Sean,
Assuming your left and right are looking at the wiring connection side of the plug then yes but look here too.
Note: I'm NOT a sparky!
The 'normal extension lead' bit is bothering me a bit. I'm not familiar with your welder but the usual deal with a 200A inverter or similar is for it to be fused with a 'slow 16A' breaker- they can draw quite a bit of juice for very short periods of time. Taking my Lincoln as an example, machine has a input rating of 6600W (around 28A max draw on 230V) but a 16A slow fuse is specified along with 2.5mm2 flex (same size wiring as a normal ringmain). As long as 2.5mm wiring is used mine will happily run flat out from 13A plug without blowing fuses/tripping breakers. Try and use a 1.5mm extension lead and it'll pop fuses constantly (found that out on a mobile job when my requests were ignored and the sparky ignored/forgot about the max length of lead i had available)
Wiring... 1.5mm 3 core flex is 15A (most regular 13A extension leads). 2.5mm flex is 20A.
Using a 1.5mm/15A extension lead may well result in constantly blown fuses (at best)
Assuming your left and right are looking at the wiring connection side of the plug then yes but look here too.
Note: I'm NOT a sparky!
The 'normal extension lead' bit is bothering me a bit. I'm not familiar with your welder but the usual deal with a 200A inverter or similar is for it to be fused with a 'slow 16A' breaker- they can draw quite a bit of juice for very short periods of time. Taking my Lincoln as an example, machine has a input rating of 6600W (around 28A max draw on 230V) but a 16A slow fuse is specified along with 2.5mm2 flex (same size wiring as a normal ringmain). As long as 2.5mm wiring is used mine will happily run flat out from 13A plug without blowing fuses/tripping breakers. Try and use a 1.5mm extension lead and it'll pop fuses constantly (found that out on a mobile job when my requests were ignored and the sparky ignored/forgot about the max length of lead i had available)
Wiring... 1.5mm 3 core flex is 15A (most regular 13A extension leads). 2.5mm flex is 20A.
Using a 1.5mm/15A extension lead may well result in constantly blown fuses (at best)
