So, made a mistake and I jumped on the tax season sale earlier this year. I had poured concrete for the new shop and thought I would have it all running before august. Military called me, not once but several times for short stints and it threw me off. I’m looking at almost May now before I can get the shop with 220 going. My garage is big enough to build the XR in, I was just hoping one of yall used 110 for a bit to run a smaller air compressor and plasma cutter. I only need to cut 16 and 18g for the moment and I can run three different breakers for computer, compressor and plasma cutter. Any luck in someone here having done it for a few months?
you can do it for small programs with thin gauge stuff. I ran the biggest husky 110 air compressor home depot has for a long time with my plasma cutter but not with a CNC table. i don’t think it would keep up with long programs or really long sustained cuts.
i have never run a 110 plasma cutter but I suspect for 16 and 18 ga it would be fine.
if that’s all i had, I can assure you I would try.
Im sure that you will feel extremely motivated to get the 220 done because you will quickly find the limits of 110.
if you have a 16ga scrap do a spiral cut as tight and long as you can to see how long your setup can sustain a cut before it gives out and you lose your arc. then you will know.
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Thats wonderful advice. I’m looking at the primeweld 60 since it is both 110 and 220. I can steal 220 from my dryer when running. My breaker box is outside. I’ve got an outdoor closest right next to it so I’m super tempted to run 220 to the closet down and dirty, run 100 foot of 1/2 inch hose around the house. Not ideal, but surely better than 110 and I won’t be buying two air compressors. I started assembling the plasma table last night. I’ll find out and report back. It’s 30 days until primeweld has the machine torch on hand.