Next shipment?

[watercooler]

Very cool ... you will love it

I loved it up until my second session of welding a couple beads and the welder just stop working,no joke.All that it is doing now is giving me a very weak and faint arc and nothing more.I will be calling the office tomorrow,this just sucks seeing that I waited over a month for this welder and it completely died in a couple hours.

[Trip59]

I loved it up until my second session of welding a couple beads and the welder just stop working,no joke.All that it is doing now is giving me a very weak and faint arc and nothing more.I will be calling the office tomorrow,this just sucks seeing that I waited over a month for this welder and it completely died in a couple hours.

Not an expert, but that sounds suspiciously familiar... isn't that the arc gap issue, like a 5 minute fix?

[Rodsmachineshop]

or ran out of argon . i had that happen last week forgot to turn my gas on lol no arc

[watercooler]

Yes I can see the arc inside the machine,how do I fix it??? and what caused this in the first place?

[watercooler]

I have a full tank of organ that I just bought for this machine the flow meter still showing full.

[Rodsmachineshop]

make sure your ground clamp is good contact

[Rodsmachineshop]

what your lpm flow

[Rambozo]

It sounds like you have HF but no main arc transfer. The arcing inside between the points is normal. If the point gap was knocked out of adjustment from shipping you would have no starting arc. Be sure to check your ground clamp, and dinse connector for the wire pulling out. Lack of ground would cause your symptoms. You can also try stick mode and lift start TIG to provide more information for troubleshooting. Also AC and DC modes.

[watercooler]

what your lpm flow

Its 7 lpm = 15 cfh and ground is good.

[Rodsmachineshop]

are you using the peddle if so try with out and see if it works

[Rodsmachineshop]

also bad connection at power plug for the 220

[watercooler]

It sounds like you have HF but no main arc transfer. The arcing inside between the points is normal. If the point gap was knocked out of adjustment from shipping you would have no starting arc. Be sure to check your ground clamp, and dinse connector for the wire pulling out. Lack of ground would cause your symptoms. You can also try stick mode and lift start TIG to provide more information for troubleshooting. Also AC and DC modes.

Thanks guys for the super fast response,After doing some troubleshooting by switching to lift start I could only get a tiny arc and thats with the tungsten literally touching my work piece.It also seemed like the welder was arcing without pressing the foot pedal so I quickly turned off the unit by the power switch in the back,then it hit me why not un plug the foot pedal and connect the torch switch.....and boom problem solved!.The foot pedal was causing all the issues.

[Rodsmachineshop]

lol i knew it lol darn foot peddles check and see if the pot took a crap or cog scipped in foot pedal

[Rambozo]

Nice to hear it was something easily replaced. Based on some people's pics of lack of strain relief on the pedal wiring. If it's okay with Oleg, and you feel like doing it, you might want to open the pedal and just see if a wire got pulled off. Could be easier to just fix it, than to send the pedal back for a replacement. And no down time waiting for shipping.

[Rodsmachineshop]

i called oleg to talk to him about the USA made peddle think i might buy one to review how well it works and how well its made

[watercooler]

I can proudly say that my beads are now 100% better and no more arc wondering.That damn foot pedal was my problem all along now I am getting nice clean welds with out any weird arc wondering.I contacted Oleg on it so I am waiting on his response before I open it up.

[Oleg]

Thanks guys for the super fast response,After doing some troubleshooting by switching to lift start I could only get a tiny arc and thats with the tungsten literally touching my work piece.It also seemed like the welder was arcing without pressing the foot pedal so I quickly turned off the unit by the power switch in the back,then it hit me why not un plug the foot pedal and connect the torch switch.....and boom problem solved!.The foot pedal was causing all the issues.

By the time i got home , all was solved !
Thanks to all who tried to help WaterCooler !
Ray will call him and get the pedal issue fix

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By the time i got home , all was solved !
Thanks to all who tried to help WaterCooler !
Ray will call him and get the pedal issue fix

Yeah, great bunch. I missed the whole episode - it was so short and so many people pitching in to help diagnose.

[watercooler]

Its nothing like having a product and great support to back it up.Update,I took the foot pedal at work to have our electronics tech diagnose and it appears to be the potentiometer is dead which seems like an easy fix.