That's right, lower voltage, higher current. When the voltage is too high,
you will just get arcing and pitting of the parts and electrodes.

As to transformers, keep poking about on Ebay. I picked up some a while
back.

On 2 Jan 2006 03:25:24 -0800, "mj" wrote:

Bradford,
My unit works...sort of. It ran long enough to get two pieces of .005
brass sheet strips soldered together before the internal breaker kicked
in. It takes a little bit for it to cool before I could try it again.
Even soldering the .005 strips took about 5-6 seconds. The commercial
units will do it in about 3. I just need more power coming out of the
carbon rod, which I "think" is more amps and maybe lower volts.
Mike