how many watts needed for a melting pot?

[Tazza]

We have people wanting us to use less coal, but what alternatives do we have? renewables are too expensive and you can't rely on them for all weather conditions. If they want to get rid of coal, we'd need something like nuclear but you can imagine how that one goes? We also mine yellow cake, so nuclear would be a good one for us too, modern reactors are MUCH safer than the Chernobyl and Fukushima that make people scared.

We live in an age that we need more energy, good way for them to make more money i guess.

[Ausglock]

TAZZA.
Just had a look at the heating elements in my Ballisti Mark X machines.
They are 2700w. Local Sparky said a good 10Amp outlet will be fine. But a 15Amp would be better.
They will get a 50lb pot from ambient to 750 Deg F in about 15 minutes.

[Tazza]

Thanks for looking at your machines.

That seems pretty quick for 50 lbs

At 2,700 watts that is 11.25 amps, i do understand that it won't be pulling the full 2,700 watts all the time, so being right on the limit of a 10a circuit is ok. Not sure just how good my outlets are, but i'm sure i'll find out when i give it a go Worst case, i'm installing a good 15 amp outlet to power it.

Now, to get the pot built!

[Ausglock]

Yep. I'm getting the sparky to run 2 dedicated 32Amp lines.
2x 15Amp outlets for the Mark X machines and 2x 20Amp outlets for the Mark II machines.
Running the 2700w on a 10 amp does cause the plug to get warm while heating up. But once you start running the machine, it comes back to ambient.

[Grmps]

Trevor's talking 220 Volts, that's all they got down there.

[Ausglock]

Trevor's talking 220 Volts, that's all they got down there.

Yep. 240 volt single phase and 415volt 3 phase. 50 Hz

[Tazza]

We have "real" power here, none of that whimpy 110 volts Wow, multiple mark X and mark 2 machines, no wonder you need more high power outlets, glad you have solar panels to pay for some of that energy usage.

[dikman]

Actually, 230v is now the "standard" here. Of course, you may not actually get quite that much, depending where you are.