.

Please supply us with all the details of what exists now, and what you are proposing to change. Members here are ready and willing to help you discover what you need.

Bobbywhy

 

[Baluncore]

Is an SSR a solid state relay being used to switch an air blower ?
If you mean a “frequency converter” then I assume you want a VFD (variable frequency drive) so you can change the speed of your blower.

 

[berkeman]

Is an SSR a solid state relay being used to switch an air blower?

Or could be Subsynchronous Resonance...

* SSR S.S. Rajendran (actor)
* SSR SACEUR Strategic Reserve
* SSR Safety, Security and Reliability
* SSR Sales and Service Representative
* SSR Salud Sexual y Reproductiva (Spanish: Sexual and Reproductive Health; also seen as SSYR)
* SSR Same-Sex Relationship
* SSR Santiago Street Racing (Chile; forum)
* SSR Satellite System Receiver
* SSR Scalable Sampling Rate (audio coding)
* SSR Schedule Status Report
* SSR School of Sound Recording
* SSR School Science Review (UK journal of the Association for Science Education)
* SSR Scientists for Social Responsibility (UK)
* SSR Scottish Society of Rehabilitation
* SSR Search and Rescue Region
* SSR Search Space Reduction
* SSR Secondary School Report (college application form)
* SSR Secondary Sex Ratio (births ratio)
* SSR Secondary State Road/Route
* SSR Secondary Supply Route
* SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar
* SSR Secondary System Relief
* SSR Secret Soi Riders (motorcycle club)
* SSR Secure Storage Room
* SSR Security Sector Reform
* SSR Security Survey Report
* SSR Segment Size Ratio
* SSR Selective Service Registration
* SSR Self Study Review (various organizations)
* SSR Self Sufficiency Rate (agriculture)
* SSR Self Supporting Runflat (tires)
* SSR Self-Service Restaurant
* SSR Semiannual Revision
* SSR Separations Summary Registers (Telcordia)
* SSR Serial Status Register (computer programming)
* SSR Series Storage Router (Cisco)
* SSR Server-Side Rules (computing)
* SSR Service Sales Representative
* SSR Service Specific Resource
* SSR Seven Star Reaf (anime)
* SSR Shallow Seismic Reflection (geology)
* SSR Ship(s) Selected Record(s)
* SSR Side-mode Suppression Ratio (SONET)
* SSR Sigma Sigma Rho (sorority)
* SSR Silent Sustained Reading
* SSR Silver Saddle Ranch (Carson City, NV)
* SSR Simple Sequence Repeat (molecular biology)
* SSR Single Sequence Repeat
* SSR Single Service Responsibility (claims)
* SSR Single Stream Recycling (various locations)
* SSR Sit Down Shut Up and Read
* SSR Site Suitability Report
* SSR Site Survey and Recommendation
* SSR Site Survey Report
* SSR Slope Stability Radar
* SSR Slow-Strain Rate (test)
* SSR Small Scale Renewable (energy system)
* SSR Small Screen Rendering (Opera browser on small screen devices)
* SSR Small Ships Register
* SSR Smart Sonic Receiver (Kyocera)
* SSR SmartSwitch Router (Cabletron)
* SSR Sniper Support Rifle
* SSR Social Security Review
* SSR Société Suisse de Radiodiffusion (French)
* SSR Society for Solidarity and Reconstruction (India)
* SSR Society for the Study of Reproduction
* SSR Society of Skeletal Radiology
* SSR Sociology and Social Research
* SSR Software Service Request
* SSR Software Specification Review
* SSR Software Status Review
* SSR Soins de Suite et de Réadaptation (French: After Care and Rehabilitation)
* SSR Solar Sun Rings
* SSR Solid State Radar
* SSR Solid State Recorder
* SSR Solid State Relay
* SSR Somatostatin Receptor
* SSR South Saskatchewan Regiment (Canada)
* SSR Soviet Socialist Republic
* SSR Spacely's Sprocket Rockets (amusement park ride)
* SSR Special Security Representative
* SSR Special Service Request (airlines)
* SSR Special Support & Reconnaisance (Danish military)
* SSR Specific Sentence Report (UK criminal courts)
* SSR Specification Status Report
* SSR Speed Star Racing
* SSR Spin-Stabilized Rocket
* SSR Sport Science Research
* SSR Sprayless Scratch Repair (Lewisville, TX)
* SSR Stackable Switch Router (Avici)
* SSR Staff Support Room (US NASA)
* SSR Stainless Steel Rat (science fiction)
* SSR Standard Service Revolver (military or law enforcement firearm)
* SSR Standard Statistical Region
* SSR Standing Seam Roof (metal roofing system)
* SSR Static Shift Register (electronics, logical devices)
* SSR Step Step Revolution
* SSR Stock Status Report
* SSR Stock Superstars Report (investing)
* SSR Stolen Sharpie Revolution (web zine)
* SSR Student Shared Resource
* SSR Sublime Soul Radio
* SSR Submarine Radar Picket
* SSR Submission Summary Report (mortgages)
* SSR Subsea Release (offshore drilling)
* SSR Subsynchronous Resonance (power)
* SSR Subsystem Summary Report
* SSR Successful School Restructuring (Wisconsin)
* SSR Successive Survivable Routing (IEEE)
* SSR Sum of Squares due to Regression
* SSR Sum of the Squared Residual
* SSR Super Sport Roadster (Chevrolet)
* SSR Super Steep Retrograde
* SSR Superintendencia de Seguros y Reaseguros (Banco Central del Uruguay)
* SSR Supplemental Security Income Record (Social Security Administration)
* SSR Supplier Selection Record
* SSR Supply Services Requirement
* SSR Supply Support Request
* SSR Surface Search Radar
* SSR Surgical Sperm Retrieval
* SSR Sustained Silent Reading
* SSR Switch Systems Requirements (Sprint)
* SSR Switching Series Regulator
* SSR Symantec Security Response
* SSR Symposium on Software Reusability (ACM symposium)
* SSR System Requirements Review
* SSR System Service Representative
* SSR System Specification Review
* SSR System Status Register
* SSR System Status Review
* SSR System Summary Report
* SSR System Supportability Review
* SSR Système, Sécurité et Réseaux (French: System, Security and Networks)

