2mm sheet and I think 2mm rods1.6 rods? If so, there'll be a suggestion of amperage on the packet.
If that's 2.5 sheet then I'd be looking at 2.5 rods.
Get yourself some thicker material to practice on. And use 3.2 rod's running around 105 amps you will find it much easier.
Get yourself some thicker material to practice on. And use 3.2 rod's running around 105 amps you will find it much easier.
Right! Will do. My welder is 120a but wired to a 13a plug - I think it’s supposed to be on a 16a plug but I don’t have any sockets for them. 100a won’t pop any fuses right?6mm plate - 3.2mm 6013's - 100+ amps.
Bead after bead - run after run - downhand - overlapping each other
Get the feel for it... Tighten your arc length - watch the weld pool and what it does!
Thin rods just burn away too quickly for a learner to see what it happening - too fast to take control!
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Even I do this every now and again - "to keep my hand in". But I will stick test plate in vice vertical - short arc vertical up. After a session of downhand.
Stormforce draper 120a arc welderone way to find out! Turn it up! it may pop a fuse, or maybe not. Which welder is it? 120 amps is the maximum on a 13 amp plug
That will only pop the plug fuse right it won’t mess with anything else?!one way to find out! Turn it up! it may pop a fuse, or maybe not. Which welder is it? 120 amps is the maximum on a 13 amp plug
the inrush current can easily trip a b type 32 amp mcb . should realy be a c typeActually given that fuses are quite slow to blow, it might trip the MCB for the circuit instead. That's what a friends MIG used to do, it would trip the 32A MCB without blowing the 13A fuse.