Jim Eylander began his electrical contracting business in 1954 when the only requirements to be an electrical contractor to be licensed as an electrical contractor in the state of Washington
was only $65 for license and bond.
In the year 1961, he added an electrical motor repair and sales of electric motors
which became a profitable business.
In the 1970s he saw advertising of phase convertors so he bought to see how they were made. The phase convertor came and when they opened it up, they found it was sealed with a tar mixture and they could not see how it was made.
We were selling new motors. We had purchased a 5 HP I Phase motor from Westinghouse. When it arrived, it had a 2137 frame with a large box mounted where the power entered the motor. All 5 HP I Phase motors came with a 1847 frame and this motor had the large 2IT T frame.
We found in this box a start capacitor, a potential relay and a run capacitor. We took this motor apart and found it was a 7 1/2 HP 3 Phase motor which would yield 5 HP of a I Phase 5 HP motor. We had found the formula for building Phase convertors.
We began building two types of phase convertors 'S' Models for single motors which will produce 80% of 3 phase power. They have been very successful if the motors they are used on if they were built before the year 2000, when new energy efficiency motors became available. Our 'S' models will only yield 60% power on energy efficient motors.
Our rotory phase convertors do very well on all three phase motors. They are in use in all states including Alaska, Hawaii, and British Columbia.
We have not changed our design in over 40 years of building phase convertors. We do not use logic or printed circuit boards in building our phase convertor. They are made to last.
We have built 'S' model convertors up to 30 HP. We have built rotory convertors for up to 100 HP loads.
Electrical contractors are encouraged to buy through your electrical distributors. We will help them and you size the proper convertors for your job.