Hello
I saw a cnc knee mill on ebay in January price seemed low. At last minute put in the winning bid. I knew there would be tooling, electrical, and misc. costs, but I was sure suprised.
First, my incomming service was underpowered to begin with. Once the electric company engineer gets involved he wants to know everything that I want to run(house and garage) he doesnt care what it is he just wants to supply me with enough amps. He determines that i need 400 amp primary service(200 house/200 garage). I am thinking this is great I will have enough power for future machine additions. Where the costs come in is that it is my responsibility to install everything from the incomming primary wires. By the time I was finished I had $1500 in wire, 400 amp meter socket, and new service wires to house and garage. Add on to that i had the cost of a phase converter $700(10hp american rotary works excellent).
You will want to keep heat in your shop to some degree. CNC machines have much the same electronics as computers. I would not put a machine anywhere I would not be willing to put a PC
I hope this helps
Joe  |