need help with a 240v adapter/plug for my welder/heater
 

I need a adapter to go from my welder plug in my garage so I can plug my construction heater in.
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does anyone make one?

Re: need help with a 240v adapter/plug for my welder/heater
 

www.grainger.com

you might have to buy a female and a male, then wire them together with the correct polarity.

Re: need help with a 240v adapter/plug for my welder/heater
 

Use 240V hubbel locking plugs.

Re: need help with a 240v adapter/plug for my welder/heater
 

bare wires, jam them into the socket and duct tape the wire to the recepticle until it stops moving around. or jbweld the wires into the socket

Re: need help with a 240v adapter/plug for my welder/heater
 

I think Iam going to cut the ------- plug off and put a new one on. What do I need to know about wiring this bitch up?

Re: need help with a 240v adapter/plug for my welder/heater
 

2 hots a neutral and a common.

Re: need help with a 240v adapter/plug for my welder/heater
 

Ok if its a two vert and one ground thats 115, one vert one horiz is a 20A+ 115v, and two horiz are 220.

Simple to do single phase.
115V 15A - 50A service you use single breaker, use 10/3 or 8/3 Romex wire. On the outlet brass hooks to the black(hot) silver to the common(white)
and green to the ground.

220 50Ax2 service uses 2 breakers, use 8/3 or 4/3 Romex wire. Your black wire hooks to breaker 1, white wire to breaker 2, and bare or green to common. When wiring the plug up the black and white are hooked to the blades and common to the round.

Re: need help with a 240v adapter/plug for my welder/heater
 

4/3? WTF? That's confusing. :S

It's only a 2 wire plug. It's either 2 hots and a ground(220v) or a hot, neutral and a ground(120v).

Go to the hardware store or HomeDepot and get the right plug. It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to swap them and cost around $5. :1
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Re: need help with a 240v adapter/plug for my welder/heater
 

i have the same plug on my welder, but i didn't understand his post until he edited it after i posted.

Re: need help with a 240v adapter/plug for my welder/heater
 

There we go, Dr Boost FTW! Does it matter which hot wire goes to which termainal? The two hots on the plug are different sizes.