I went and picked up this welder today, it's made by lincoln. It uses a 3 phase 3600 rpm motor to drive a DC generator, and looks kinda like a fire hydrant! It's got two controls on it, one for voltage, and the other for current. It says it's a constant current type power source. They were using it for stick tig, and stick welding where it came from. It came with a cart that has a spot for a gas cylinder. It says 200 amps on it, for power output. I'm going to head out to snap a picture of it, and get the model information off of it here in a bit. It's a HEAVY PIG, had to lift it with the bucket on the tractor to unload it!
This brings me to questions, I was thinking about putting an RPC on it to power it, but it draws 16 amps, so a 10 hp RPC should work wouldn't it?? Do you think I could get by with a starting cap just to tinker with it until I get an RPC built? Anybody ever seen one of these, or used one? I figured the worst case scenario is I put a gasoline engine on it, and make a genewelder out of it.
This brings me to questions, I was thinking about putting an RPC on it to power it, but it draws 16 amps, so a 10 hp RPC should work wouldn't it?? Do you think I could get by with a starting cap just to tinker with it until I get an RPC built? Anybody ever seen one of these, or used one? I figured the worst case scenario is I put a gasoline engine on it, and make a genewelder out of it.