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i have a miller bobcat portable gas welder. the welder has the 4 generator outlets to plug in grinders, etc.. the other day i started it and plugged a extension cord into it, not noticing the other end was in water. the outlets are now not working,{ all 4} i heard a click, tryed to push in the round switches to reset them nothing worked. anyone know of a place to look to reset the power? the white buttons {switches} are not fuses you just push them in to reset them. any hints?   thank you for your time.:
Reply:ibuildcars 4U  ok, you have a bobus cactus, but there are several generations of it.  I am looking at the own man for my NT and Ive got a three fuses it could be.  What is your bobcat, the new one,the 225 gas original or the plus or what.  Let me know I can help you with this problemCHRIS
Reply:thanks for the reply, for some reason i cannot remember the model. i will look at it in the morning and post what it is. thank you for your time
Reply:your welcome  I can get teh ownman for any one of them.  its no biggie  CHRIS
Reply:There is a fuse coming off the stator to aux power side...on most of them it is teh F-1 fuse. Sounds like it is the culprit. Easy fix.Chris, I shoulda trademarked or copyrighted Bobus Catus....  Makes me laugh to hear some one else pick up my lingo.  FWIW, it drives Cutter nuts.
Reply:Don,  Yeah if anyone ever were to ask where I comed up wiht that I know it was you, but nobody ever asks..cepts my wife...course she just thinks its the goofiest thing in the world and figures its just some darn texas thing.  Oh well what else are wives good for but complaining.  I noticed on mine there was three...two sitting infront of what I beleive is the stator,  the stator would be tehe main gen assembly right?  so its infront of that and there are actually two fuses there.  The one forward is for the generator power, the rear one is for the welding power.  There is still one more which is an inline type, located almost right up to my starter, they say its for the engine wiring.   On mine it claims the F1 is the aft fuse, for the main welding, the F2 is the forward fuse for the gen and the F6 is the one by the starter.  But Ive got the NT model and ive got the 10KW version at that.  So given that it could very well be differnt from say yours or whatever this fella has, but considering what youre sayin I think whatever model he has its a easy fix since it should be in that general are, and these fuses are easy to tell if they are good or bad.  Oh and for the record im glad you dont mind me using your lingo.  I know cutter dont like all the things I say too well lol but thats no problem to me I figured id done did school..plus college so now he can thrwo anything he wants at me I dont mind it one bit.    Ok,  well enough of me lol  its late  CHRIS
Reply:No worries at all. So the NT is F-2? Hmmm. Well I have the elec drawing for the NT's here somewhere from when I rebuilt my Bobus...just can't find it at the moment. Well, in that case, ibuild...there is a fuse....
Reply:Don,yeah thats what I found,  course I found this on hmm,   page 8-6 of the own man under overload protection.  And incase I dint mention mine was the updated version that pulled 10KW instead of the original which I think pulled the same as yours.  Not sure that it would ever make a difference.  I have actually never had a lick of problems with mine.  It runs like a dream.  Even starts alright in the cold.  IN the cold weather I need to start it off in the run positioin for usually 5-10 minutes or she will stall out on the idle.  After 10 though she idles like a champ.  But thats cold weather we dont get in Texas.  Talkin that great white north crap.  Yeah my wife said its been snowing since yesterday morning....brrrrrrrr.   OH well.   When you rebuilt yours, did you ever consider just upgrading to a larger machine?  what were the cost considerations you found?  Just wondering since I know you use this as a tool on the job.  My brother in law has a big hobart 300 amp job.  Its about the size of a sa-200.  he would always tell me mine was not as industrial of a machine as his.  But mine burned half the fuel, and weighed about half or so.  Plus, only thing his could do mine couldnt was carbon arc, which he dint have the equipment anyway.  So Ive never had any complaints iwth my cat.  I granted I gotta get it up in the upper end to do run them bigger rods, but for the important stuff, ie vert up and overhead, everwhere I have read they say no bigger than 5/32 on low hy and 3/16 on other rods for out of position.  Well my bobus will do that, barely but it iwll do that. lol.  Anyway, tlak to you laterCHRIS
Reply:ok it is a miller bobcat 225 nt. thanks for all your help and suggestions. i appreciate the time you took to help.
Reply:by the way i forgot to ask where about are you in texas. my dad just moved up to live with me. he brought all his welding equipment up with him, had his buisness for about 10 years or more, had to quit because of health reasons. he ran his buisness out of fort worth, i believe, about 45 min from dallas. i used to weld for 10 years untill my new job, but i am pretty impressed with this bobcat. never used one before, now up in ohio its been 25 deg. and it starts and runs fine in the weather. welds great to. well again thanks for your time......chris
Reply:YEah,  im in carrollton, which is north of Dallas, but a suberb.  Ft Worth aint too far id say like it depends but going to the Naval base was 45 mins for me.  Anyway, I love my bobus its great. No concerns.  I would love a bigger better machine.  But its very durable and I have no complaints.  The arc on them better machines is more refined, but nto to say that bob is bad, but I think theres limitations in regards to passing xray.   However, I can pass bend tests and such so its a very formidable machine.  I do like it.  and its rugged as all get out.  If you dnt believe me ask DDA52,  hes apaprently drug his through hell and back and its still a champ.CHRIS