Kafer_meister
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Hi everyone. I haven't been on here for ages. To cut a long story short I've moved to France with my wife and two little ones.
The place we have is an old farm, so I get a lovely big workshop, complete with 3 phase 'trickery. However, for some reason the French never seem to have very high amp supplies. It's not unusual to have a whole house on a 30amp single phase feed.
Our place has 3x20amp. So the phases have been split to run the house on 240 single and the garage has both 3 and single capability. The only downside is that my max single phase amperage is 20. This is perfectly sufficient for everything except my little R-tech plasma, which insists on a 32 amp single phase supply.
So is there anything I can do or a converter I can get to harness the power of my 3 phase or am I going to have to sell the plasma and pick up a 3 phase machine.
Thanks
Jon
The place we have is an old farm, so I get a lovely big workshop, complete with 3 phase 'trickery. However, for some reason the French never seem to have very high amp supplies. It's not unusual to have a whole house on a 30amp single phase feed.
Our place has 3x20amp. So the phases have been split to run the house on 240 single and the garage has both 3 and single capability. The only downside is that my max single phase amperage is 20. This is perfectly sufficient for everything except my little R-tech plasma, which insists on a 32 amp single phase supply.
So is there anything I can do or a converter I can get to harness the power of my 3 phase or am I going to have to sell the plasma and pick up a 3 phase machine.
Thanks
Jon