I was curious as a buddy has his blue machine running on household current, but at lower power settings.
Can this be done with your machines?
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I was curious as a buddy has his blue machine running on household current, but at lower power settings.
Can this be done with your machines?
Check the specs to see if they have dual voltage.
http://www.everlastgenerators.com/
They are not listed as such, but the blue machine isn't either.
I have personally run the Power Plasma 50 and the I-Tig 200 on 110V. On some of the newer machines (the 2 mentioned above for sure) where the power cord goes in is marked 1X110-220, but the official placard only lists 220. The PP50 worked OK up to about 20 – 25 amps and after that will not support the plasma flow and blows out but cuts thin stuff OK. The Tig, eh it might work in a pinch but not to stabile and the amp meter reads way more than it’s putting out, making it pretty much useless. This is not official from Everlast just my experimenting.
As ray said, certain smaller units will operate on 110V, but they are limited in performance.
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Originally Posted by Ray
This was mainly for the tigs, but I thought the PP50 was listed as able to run on 110.
I don't need that much of a cutter, but the pilot arc feature makes it nice.
Any output on 110V would be limited on any brand and duty cycle is severely curtailed. Even on a Miller, its a get by.
I fully understand that the machine was not rated for this.Quote:
Originally Posted by performance
And as you stated, its just to do in a pinch.