After 25 years or so of (ab)use, my old SIP 140 called it a day. Looking around for something a bit more heavy duty, I did some web searching, and bought a used and refurbished 180 amp oil filled jobbie from a company in Leicester. It arrived yesterday while I was at work, shrink wrapped and on its own little pallet! Now I'm not a seven stone weakling but it was real struggle to lft it off the pallet, this thing holds 4.5 gallons of oil, and is b****y heavy. Its a Pickhill Bantam, and I think the 180 amp rating is continuous, not intermittent, which would account for its size. It also has a 75 amp output for charging car batteries, not that I'm going to try it on mine!! The first job, after fitting a mains plug, will be to try and get some angle iron to make a trolley for it......
Regards
Philip T-E