A guy at work has just bought a welder and asked if i could put a plug on it and get an extension lead for it.
The manual says you will need a commando plug for it - which is ok, but he says he wants an extension lead with a BS1363 plug on one end an a commando socket at the other end. He wants to be able to plug it into a normal socket to power his welder and says that that was what he did with his old one before it got nicked.
Can this be right? The welder draws 29.3 amps and doesn't it have to be on a C breaker due to the high starting current?
The manual says you will need a commando plug for it - which is ok, but he says he wants an extension lead with a BS1363 plug on one end an a commando socket at the other end. He wants to be able to plug it into a normal socket to power his welder and says that that was what he did with his old one before it got nicked.
Can this be right? The welder draws 29.3 amps and doesn't it have to be on a C breaker due to the high starting current?