Hi,
wondering if anyone can give me some pointers with my EWM Picomig160.
its fairly recently started welding like absolute rubbish at low current.
Anything above about 80 Amps and there is nothing wrong with it, welds as good as it always has.
I'm doing a lot of car bodywork at the moment though which requires low amps of anywhere between 30 and 60 at most and I'm more frequently at 40ish, but at this level it just wont weld properly.
so I get a lot of burn back, big droplets of metal dropping off the end of the torch and the panels when I end up blowing through the steel, the torch clogs up with the filler wire etc. basically near impossible too weld consistently.
the easiest way I can explain it is when its high amps, i can hear that sizzling bacon sound, when its low I don't get the bacon I just get the noise of the gas.
Any light?
something easy I can change like is it a faulty torch? or a faulty earth cable likely?
Its' at the point where I'm next going to ask to borrow my mates newer EWM and swap things about (earth, torch etc.) and if that's any better on the same car then it has to be something wrong with my machine in which case I will take it to someone to look at. but if im being a muppet im happy to own up to it and fix it myself if it saves me a bit of cash lol
wondering if anyone can give me some pointers with my EWM Picomig160.
its fairly recently started welding like absolute rubbish at low current.
Anything above about 80 Amps and there is nothing wrong with it, welds as good as it always has.
I'm doing a lot of car bodywork at the moment though which requires low amps of anywhere between 30 and 60 at most and I'm more frequently at 40ish, but at this level it just wont weld properly.
so I get a lot of burn back, big droplets of metal dropping off the end of the torch and the panels when I end up blowing through the steel, the torch clogs up with the filler wire etc. basically near impossible too weld consistently.
the easiest way I can explain it is when its high amps, i can hear that sizzling bacon sound, when its low I don't get the bacon I just get the noise of the gas.
Any light?
something easy I can change like is it a faulty torch? or a faulty earth cable likely?
Its' at the point where I'm next going to ask to borrow my mates newer EWM and swap things about (earth, torch etc.) and if that's any better on the same car then it has to be something wrong with my machine in which case I will take it to someone to look at. but if im being a muppet im happy to own up to it and fix it myself if it saves me a bit of cash lol