G'day everyone, I bought a second hand mig welder about a year ago which has turned out to be quite a nice machine overall but it has this one issue where it just all of a sudden starts feeding the wire out as fast as it possible can? It's usually a pretty rare occurrence so I haven't been able to pinpoint any reasons for why it might be starting sadly. I've taken it into the shop to get them to see if they can work out what the go is but of course the machine is working perfectly on there now so I thought I'd come here for some ideas.
So you could be welding away just fine and then all of a sudden the wire will just feed out at maximum speed. It could happen twice in an hour or you could go for weeks without any issues and the only way I've found you fix it is to do a full reset of the machine which then only works maybe 70% of the time so I just have to keep going until it sorts itself out? So this is the welder and wire feeder below if that helps anybody? I know it's going to be hard to pinpoint what the issue is but I'm hoping somebody has had the issue before and can point me in the right direction
Thanks very much for your time, Tom
So you could be welding away just fine and then all of a sudden the wire will just feed out at maximum speed. It could happen twice in an hour or you could go for weeks without any issues and the only way I've found you fix it is to do a full reset of the machine which then only works maybe 70% of the time so I just have to keep going until it sorts itself out? So this is the welder and wire feeder below if that helps anybody? I know it's going to be hard to pinpoint what the issue is but I'm hoping somebody has had the issue before and can point me in the right direction
Thanks very much for your time, Tom