Electrical question and advice

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

There are a couple of considerations here beyond the base electrical draw.

First, if you are powering the trim router the UPS needs to output a sine wave.

My recommendation for this would be to:

• use a battery-powered Makita
• use a laptop or tablet w/ a battery

that should allow you to simplify this down to just the machine (and the tablet, plug it in as well).

It might work better to directly drive the machine using 24V DC (though that’s not something which is supported).

For power calculations see:

Electrical Usage For 1 Hours Use

The Carbide Compact Router draws 6.5 amps when running at full speed — the machine ought to be around 2.5–3.5amps, depending on how hard the motors are running (they actually draw more current when holding position), so we can assume 10 amps w/ a bit of room to spare. As the name implies, it’s 700 watts at full speed so to make things simple, we’ll assume 300 watts for the balance of the machine — 1 KWhr So it ought to be a quarter or so per hour depending on your local rates — unless you’re r…

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Circuit amperage

Good point Gary. I assumed that if the wire were 14 gauge the breaker would be 15 Amp. If a real electrician originally installed the circuit it would be a 15 AMP breaker, 14 Gauge Wire and a 15 AMP outlet. Many times home owners have a 20 AMP plug and simply change the outlet. Most appliances that have a 20 AMP plug dont really pull the full 20 AMPs and you may be able to get away using a 20 AMP plug on a 15 AMP circuit. The point of our advise is to inspect the outlet and fix if necessary…