Question For Those Using A TA 185 ???

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I am a little confused on the owners manual on my TA 185. The manual states that 65 on the dial the AC balance is maximum cleaning and that 10 on the dial is maximum penetration. Setting the dial on 65 does the opposite and balls the tungsten while toward 10 I see better cleaning and no balling ....what gives????Manual states..........This parameter is used for aluminum AC TIG mode and is used to set the penetration to cleaning action ratio for the AC weld current. GenerallyWAVE BALANCE is set to 50% for AC STICK welding. The WAVE BALANCE control changes the ratio of penetration to cleaning action ofthe AC TIG welding arc. Maximum weld penetration is achieved whenthe WAVE BALANCE control is set to 10%. Maximum cleaning of heavilyoxidised aluminium or magnesium alloys is achieved when the WAVE BALANCE control is set to 65%Last edited by rahtreelimbs; 04-20-2013 at 05:46 PM.
Reply:Nothing is wrong with you or the machine. Its just marked the opposite way of traditional thinking.
Reply:Originally Posted by Jay ONothing is wrong with you or the machine. Its just marked the opposite way of traditional thinking.
Reply:Originally Posted by rahtreelimbsSo the manual is backwards???
Reply:I too had the same problem. After several alum. welding attempts, I re-read the manual -quite a few times- & finally figured the 'backwardsness' of it. I talked with a fella at LWS (who actually knows welding!) who said that thermalarc manuals are written for people who already know how to weld. Which makes sense in a convoluted kind of way. -c-
Reply:Originally Posted by rahtreelimbsI am a little confused on the owners manual on my TA 185. The manual states that 65 on the dial the AC balance is maximum cleaning and that 10 on the dial is maximum penetration. Setting the dial on 65 does the opposite and balls the tungsten while toward 10 I see better cleaning and no balling ....what gives????Manual states..........This parameter is used for aluminum AC TIG mode and is used to set the penetration to cleaning action ratio for the AC weld current. GenerallyWAVE BALANCE is set to 50% for AC STICK welding. The WAVE BALANCE control changes the ratio of penetration to cleaning action ofthe AC TIG welding arc. Maximum weld penetration is achieved whenthe WAVE BALANCE control is set to 10%. Maximum cleaning of heavilyoxidised aluminium or magnesium alloys is achieved when the WAVE BALANCE control is set to 65%