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Oxy Acet set up ?
I have a lot of experience with the paton machines. Will post about them a bit later.thanks for all the comments,
i'm now starting to lean towards a Paton PSI 160 pulse....on the surface it seems to tick most of my boxes, except i can't find many comments from practical experience......has anybody got one?
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yes please....thanks Hugh. i can find a couple of threads about the bigger models but nothing on the 160I have a lot of experience with the paton machines. Will post about them a bit later.
well there's an idea!! from little acorns might need more than one panel thoughJust my thoughts.
Think I would be getting an engine driven welder if in your position. I would be worried about some of the other white goods you may have plugged in to a supply that will be very variable when welding.
On the solar panel front could this be an infinite free supply if you placed the panel in front of the ark light from the welder.
EUREKA
the installer did comment that he thought the current was smoother from the victron than the mains!A supply from a 5kva victron will be anything but variable. Buy whatever welder you want that will run from a 13/16a plug and use it.
If it's a 1500rpm Kubota, then it's most likely to have a reasonable quality 4-pole industrial spec alternator (a Meccalte, a Leroy Somer or a Newage Stamford are the most common in the UK). Any one of those is likely to perform much better on a Welder than any of the portable 3000rpm 2-pole kit.thanks..
so Ive checked the generator...it's actually 8kw and 10kva
can't find a spec sheet, but it's a 3 cylinder kubota engine. not a lightweight bit of kit.
I'd go along with this. I'd add though that inverters of any kind cause voltage distortion harmonics that affect the voltage output control of genset alternator - and the smaller, less mass and quality the generator, and the greater the size of the inverter load as a proportion of the genset output, the exponentially increasing chance that you'll have problems. Once an inverter gets above 45-50% of the genset rating, the chances of operating problems skyrockets.With inverter welders, either arc or MIG, the initial power-up surge is minimised by a soft-start circuit, which charges the empty input smoothing capacitors via a resistor. Then I think that current surges caused by arc strike-up on the welder's output will be drawn from those capacitors, so an inverter will be less of a spiky load than a transformer-based set.