Converting oil cooled welding machine to generate ac 220

[Mhlangaah]

How do you convert an oil cooled welding machine to generate ac 220 volts

 

[Mhlangaah]

Someone told me that I can use an oli cooled welding machine to generate ac power using batteries and solar panels

 

[JimB]

Someone told me that I can use an oli cooled welding machine to generate ac power using batteries and solar panels

The why don't you ask the person that told you this?

JimB

 

[Mhlangaah]

The person is not open he said he can't share the information

 

[alec_t]

Welcome to ETO!
Depending on the welder design you might, in principle, be able to use it as the basis of a DC-to-AC inverter. Such a project is not for the faint-hearted. There are numerous threads about problems people experience when trying to make inverters.

 

[Mhlangaah]

Ohh okay Thanks for the information
How do I convert it to be an inverter
Do I use one of the Amp output as DC input

 

[Les Jones]

The only oil filled welders I have seen have just been transformers with some means of stabilising the current. (Magnetic shunts or added inductance.) There is a remote possibility that an inverter welder could be converted to convert DC to AC but I think it would be more expensive than buying an inverter. The fact that you think you can use a transformer with DC indicates that your electrical knowledge is far too limited to even consider designing the modifications to an inverter welder.

Les.