Wiring help,any electricians in the house???

1-tonmudder

1-tonmudder

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Greeneville TN
We have a utility room that is off our car port and Tonya has bought her a tanning bed to go in it.The bed is 220 and according to the book is 30 amp. This is a commercial bed and has a commercial style plug in the end of it.
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The wall receptacle I’m wanting to use is 220 but has an old stove type outlet in it.
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So can I just change the outlet in the wall box to fit the cord or change the end of the cord to match the outlet, or am I over looking something?? I have used this outlet to run my 220 Hobart 185 mig welder w no problems.
 
1-tonmudder said:
We have a utility room that is off our car port and Tonya has bought her a tanning bed to go in it.The bed is 220 and according to the book is 30 amp. This is a commercial bed and has a commercial style plug in the end of it.
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The wall receptacle I’m wanting to use is 220 but has an old stove type outlet in it.
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So can I just change the outlet in the wall box to fit the cord or change the end of the cord to match the outlet, or am I over looking something?? I have used this outlet to run my 220 Hobart 185 mig welder w no problems.
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Yes, both are standard 240v (2 hots and a ground).

Here‘s the wiring in case the colors are weird.

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The cord barely gets to the wall so I think Im gonna make a short ext cord for it and Ill just change the end then.From what googler says I need a 10 gauge wire??
 
It should be 2 hots and a ground so you have enough conductors, and big enough conductors to make it work. The only thing I haven’t seen anyone else mention, is to downsize the 50a breaker to a 30a breaker. You want your overcurrent protection to not be greater than the receptacle’s ampacity
 
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