Re: Is it possible to combine two AC power circuits to double current? (limited household current problem)

From: Robert Monsen (rcsurname_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:49:41 -0800

mjp.metals@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm in a situation where I need around 20-24 amps continous of 110V
> (for a milling electric motor), but my strongest circuit in my breaker
> box is 20 amps. I have 3 15 amps and 2 20 amps. Is it possible to
> have the AC circuits in parallel somehow to be able to safely
> (relativly) use the combined currents? What hardware would I need? Am
> I concerned with the ac cycles being off in some way?
>
> Any other ideas?
>

Get a big DC to AC converter. ($189 here: http://tinyurl.com/5njew)

Power it off of a 12V auto battery, which you keep charged with a
trickle charger off of the AC you have. If you need more time, add
batteries.

It's not going to power the milling motor all day, but it'll work for a
while, and recharge overnight. 

-- 
Regards,
   Robert Monsen
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
     - Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon,
        on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

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