Welder: Pulled the Pin

[RonL]

After much research, I pulled the pin and bought a welder. Went with a Miller Big Blue 500. 500 amp at 100%, 12 KW 120/240 single phase, 20 KW three phase, 47 HP Perkins turbo diesel, and a 25 gallon fuel tank. The 20 KW three phase was important to me.
Waiting for it to come in now.

RonL

 

[RonR]

Wow, that sounds like a serious welder!

Ron

 

[RonL]

Ron

The welder part is probably more welder than I'll ever need, but at least I won't have to worry about duty cycle. The three phase power was critical in that I wanted to run a machine that was close to the limits of the welder. And, it will run the biggest plasma cutter. The machine will also be my emergency generator.
I suspect the machine will long outlive me.

RonL

 

[RonL]

Well, it finally came in. What a monster. Started it up and that Perkins purrs like a kitten. Impressive machine. I'm charging the battery for the digital camera. I'll post pictures tomorrow.

RonL

 

[Shimon]

We just had one of those come through our shop for some warranty work. Sure is a beast. That Perkins is actually a Shibaura engine which is a very good, reliable engine. I guess Perkins and Shibaura are now the same company and CAT owns them all. Anyway, I wish I had one of those...I'm blue with envy.

 

[CTyler]

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RonL )</font>


ROTFLMAO......Ok Tim... using a 12kw generator to charge 2000ma batteries /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[RonL]

That would be a little excessive.

I also bought a Hypertherm 1650 plasma cutter. I wired that up to Big Blue today and cut up some steel. I bought a one inch by three inch by twenty foot piece of ar400 steel to use as teeth on a dozer root rake. Once I got used to it the plasma cutter did a good job of cutting the steel. Only problem I had was that my little Hitachi portable compressor could not keep up. Naturally, my big compressor is up at my property in New Hampshire. What Lincoln does that I wish Miller did is put a full output three phase plug on the front panel. Miller requires you to hard wire to the three phase. I'm going to run a wire out to a plug once I get the machine set up.

Didn't get a chance to take pictures today.

RonL