Why do you think the welder is DC? It certainly could be, but I don't think
mine is. My guess is it's a single phase unit, just as almost all coolant
pumps on 3 phase lathes are single phase. - GWE

wrote:

I do not know, but I strongly suspect the on board blade welder runs on
single phase. The reason is that if it were to be a three phase
welder, it would require extra hardware to transform the three phase
into DC to do the welding.

Dan
Terry Mayhugh wrote:

It seems to me that a static converter would nicely run one of the

surplus 3

phase vertical metal bandsaws that I often see on Ebay. But does

anyone know

if it would also run the on-board blade welder? If not, has anyone

come up

with a reasonable solution? TIA