[TheForge] welder/generator

[Ries Niemi]

If it doesnt already have 110 and 220 outputs, its probably not really 
easy to pull em off- the welding current is usually DC, so if it isnt 
set up to provide AC at a fixed 110, its major modification time to get 
it to do it.

Its rare we get snow here, but today, as I sat in my hot tub with 
snowflakes drifting down on me, I looked across the bay to the island 
that Andy lives on, and it was covered in snow- looked kinda like the 
North Cascades. Normally, he lives in what we call the "Banana Belt", 
the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains, where it hardly rains at all, 
by northwest standards. And snow? its a once a year or once every other 
year thing.
But today, its a winter wonderland out there.

ries

On Nov 27, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Andy Gladish wrote:

> A rare snowfall and power outage has me thinking: How hard is it to 
> convert
> a big old P&H motorized welder to supply household power in an 
> emergency?
> Any ace electricians out there with ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy G.
> Guemes Island WA
>
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Ries Niemi
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