Elecktri****y Help.

[Bobcat]

I have a tractor broken down on a job site, it needs welding on a steering arm. All the job site has is an 110 outlet, I need to convert that to 220,all of the adapters I've found on line are a couple of hundred bucks


Signed shocked in KW

 

[Ratickle]

I have a tractor broken down on a job site, it needs welding on a steering arm. All the job site has is an 110 outlet, I need to convert that to 220,all of the adapters I've found on line are a couple of hundred bucks


Signed shocked in KW

Make your own, it's not that big of a deal.....

You have to make sure the 110 comes from the opposite sides of a 220 main. Breakers on one side of the panel are almost always one leg, breakers on the other side are the other leg. Get 110 from each leg, join it into a single 220 outlet, you've got it.

So, the 110 will have a white nuetral, black positive, copper ground. 220 has a white nuetral, black positive, red positive, copper ground. Grab a 110 from one side of the panel, another from the other side. One of the 110 positive blacks will replace the red, the other will stay, the two nuetrals and the two grounds will twist together and become one each. Or, you could forget that and just use one each, wire nut the other two so nothing happens.

Connect them into the 220 outlet you buy at Menards for $5, and go to it.....

There must be instructions on the web somewhere. I'll look too.

 

[Ratickle]

If amps is not an issue.. is this outlet isolated. (the only one in the circut) If so... replace outlet with 220 V type. Connect white wire to second hot side., Change breaker to 2 pole... Remove white wire from buss and apply to breaker.. your done...


Makes sense too if it's the only thing on the circuit.


Another way this brings up though. What kind of Circuit Breaker Box, pick up the two pole breaker for 220, a 10' piece of 220 4wire, an outlet, wire it up, pull two 110 breakers, plug in your 220 breaker, weld, replace.

 

[Buoy]

yep, what Paul said.
Most expensive thing will be the copper wire itself if you need to go any distance...

 

[Ratickle]

Or, I happen to have a very nice 110 wire feed welder, stop by and borrow it......:sifone:

 

[Bobcat]

The decision now is to take the stick welder back to the Home Depot and exchange it for an Mig Welder, about a hundred more, and it runs on 110.:willy_nilly:

Which will work out better in the long run, I can weld up scaffolding.

 

[ROGUE]

The decision now is to take the stick welder back to the Home Depot and exchange it for an Mig Welder, about a hundred more, and it runs on 110.:willy_nilly:

Which will work out better in the long run, I can weld up scaffolding.

The stick welder is much better for structural stuff. Mig welding can be done well but for the most part its not much better than caulking.