Lenco and Garrard external ac power supply


Been thinking about this recently...Does it even make sense to try to find someone willing to build a power supply for turntables such as the Lenco L75 or Garrard 301 when they were made to just be plugged directly into the wall ac in the first place??

Loricroft makes ones for the 301 that convert ac to dc then back to "perfect" ac again which is what something like a Pure Power ac line conditioner/regenerator does. The neat thing about the Loricroft is that you can apparently adjust the 301's speed with it. It would be trick to find something like that for a Lenco 75 that was not so expensive.

PS audio used to make some big line re-conditioners that did the same sort of thing I think back in the day but I don't know if they are making the same equipmnet still. Furman and a couple others I think do similar things also.

What would be neat would be to find a ac regenerator that you could use to control the speed of either a 301, 401 or Lenco 75. Since they are all AC and can run at 110 or 220 volts maybe its possible, I don;t know but I know the Loricroft controller is way way expensive is it really worth $4000 bucks?? Thats almost as much as a restored 301 or top Lenco....geesh

Maybe you could just save the 4000 bucks and build one??/ Could it really be that tough?..
jeremy72
Have you checked at LencoHeaven, because someone there was / is designing a motor controller.
I noticed that. Still on the drawing board, I think. Thanks to Vetterone, I can conceive of building one from a frequency generator (saw a very cheap solid state module on eBay with a built-in digital read-out) driving an amplifier that can push ca 120V into whatever is the load of the Lenco motor. (I would need to measure that.) Might be fun to try that.
It has been told on lenco heaven that it was mainly for convenience when used with a PTP,as you can change speed at distance.For the sound not a great difference so not a replacement unit for the loricraft.
"It has been told on lenco heaven that it was mainly for convenience when used with a PTP,as you can change speed at distance.For the sound not a great difference so not a replacement unit for the loricraft."

Dear Gilles, I don't get your point. If the motor controller is properly designed to match the motor it is controlling (and this is a big "IF"), then the motor controller ought to confer all benefits at once. If the Lenco Heaven controller is badly designed to work with a single-phase induction motor (e.g., the Lenco motor), then I do see your point, but I cannot imagine that the guys on that forum would be pursuing such a goal. In fact, I believe the Garrard motor is a 2-phase induction motor. (Doesn't Garrard use a capacitor to split the AC phase?) Which has always made me wonder whether the Loricraft controller is properly matched for use with the Lenco motor.
One of the answer is there
http://www.lencoheaven.net/forum/index.php?topic=2042.1050
There is the answer from jlovey and his yoda lenco.
Go down the page to find jlovey's answer and some others.