Max amps from UK socket

[Strima]

Get plenty of flap discs for your grinder, I have similar and they spread spatter like mad!!!

 

[Dave OCD]

Why the 3 vac motors, trying to invent the mother of all Hoovers ?

 

[mickfred]

The Clarke are ok welders .top setting will blow your 13a fuses after a few minutes , but to weld 3mm not a problem . Spend a few quid and get it converted to a eurotouch, as the torch it comes with is not the best

 

[David M]

sod all that techo crap. can you come and weld me up my rear sill what some woman driver kindly bent for me?

Done a fair bit of car patching up in my time, its a bloody sh** job! get some other mug to do it for you

 

[David M]

At David M. I am only welding 3mm and its is just a small project. Building a frame out of box section thats all. 3mm box.

In my opinion you will be fine using this welder the socket circuit for this job then. Gas less mig welding isn't as neat as using argon. But if you intend to dress up the welds after you should be just fine.

 

[David M]

The Clarke are ok welders .top setting will blow your 13a fuses after a few minutes , but to weld 3mm not a problem . Spend a few quid and get it converted to a eurotouch, as the torch it comes with is not the best

I agree, I have a 180amp mig that popped fuses if I used it for too long a period of time. I've now hard wired it on its own dedicated circuit rated on a 16mcb and its been no trouble since. The standard touches are rubbish! the euro ones are definitely worth investing in.

 

[David M]

Why the 3 vac motors, trying to invent the mother of all Hoovers ?

Maybe he intends to give Dyson a run for his money, he's gonna weld 3 hoovers together.

 

[damunk]

Right. Thanks for the help on the welder.

The three motors are for a air flow bench i've built. They are all wired up to one motor controller unit.

From the motor controller unit, one cable to the wall outlet.

The motors are 240V 5amp. Will this be okay?Or I need to separate the feed into three so to use three sockets?

 

[mickfred]

This is a guess . Do the motors pull 5amps , if not good but if switched on at the same time the peaks may do . You could fit overloads to protect each motor and a stop start circuit for each motor to be able to delay the start of each motor from each other (you could design a timer to start motor 1 then motor 2 etc and just use one stop start ) . Fit estop transformer contractor etc. ) . Before even thinking about this amp test the motors