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Hello all, I have a quick question, I just purchased a tig welder from my work since we upgraded. Its a L Tec heli arc 306, my question is can I use this power supply and have a wire feeder on this so I can mig weld also rather than buying another welder for mig welding, I took off one of the front access panels and I found a round wire connector that looks like it would be a plug for a wire feeder, it has 3 wires that go into the back of it, but it has about 12 pins on the female end. Any Ideas?
Reply:The connector you found is more likely to be for a remote current control (foot pedal or finger control on torch) for TIG welding than for a wire feeder. Is it the only control connector on the unit? If so, it is probably a current and contactor and gas and water control, not a wire feed control.Whether you can use your power supply for MIG depends on it's design. Some units are designed with the capability of both "constant current" (as used for stick and TIG), and "constant voltage" (as usually used for MIG), but if they are, they will usually be marked as "CC/CV," or "Multi-Process," or something similar because it is a big marketing feature. I believe that most multi-process machines are inverters in which the desired modes can be achieved by the programming of the controller circuit board. It is more difficult and costly to provide multi-process capability in a transformer-type welder because the basic transformer designs differ for the two modes.Enjoy your new welder.awright
Reply:Hobart made two feeders that should work...the hefty and the porta-wire. I have both and have run these two off a cc machine (dialarc) with good results. The ln-25 from lincoln, the 8vs, 12vs, and 12vs extreme from miller and I think the heftyII from thermal arc should also work. This is not an exhaustive list. There are other cv/cc voltage sensing (VS) wire feeders that should work. On each, you should contact the maker and find out the specifics.Smithboy...if it ain't broke, you ain't tryin'. |
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发表于 2021-8-31 23:04:40