[TheForge] welder/generator

[Andy Gladish]

Even if I could get some kinda dc off of it I could run it through an
inverter...it's just kinda terra incognita for me. The thing is big enough
to run our whole house though. *waves to Ries across the snowy channel*

A.

>
> 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