Thanks guys. From what I've understand from reading is that with it's vintage and amperage and being a copper core, it doesn't have a cooling fan. I'll need to pop the top and doublecheck. The only noise I hear is a light buzzing from, I believe the transformer.
Unfortunately I've got a little bit of a setback. I just went out to look over the shop/shed and found that there is no 220 outlet out there. My landlord said that he had an old welder he used and it ran off of 220. He used it in his shed back when he was living in the house we are renting off him. I traced a heavy duty wire from the sub-panel out there and found that it ended, hanging on a post, with it’s wires taped over with electrical tape and no box in sight. I am thinking he just grabbed the box and transplanted it to his new house when he moved in there. To say I was more than a little bummed out would be an understatement. But when your getting as nice a house as we have for as cheap a rent as we are then there isn’t really much you can complain about. I will probably be broaching the subject with him in the next couple weeks or so. I’d even be willing to take a stab at wiring the outlet but don’t feel comfortable doing it on someone else’s house.
Alas, it just makes me pick up the real estate books and give them a good look. Which usually educes vomiting and assorted cursing and swearing over the steep housing prices in our area (for what all is in the area).
Anyway thanks a ton guys and I’ll let you know when I get this puppy up and running fulltime.
-Dan
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