Don't have anything for itDo you have a circuit diagram for your welder ?
Yeah I'm bit of a novice but if took pics and folk marked on where I'm fine with wiring etc just need picture guidance hahaThe meter needs a feed from welding circuit, you can pick up on the positive and negative outputs on the rectifier, or on the torch power connection at the drive plate for the positive and follow the earth back to its connector to find a negative.
I will say this isn't work that somebody who isn't electrically trained shouldn't be tackling though.
You have got the option to buy a better welding machine in the first place. Spending time, money and effort on trying to overcome the design flaws in an SIP 130 turbo seems a bit pointless to me when you could put the extra towards something that works better straight out of the box.
Thanks for reply that's a mod I can easily do as just basic wiringYou could simply take the metering from the two connections on the feed motor (noting Pos and Neg!) This will give a reading when the trigger is pulled, which is the case with most smaller welders as the voltage to the motor is only present when pulling the trigger. It would be more accurate than the marks on the dial for the wire feed though.
Exactly.No to drive motor so get idea of settings inline with the feed dial helps in future to get same setting
Yeah that's what I want to do , seen post and thought great really would help find settings more accuratlyExactly.
Not sure where Jim is going but the wirefeed meter (Mike's idea) is to get a constant 0V and +V (anywhere up to ~30V) to power the meter, then the signal in (the voltage that it is measuring) is just the +ve feed to the wirefeed motor.
Nothing to do with the welding voltage.
Ah right , baffled nowSorry, my suggestion will work on any conventional MIG where wire feed speed isn't influenced by voltage step setting on the machine.
No good noting wire feed speeds throughout the range as they will change every time you alter volts.
What an awful idea.