DennisCA
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SCR = Silicone Controlled Rectifier
I was looking for info on my old welder and what it really is after a discussion sequed into the nature of welding inverters for some reasons.
I am not sure if my machine is an inverter, or a transformer. The manual says it's a machine based on "inverter technology" but has no schematics. What I know is that it's from '94, 3-phase driven and has transformers on the inside. It squeals when welding, like PowCon machines. I think it might use the same technology as those did. And PowCon themselves resold Kemppi machines at one point in the 90s.
From what I understand SCR is just another word for a thyristor and based on that I know several people would say a thyristor driven machine is not really an inverter, it's a thyristor controlled transformer welder. That seems to be what people from sweden thinks.
But that would mean PowCons and Arcons today aren't true inverters but more of a souped up transformer, an almost inverter? The americans and english speaking world seem to define them as inverters at any rate. So what's the deal here?
I don't really care about this for any practical reason other than I find the ambiguity unbearable
Though if my machine is not a true inverter and uses transformer technology, guess that means it could run 6010s...
I was looking for info on my old welder and what it really is after a discussion sequed into the nature of welding inverters for some reasons.
I am not sure if my machine is an inverter, or a transformer. The manual says it's a machine based on "inverter technology" but has no schematics. What I know is that it's from '94, 3-phase driven and has transformers on the inside. It squeals when welding, like PowCon machines. I think it might use the same technology as those did. And PowCon themselves resold Kemppi machines at one point in the 90s.
From what I understand SCR is just another word for a thyristor and based on that I know several people would say a thyristor driven machine is not really an inverter, it's a thyristor controlled transformer welder. That seems to be what people from sweden thinks.
But that would mean PowCons and Arcons today aren't true inverters but more of a souped up transformer, an almost inverter? The americans and english speaking world seem to define them as inverters at any rate. So what's the deal here?
I don't really care about this for any practical reason other than I find the ambiguity unbearable
Though if my machine is not a true inverter and uses transformer technology, guess that means it could run 6010s...