"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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With the Airco turned on, simply ideling, current went up to about 22
amps per leg, and here is the funny part...at 25 volts, burning .45
DualSheild, with 150 amps indicated on the welder, total current draw
only went up to 28 amps, raising the voltage to its top 35 volts...far
far into the OH **** spray transfer mode, only raised the total amps
to 35 with an indicated 250 amps of weld current. Chuckle..burning
that hot was like using a spray gun, the weld looked like it was
composed of nothing but tiny ball bearings, and had absolutly no
simularity to a weld at all. It was a sponge.

I'm not sure what you're describing here. A sponge sounds like porosity. In
regular spray transfer without Dual Shield, the weld looks like nice, shiny,
molten metal- kind of like the stuff the cop was made out of in Terminator.
You can put a lot of metal on fast which can lead to gorilla welds if you're
not careful.