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TIG welder info
Jon Elson wrote:
Bill Martin wrote: FS12746 It seems to come with an air-cooled torch, if you are doing anything substantial, you will probably want to get a water-cooled torch and cooler. It is only rated at 20% duty cycle at 200 A, so you have to stop every 30 seconds or so to let it cool at rated current. You will want to get gas lenses instead of the cheap ceramic cups to reduce Argon usage, gas is now the most expensive part of TIG welding. As for reliability and maintainability of the brand, I have no idea. Jon What duty cycle details do the US mandate, in Europe the standard is 10 minutes IIRC so a 20% duty cycle would give 2 minutes welding time. |
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TIG welder info
On Sep 3, 3:39*pm, David Billington
wrote: Jon Elson wrote: Bill Martin wrote: FS12746 It seems to come with an air-cooled torch, if you are doing anything substantial, you will probably want to get a water-cooled torch and cooler. It is only rated at 20% duty cycle at 200 A, so you have to stop every 30 seconds or so to let it cool at rated current. You will want to get gas lenses instead of the cheap ceramic cups to reduce Argon usage, gas is now the most expensive part of TIG welding. As for reliability and maintainability of the brand, I have no idea. Jon What duty cycle details do the US mandate, in Europe the standard is 10 minutes IIRC so a 20% duty cycle would give *2 minutes welding time.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Don't know that there's an "officially mandated" duty cycle here. Hobby stuff can go from 5% on up, industrial quality welders vary with how much cash you fork out, some of the engine driven and mongo transformer welders will run 100% duty cycle and cost accordingly. The duty cycle is in the specs, it's up to the buyer to trade off cost with duty cycle. Usually prep and setup time are longer than the actual welding time, so lower duty cycles aren't really that constraining for a lot of projects. Structural steel and heavy pipe joining are exceptions. Stan |
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