not enough generator????

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sat picked up a new lincoln ac dc machine  work s great but i have a 10,000 watt generator and i plugged it in i was gonna use the lincoln for portable work and use the maxstar for home use but after a minute on the generator the genator couldnt keep up and really pulled it down to the point of it wouldnt run right any help would be appreciatedmiller maxstar 150   hobart handler 210 w mig conversion hobart 250 arc force plasma cutter    boston ind cutting torch miller performance auto darkening helmet milwalkee 14in chop saw 10,000 watt generator huge drill press and industrial band saw
Reply:Umm... What model Lincoln? If it's a tombstone, 10 KW is probably too lite to run that buzz box full out. You probably need a 12-15kw gen set to do that. The Tombstone will want 50amps/230v and that gen will not give you that. Most 10KW gensets I've looked at give you about 40 amps at 230v. Also is the genset 10kw continuous or 10KW surge? Lots of the smaller gensets list surge kilowatts and in small print list the cont KW. If that gen set is 10KW surge, and 7.5kw cont., you are way underrated for a tombstone..No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan
Reply:Ummm.....use the more portable welder for portable work.  The Maxstar is less power hungry also.My name's not Jim....
Reply:50 amps x 230 volts is 11,500 watts, so you are maxing your generator out right off the bat.
Reply:so amps x volts equals watts  i never used that formula before i know the iv/r formula hey thanks for the help that really helps out  can you do the formula backwards to figure either volts or amps? as long as you have 2 knowns you can solve for xmiller maxstar 150   hobart handler 210 w mig conversion hobart 250 arc force plasma cutter    boston ind cutting torch miller performance auto darkening helmet milwalkee 14in chop saw 10,000 watt generator huge drill press and industrial band saw
Reply:Yeah, watts divided by volts gives you the amps. watts divided by amps gives you volts. and so on,