Hi all,
What a handy forum (especially for a beginner like me).
My main goal is to do panel repairs on the Morris Minor I am fixing. To that end I bought a Starweld SW1500 second hand (but fairly new, and it came with a new roll of wire and an auto-darkening helmet which is pretty cool).
However I am concerned that it might not have a suitably low setting for thin panels. The manual doesn't make a lot of sense, so I have attached a couple of pictures hoping someone can decipher them.
It has 4 power settings labelled A to D, but the info panel only gives three voltage/current values, the lowest of which is 75 A. By contrast, the top of the panel suggests that the lowest setting might be 60 A. Would that be too powerful for what I want (with 0.6mm wire)? And is there a reason for the confusing way they have described it?
I've tried it out, and it makes sparks and feeds wire OK. I don't have any gas yet so haven't managed an actual weld.
Thanks for any help!
What a handy forum (especially for a beginner like me).
My main goal is to do panel repairs on the Morris Minor I am fixing. To that end I bought a Starweld SW1500 second hand (but fairly new, and it came with a new roll of wire and an auto-darkening helmet which is pretty cool).
However I am concerned that it might not have a suitably low setting for thin panels. The manual doesn't make a lot of sense, so I have attached a couple of pictures hoping someone can decipher them.
It has 4 power settings labelled A to D, but the info panel only gives three voltage/current values, the lowest of which is 75 A. By contrast, the top of the panel suggests that the lowest setting might be 60 A. Would that be too powerful for what I want (with 0.6mm wire)? And is there a reason for the confusing way they have described it?
I've tried it out, and it makes sparks and feeds wire OK. I don't have any gas yet so haven't managed an actual weld.
Thanks for any help!