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Re: Event Machine Shops

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Originally Posted by mman1506 View Post
Something to remember is due to the power restrictions of many venues it's not always possible to run the machine shop off of the venues power. You also usually won't get 240v to run something like a tig welder. We have to use a large diesel and a secondary gas generator to power our machine shop trailer.
Not wholly true. If you bring a VFD or a phase converter you could easily run 220v 3 phase, you just need somewhere to plug in that has a big enough breaker.
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