Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I have an electrician coming to the house tomorrow (Thursday 2/2/2006) to give me an estimate on running a dedicated circuit (40 AMP) out of the power box and a double outlet so I can concurrently run the welder and one other shop device (vac or compressor). Luckily, my circuit panel is in the garage and on the same wall that I will be welding and where I run the compressor, so it shouldn't cost too much. As it stands now, I don't have a circuit in the garage rated higher than 15 amps and if I run my compressor and vaccum on the same circuit at the same time, I trip the breaker

Can't weld with that ... the welder alone draws 30 amps.

It's killing me ... everytime I go out in the garage to piddle around the engine for a hour here/there, I look a the welder and get trigger happy. I'm so amped (no pun intended) to get started on this.

Last edited by fastcougar; 02/02/06 01:05 AM.
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