brockenhammer
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Hi,
there was another tig welder falling on my feet some days ago, I would like to introduce to you. That might be of interest, because Jäckle seems a not very known brand in UK.
It´s a 300A AC/DC inverter unit on wheels (weight around 65kg) with build in water cooler. It was build about 10years ago.
There is another carriable version without the cooler around 30kg available.
I really like these machines because of the superb DC arc quality they offer.
There are not many machines I like that much from that point of view (and I had EWM, Kemmpi, Lincoln, Thermal Arc, Fronius, Hitachi and Lorch...)
I cannot really judge the AC arc, because I´m not an alu specialist. But it offers the adjustability you want from a modern AC machine like balance and frequency.
There came my favourite pedal (Gessmann style) with the welder, a pedal which is also used by EWM, Merkle and ESS.
The internal construction seems very solid. There is a massive channel for the airflow, the more sensitive electronics are build around that.
The big fan runs not very fast and very silent! There are much louder ones build into other machines.
The inverter originally is build by Oelmaier Industrieelektronik. ESS also uses or used this inverter technology.
Jäckle still offers this type of machine, but for some reasons they changed to another cooperation with CEA for the newest generation.
What I miss on the 301 is the option of slow and fast pulse together.
There is a pulse remote offered, which offers std. pulse. But when you work with that remote and a pedal, you allways have to use the whole 4-300A range. It´s not possible to adjust 100A on the panel for example and then weld from 4-100A with the pedal. That´s a bug I think, and no option for me, because I weld most time very thin steel tubing.
There is another control board available with build in pulse (here you would have to decide if it works in the range from 0.3-16Hz, or you have a fast pulse in the 12.5-1250hz range). To have both is not possible. That´s a limitation of the older design they told me.
The layout of the interface is very logical and you don´t really need a manual.
Here are some pics......
there was another tig welder falling on my feet some days ago, I would like to introduce to you. That might be of interest, because Jäckle seems a not very known brand in UK.
It´s a 300A AC/DC inverter unit on wheels (weight around 65kg) with build in water cooler. It was build about 10years ago.
There is another carriable version without the cooler around 30kg available.
I really like these machines because of the superb DC arc quality they offer.
There are not many machines I like that much from that point of view (and I had EWM, Kemmpi, Lincoln, Thermal Arc, Fronius, Hitachi and Lorch...)
I cannot really judge the AC arc, because I´m not an alu specialist. But it offers the adjustability you want from a modern AC machine like balance and frequency.
There came my favourite pedal (Gessmann style) with the welder, a pedal which is also used by EWM, Merkle and ESS.
The internal construction seems very solid. There is a massive channel for the airflow, the more sensitive electronics are build around that.
The big fan runs not very fast and very silent! There are much louder ones build into other machines.
The inverter originally is build by Oelmaier Industrieelektronik. ESS also uses or used this inverter technology.
Jäckle still offers this type of machine, but for some reasons they changed to another cooperation with CEA for the newest generation.
What I miss on the 301 is the option of slow and fast pulse together.
There is a pulse remote offered, which offers std. pulse. But when you work with that remote and a pedal, you allways have to use the whole 4-300A range. It´s not possible to adjust 100A on the panel for example and then weld from 4-100A with the pedal. That´s a bug I think, and no option for me, because I weld most time very thin steel tubing.
There is another control board available with build in pulse (here you would have to decide if it works in the range from 0.3-16Hz, or you have a fast pulse in the 12.5-1250hz range). To have both is not possible. That´s a limitation of the older design they told me.
The layout of the interface is very logical and you don´t really need a manual.
Here are some pics......
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