Re: Arc force? On Tig?!?
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:32 pm
Yea! What he said!ljdm1956 wrote:Holy Moly! No import bashing here, huh? I'd rather deal with a quirk or two when welding with a machine I can afford, then not be welding at all. I drove my daughters car recently, went to start it, huh, oh, don't need a key, just push a button. Damn, still won't start. Oh...... gotta step on the brakes at the same time. Whose dopey idea was that? Damn import cars. But - it will last forever, and sure beats walking. See the analogy? Better than not welding/better than walking. Whew! Got that off my chest. Done. Haters out there - flame away.noddybrian wrote:I don't think the function has any effect on decent brand name machines as while showing a couple of people with Millers how to set them up for tig I went through the menus & noticed arc force set fairly high & commented as I know they only run 7018 stick - they had know idea what it did or what it should be set on - while on tig we could see no difference with it at different settings - however on all the Chinese POS welders I tried you need to turn off any function that is not actively being used as they have all sorts of weird issues - I know an importer here that was working with a university to try & re-write the circuit on an early import machine he intended selling but any change they made to correct it's quirks resulted in creating a new one - he gave up in the end - there is a reason the imports are about 1/10th the price of a real welder - for some stuff you can live with them but a second hand genuine brand is a better bet in my opinion.