frugalangler
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I've searched multiple ways and haven't found a satisfactory explanation, don't know if it's my search skills or there is not one out there?
I was welding over the weekend using a friends Simadre MIG-200M (supposedly called a Synergic Welder and it's controls are very similar to Everlast Power i-MIG 275S Synergic), and was puzzled by it's setup, as there is a setting for wire thickness, voltage, and current. I've read their manual and it's really basic, doesn't explain much other than where to plug in leads and what the icons on the front mean and do, but nothing about setting up. (Nor have I seen this in some other big name brand machine manuals I've downloaded.)
In playing with it's settings, it appears that wire thickness adjusts the starting wire feed speed, and knowing what little I know about MIG, being it's a CV (Constant Voltage) process, you set the voltage for what you're welding, but this welder also can set current. Take for example, Miller suggests for E71T-11 flux core on 3/16" with .035" wire to use 15.0 Volts and 210 ips as a starting point. Being the Simadre has you set the wire diameter, that is all I can do for wire speed, or so I think, without using a custom setting (which there is one).
So, this begs the question, where do you set the current and what is the rationale behind how it is set? Does setting that current to a value coupled w/ the wire diameter establish a wire feed speed by the welder to achieve keeping sufficient wire to keep an arc maintaining the requisite voltage setting? Some information implies that wire feed speed is control of current, so does a automated machine like the Simadre control wire speed to achieve the current set by the dial to keep a constant voltage as set by the dial? I'm good with that if so, and can adjust my technique accordingly just need to understand what goes on in the background.
I'm dumbfounded by these new machines, having done all my MIG using a fairly basic 4 switch setting & variable wire speed machine with pretty good results, I don't know the relationships and how to set up these new machines. I did quite a bit of test beads, but never really got what I'd consider as good a weld bead as with the old box I was used to. Hopefully, if someone can explain this it might serve to explain to me and others that have similar questions.
I was welding over the weekend using a friends Simadre MIG-200M (supposedly called a Synergic Welder and it's controls are very similar to Everlast Power i-MIG 275S Synergic), and was puzzled by it's setup, as there is a setting for wire thickness, voltage, and current. I've read their manual and it's really basic, doesn't explain much other than where to plug in leads and what the icons on the front mean and do, but nothing about setting up. (Nor have I seen this in some other big name brand machine manuals I've downloaded.)
In playing with it's settings, it appears that wire thickness adjusts the starting wire feed speed, and knowing what little I know about MIG, being it's a CV (Constant Voltage) process, you set the voltage for what you're welding, but this welder also can set current. Take for example, Miller suggests for E71T-11 flux core on 3/16" with .035" wire to use 15.0 Volts and 210 ips as a starting point. Being the Simadre has you set the wire diameter, that is all I can do for wire speed, or so I think, without using a custom setting (which there is one).
So, this begs the question, where do you set the current and what is the rationale behind how it is set? Does setting that current to a value coupled w/ the wire diameter establish a wire feed speed by the welder to achieve keeping sufficient wire to keep an arc maintaining the requisite voltage setting? Some information implies that wire feed speed is control of current, so does a automated machine like the Simadre control wire speed to achieve the current set by the dial to keep a constant voltage as set by the dial? I'm good with that if so, and can adjust my technique accordingly just need to understand what goes on in the background.
I'm dumbfounded by these new machines, having done all my MIG using a fairly basic 4 switch setting & variable wire speed machine with pretty good results, I don't know the relationships and how to set up these new machines. I did quite a bit of test beads, but never really got what I'd consider as good a weld bead as with the old box I was used to. Hopefully, if someone can explain this it might serve to explain to me and others that have similar questions.
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