historicalarms
Ultra Member
Well we got Jim's compressor issues pretty much hashed out so on with another one.
I said in one of my post's that the topcic has renewed my interest in acquiring a small machine capable of "severing" 1/2" mild steel. Most of my cutting these days is 1/4-3/8" but if the need arises "better to have wat you need than need what you don't have".
When I first looked at Plasma, to cut 1/2" was in the $1100 to $1500 range minimum, now Amazon .ca must have seven pages of them from $250-$400 for the same size Cut50 machine.
Most of these machines are 110-220 dual power requirements, I understand how that works, its the amps requirements that confuse me. The charts show that when cutting in 110 that these machines cut up to 1/4 easily at a 30 amp setting, My shop 110 system has 20 amp breaker (keep that in mind). My welding 220 system has 40 amp breaker....here is my question, my welder runs on that 40 amps quite well, I can burn 5/32 rod at the max amp setting of 225 ( it is hard starting but will burn if I do everything right). At a lower setting of 150 or so that welder will burn 3/32 rod all day
The quandry Im in is how does that welder produce 225 amps with a 40 amp breaker feeding it and will those small multi power plasma cutters build the 50 amps required to cut 1/2 like my buzz box welder will to weld with.
I said in one of my post's that the topcic has renewed my interest in acquiring a small machine capable of "severing" 1/2" mild steel. Most of my cutting these days is 1/4-3/8" but if the need arises "better to have wat you need than need what you don't have".
When I first looked at Plasma, to cut 1/2" was in the $1100 to $1500 range minimum, now Amazon .ca must have seven pages of them from $250-$400 for the same size Cut50 machine.
Most of these machines are 110-220 dual power requirements, I understand how that works, its the amps requirements that confuse me. The charts show that when cutting in 110 that these machines cut up to 1/4 easily at a 30 amp setting, My shop 110 system has 20 amp breaker (keep that in mind). My welding 220 system has 40 amp breaker....here is my question, my welder runs on that 40 amps quite well, I can burn 5/32 rod at the max amp setting of 225 ( it is hard starting but will burn if I do everything right). At a lower setting of 150 or so that welder will burn 3/32 rod all day
The quandry Im in is how does that welder produce 225 amps with a 40 amp breaker feeding it and will those small multi power plasma cutters build the 50 amps required to cut 1/2 like my buzz box welder will to weld with.
plus I went to a technical highschool, you could major in just about any trade (electrical, HVAC, plumbing, autobody, carpentry...etc, etc)
