Ernie and/or anyone else who may have some input,
In light of the problems we are having with the new Maxstar, I wanted to seek your advice before we have any more problems.
I was perusing your site yesterday
How do you get your argon tank in and out? We, a very interested fellow employee and myself, can not see any way other than straight out of the top unless the bars in the back are removable. Also, do you consider the bottle to be safe being free standing like that?
You mention that you have 3 power cords at 25' each. The literature on this 150 says the max length for a #10 wire is 47'. I plan on purchasing
50' of 10/3 cable, use 40' for the extension cord itself and cut up the remaining for use as "pig tails", sound OK? I like the way you used what we call a "dryer plug" (the gray one), I may copy that if your patent will allow. :) Due to the inexperience electrically of some of my fellow workers, I will probably only make connectors to fit in 115V outlets. We have an odd 20A/230V/3 Phase connector in the shop that I would like to be able to power the Maxstar from while in house. IF I can make this connection idiot-proof enough for general use I will, otherwise we will only use it on 115V.My coworker wants to build a "case" for the Maxstar itself that will attach to our hand truck and only expose the power and gas outlet in the rear and the lead plug in and controls in front. This will be mostly an anti theft measure, but I'm thinking that if we utilize a tool tub like you did we could fit all the welder and all of its parts and pieces into it. I personally don't care for the case it came in, having to cram all of the leads into that hole is a real PITA and what the hell is up with them sending a regulator out with it? I see a flow meter purchase in our near future.
Well, this has gotten to be alot longer than I had planned, and I probably haven't asked half of the questions I need to.
Thanks in advance to anyone brave enough to reply. If we come up with anything that seems useful I will try to get some pics for the dropbox.
Regards, Jim C Roberts