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.