Thanks a bunch James. Everything you've talked about has been very helpful. Feels like I'm up to speed now on the electrical side of things, although I'll still hire an electrician to get this lil project done.

Thanks for all the advice rumrunner. I've recently taught myself stuff like line voltage drop formulas etc, but really you're right. I def need professional advice on this. Machine I've got my sights set on is the Syncrowave 250 DX. I just hope I can get enough juice out there.

Thanks so much mister bobo. I think your very right that I should design my electrical according to the specific machine I'll be running.

Can anyone explain a little to me about 'phase' as in 1-phase 2-phase 3-phase? Thanks!

Little update, looks like I'm dealing with 208 instead.

Any advice at all?

New to welding here and one of the first projects I see happening is trying to get just any kind of reasonably reliable 220 outlet out to my garage. Like as in me running new conduit starting from my house junction box in the basement, going 2 ft along a cinder block wall, and then turning to go thr...