I'm the maintenance mechanic at central washington university here in ellensburg wa. Just today we had our mig welder scare the living crap out of a sculpture student. I guess she was welding along and BOOM!.... the prof tried it afterwards and was about an inch into her first weld when again BOOM! (she said she could feel the concrete floor in the foundery shake!) BTW she said it appeared to continue welding.
Is this something that sounds repairable? or is it mostlikely one of the coils on the powersupply shorting due to bad insulation?
The power supply is a linde vi-206. with a newer esab mig35 feeder. I'm still a bit of a welding novice (done lots of oxy/act and mig on steel but thats about all that is taught here) and have only a little experiance fixing large amperage equpment such as this.
Thanks in advance for any help
Jeff Cleveland