[TheForge] welder/generator

[Darrell]

If you are up to doing the inverter thing, fire up the welder, set it to max 
amps and volts. Take a volt meter and read the AC volts at your lead 
connection posts. That will tell you what you have for voltage. Probably 
around 90 volts. Choose your inverter to match.
You could also do a motor generator setup using a DC motor to drive a 
generator. The trick with that would be speed control.

Darrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Gladish" <gladish at cnw.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:19 PM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] welder/generator


> 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
>
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