Hello all
I was left surprised yesterday.
These Oerlikon Citoline 300T MIG machines look big and solid machines. Yet I found the machine had to be at max voltage tap available (coarse-2, fine-7) to break into spray. By the time I'd wound-back the tweaked-up the wire feed speed to get the correct spray-cone, that weld condition proved useful at 292A 29.6V (my calibrated meter)
BTW - gas is Ar-15%CO2-2%O2 (thanks Randy Z.)
Anyway - my surprise is that the machine does not have a bit of "headroom" on the voltage.
Every other MIG machine I have used which has the power to break into spray has at least a couple of "fine-clicks" on the voltage of "headroom" when getting the spray condition (Kemppi, etc).
Anyone tell me the whys-and-wherefores about this?
Rich