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Help running this 220v machine in my house
themadhippy:
--- Quote ---this machine can work in 120v in USA but with converter adapter but it wont be then 3000watts then, it will be only 1400watts or so.
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If its 3kw on 240v its gonna be nearer 750w on 120v
Someone:
--- Quote from: administr4tor on January 09, 2023, 08:44:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: IanB on January 09, 2023, 08:35:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: administr4tor on January 09, 2023, 08:26:18 pm ---is there any adapter to do that? or I can make my own :)
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I would recommend to cut the plug off and wire up a proper NEMA plug that fits your socket. Adapters are always dodgy. If the NEMA plug has both neutral and ground pins, make sure to connect the green/yellow earth wire to ground and not to neutral.
FYI, I have done this with a 240 V, 3000 W appliance of my own, using a NEMA 6-20 plug and socket.
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please can you draw a picture in paint or anywhere so I can follow it what to do with that chinese pin and 4 holes NEMA.
Appreciate it.
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Hire an electrician to rewire the plug.
so many ways to fail and cause a danger, that cannot be communicated in a picture marked-up in paint
IanB:
Also bear in mind that the color coding of wires in North America is different from what may be found in other parts of the world.
On an imported 220/230/240 V appliance you will commonly find brown=line, blue=neutral, green/yellow=earth. In North America you will find black=line 1, red=line 2, white=neutral, green=ground.
So the way you typically wire up a 240 V plug is brown to L1, blue to L2, green to E, nothing to N.
james_s:
--- Quote from: administr4tor on January 09, 2023, 08:44:13 pm ---please can you draw a picture in paint or anywhere so I can follow it what to do with that chinese pin and 4 holes NEMA.
Appreciate it.
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If it is not obvious by now, I would suggest finding someone knowledgeable to help you. The most important thing is to connect the green wire to the ground terminal, in any plug that screw should be colored green so that it's obvious. The other two wires in the cord will probably be brown and blue, those go to the two live terminals in the plug, it doesn't matter which way around.
Ian.M:
Its a Chinese local market budget steam cleaner built into a fricking toolbox!
What even makes you think its got a ground wire?
I'd also bet the trigger switch on the gun isn't IP68 sealed, and if that's a 240V circuit (rather than isolated low voltage), I wouldn't care to use it.
It needs to be internally inspected by a competent appliance repair tech, and probably rewired to bring it up to western safety standards, if that's even possible.
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