OK, neighbors here I go...

[Yofish]

So, I rethought a little and and after not finding the switch I wanted I decided to run what I brung. I have an Miller adaptor that made the so called 'second generation' XR gun work with the 1st generation XR feeder. I whacked it in half (gag) to make the connection between the 30A and the IMig pin connector. First, I removed the male connector from the IMig and removed all the wires and replaced them with 18ga wire to do the two functions of energizing the weld power and provide power to the drive motor. Only four lines needed.



After reinstalling it, I butt into various wires to make appropriate connects:



Then I built the adapter. In my little burg there was no four conductor wire so I just used 18ga hook-up wire and helping hands:



After soldering and heatshrink, we have the completed adapter. I'll wrap it later. Notice funky 30A; that is the very unit that went swimming in 1988. Pretty dodgy but still cranks wire, sort of:



And so here we have the 1st weld on .190" with .035" wire. Machine set @ 21.5V and I'm told it read between 140-150A. The only issue is that the wire speed is cranked almost full open. I was worried about that because I only got 15+ on the VOM and I know the Miller WC-24 puts out 24. But it works! If I'm not happy with the wire output, I can use a WC-24 and a PSA-2 that I have. I was wishfully hoping for an 'all-in-one' solution. Even with these additional appurtenances, it is still handier than anything I have.



I'm pretty sure that I can make this work for what I intended. I'll play around with it tomorrow using .030, 3/64" and differing settings.

I briefly looked at some of the later comments and will pass on commenting other than yes, salmon DO, indeed, swim upstream and I do love Alaska and all us hicks.