guythatbrews
Titanium
- Joined
- Dec 14, 2017
- Location
- MO, USA
Seen that. Shop vac in the tape reader outlet that is clearly marked 5A. Duh, what happened?Speaking of holy smokes, I think they finally changed the ratings, but remember when
Shop Vac and others had those insanely high HP ratings? That was locked rotor current, that is basically what it would pull before it goes up in smoke due to a bearing failure or the like. So you have like a 10 gallon vacuum 8hp rated that will plug into a typical 15 amp 110v outlet that can pull almost 50 amps if it is ready to blow up. I do think the plug on that machine did say 5 amp max, but would accept a typical 15 amp plug.
This was an old machine "back in the day" even though it had RS-232 that outlet was for a tape reader. I suppose that was the 1980 (when the machine was made) version of the lap top.
These days we run 110v drop to each machine. Clearly mark by the machine disconnect that the 110v outlets have separate disconnect. Keeps cords off the floor better, seems cleaner and easier.