Hi there, I found your forum when searching for problems with my Lincoln tig set, I hope you dont mind me joining to ask this question, I hope someone can help me.
I'm a hobby welder and treated myself to a Lincoln V205-T ac/dc machine to get into Tig, bought second hand from a retiring self employed mobile welder, it was his spare machine so had basically lived in his van, or so the story went. It worked fine for me for about a month (240V supply in my garage), then I got the E11 error, 'input voltage too high'. Switch it off and then on again, it worked fine as normal. This got me by for another month or so, I dont do much welding day to day. Last weekend, it took 2 or 3 power cycles before it didnt throw the error, then welded fine for almost 4 hours. The following day I just couldnt get it to not throw the error no matter how many times I cycled the power. I wondered if the fact I have my welder supply on a Type D slow blow MCB, could this have been confusing the voltage detecting filter board, so I tried it on another circuit in my garage without the D type MCB, same error, I then tried it on a 110v supply, as its obvs the voltage sensing dual 110/240 model. This time i get E12, 'input voltage too low'. Took it to local lincoln repair shop, they fixed it with factory reset and gave me it back (i assumed it was a more conclusive factory reset than I had already performed), or so they thought, E11 within seconds of turning her on when I got it home. Returned to repair shop, now told it needs new inverter board at £1200.
The fan comes on when its powered up, it throws the E11 in all modes, tig or stick, it throws it whether HF is set to on or off, from a factory reset of all parameters it will turn on, the fan will be on, and within 5 minutes just sat on standby, no buttons pressed, no trigger touched, it will throw E11.
I have seen a couple of threads on this forum regarding these models and there appears to be some real knowledgeable guys with regards to them and electronics in general, can anyone point me in the right direction please?
Thanks in advance,
Scott
I'm a hobby welder and treated myself to a Lincoln V205-T ac/dc machine to get into Tig, bought second hand from a retiring self employed mobile welder, it was his spare machine so had basically lived in his van, or so the story went. It worked fine for me for about a month (240V supply in my garage), then I got the E11 error, 'input voltage too high'. Switch it off and then on again, it worked fine as normal. This got me by for another month or so, I dont do much welding day to day. Last weekend, it took 2 or 3 power cycles before it didnt throw the error, then welded fine for almost 4 hours. The following day I just couldnt get it to not throw the error no matter how many times I cycled the power. I wondered if the fact I have my welder supply on a Type D slow blow MCB, could this have been confusing the voltage detecting filter board, so I tried it on another circuit in my garage without the D type MCB, same error, I then tried it on a 110v supply, as its obvs the voltage sensing dual 110/240 model. This time i get E12, 'input voltage too low'. Took it to local lincoln repair shop, they fixed it with factory reset and gave me it back (i assumed it was a more conclusive factory reset than I had already performed), or so they thought, E11 within seconds of turning her on when I got it home. Returned to repair shop, now told it needs new inverter board at £1200.
The fan comes on when its powered up, it throws the E11 in all modes, tig or stick, it throws it whether HF is set to on or off, from a factory reset of all parameters it will turn on, the fan will be on, and within 5 minutes just sat on standby, no buttons pressed, no trigger touched, it will throw E11.
I have seen a couple of threads on this forum regarding these models and there appears to be some real knowledgeable guys with regards to them and electronics in general, can anyone point me in the right direction please?
Thanks in advance,
Scott