 

[Bobbywhy]

Wow, berkeman! Great list of possibilities!

 

[Baluncore]

We are assuming that there is no typo in "SSR".
But only the four following are possible in this context.
* SSR Secure Storage Room
* SSR Solid State Relay
* SSR Subsynchronous Resonance (power)
* SSR Switching Series Regulator

 

[Bobbywhy]

We are assuming that there is no typo in "SSR".
But only the four following are possible in this context.
* SSR Secure Storage Room
* SSR Solid State Relay
* SSR Subsynchronous Resonance (power)
* SSR Switching Series Regulator

OK, Baluncore, how shall we choose from those 4 possibilities so as to respond to the OP?

 

[Baluncore]

OK, Baluncore, how shall we choose from those 4 possibilities so as to respond to the OP?

We do not have to choose, we wait for oses.ogun to reply with a clarification. How I responded at the time is in post 3 of the topic.

Is an SSR a solid state relay being used to switch an air blower ?

We cannot yet know if SSR is a typo or maybe something not in berkeman's list.

In my experience it is often necessary to guess and question in order to progress a topic.

Very few OPs completely specify the problem. If they did, the questioner would have understood the subject and so not have needed to ask the question. oses.ogun was obviously so involved in the problem when asking the question that alternative interpretations were not obvious.

I thought the aim was to help and encourage new members rather than to do a snow job on their first post and topic. Anyhow, we have no choice but to wait for a clarification.

 

[Bobbywhy]

Baluncore, I agree with you completely. Clearly to be of any use to the OP we need clarification from her. Excuse me if I appeared to be critical...that was not my intention. I also agree with you about our aims here on Physics Forums. Hopefully oses.ogun will see our exchanges here and explain the project in more detail.

Cheers, Bobbywhy

 

[russ_watters]

I vote "solid state relay", but in any case, yes, we definitely need more info about how the fan is operating.