Hi all,
I'm new to the forum and was after a bit of help as my welder has just failed. It is a Transmig 190 that is less than 10 years old and has only done about 5 hours of welding.
I tried to use it a couple of weeks ago for the first time in about 2 years (it worked fine when I last used it 2 years ago), and the fan came on, but nothing else worked so I took it in for repair. I was informed that the problem was the transformer on the PCB and that it would be $350 for a new PCB. So I took the welder home and am hoping to fix it myself.
I measured the resistance of the primary side of the tranformer (which takes 240VAC from the wall) and it is open circuit (the secondary side appears ok), so I'll need to replace it. The problem is, there aren't any markings on the transformer (unless they are underneath, I haven't pulled it off the board yet) and because it is open circuit I can't measure it any more to work out what to replace it with.
Does anyone know what voltage the board in this welder runs on? I'm assuming that similar Cigwelds would also use the same voltage on their boards? I have emailed Cigweld, but am not expecting them to be particularly helpful.
Any help would be appreciated
Richard
I'm new to the forum and was after a bit of help as my welder has just failed. It is a Transmig 190 that is less than 10 years old and has only done about 5 hours of welding.
I tried to use it a couple of weeks ago for the first time in about 2 years (it worked fine when I last used it 2 years ago), and the fan came on, but nothing else worked so I took it in for repair. I was informed that the problem was the transformer on the PCB and that it would be $350 for a new PCB. So I took the welder home and am hoping to fix it myself.
I measured the resistance of the primary side of the tranformer (which takes 240VAC from the wall) and it is open circuit (the secondary side appears ok), so I'll need to replace it. The problem is, there aren't any markings on the transformer (unless they are underneath, I haven't pulled it off the board yet) and because it is open circuit I can't measure it any more to work out what to replace it with.
Does anyone know what voltage the board in this welder runs on? I'm assuming that similar Cigwelds would also use the same voltage on their boards? I have emailed Cigweld, but am not expecting them to be particularly helpful.
Any help would be appreciated
Richard