You can find a three phase generator being used in many different places. These pieces of equipment are so useful and so widely needed, that they are in workshops and on industrial sites across the country.
For example they will be in many factories in your own town, changing single phase power into three phase voltage for heavy motors that turn and drive the equipment needed to make the products the factory is known for.
Of course they are in machine shops, attached to lathes and drill presses. And in the same way you find phase generators in wood turning businesses.
What is more they are common in sewage plants where the heavy lifting of water and the moving of sludge puts enormous loads on the specialized pumps and automated booms that turn waste into water and clean matter. Three phase generators are a common factor in all these places.
A rotary phase converter is a very useful piece of equipment.
With one of these you can run tools and motors that need three phase loads to work properly, even when you only have single phase power coming out of the socket in your workshop or building site.
Here’s how the converter works. It accepts single electric phase power from the supply and leads it to a rotating three phase induction motor. sometimes these motors are called “idler” motors, since they spin rather than drive anything. The rotors in this motor turn as two terminals get energy and then induces current in its third terminal when that is shifted 120 degrees in either direction from the voltage between the first two terminals.
In this way, three phase electricity is generated. And you may then hook that up to the equipment that will not run at peak performance on single phase current.