Voltage converter?

Post #360,732 by crazy 7/12/12 8:58:48 PM Reply	Voltage converter? I have what I BELIEVE is a 240 volt 20AMP NEMA 6-20 line. http://en.wikipedia....mplified_pins.svg It is marked AC in the breaker box and has 2 switches joined. Unless there is another ones somewhere in the house I've missed. Can't test it until I plug something in. I want to take that line and turn it into 120. I see a variety of converters in the 100-200 dollar range (cheaper ones are too low wattage). Any particular recomendations?
Post #360,734 by boxley 7/12/12 9:57:59 PM Reply	yeah, make sure its not the a/c fuse/breaker then pull the joined breakers and replace them with 2 singles. Run a separate 3 wire (hot neutral, ground) from each leg to your destination. Your house should be 240 to the fusebox then stepped down from there. Look to see how the power is distributed from the meter to the fuse box and how it breaks out the 120 legs from there. Make each side of the joined switches look like the other 120 circuits. Also you may just add a new panel to the outlet end, see diagram http://homerepair.ab...40v_breaker_4.htm you dont need a converter, just step it Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #360,735 by boxley 7/12/12 10:10:24 PM Reply	also buy a decent multi meter before you do anything electricity is pretty dumb, shove a wire up it ass and its eyes should light up. Skip had a portable drill that kept eating batteries so Doc and I rigged it to a car battery, works like a charm. Battery charger to battery to drill. Never gets tired Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep

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