Im a novice welder as well. Been building a new welding table with my Vulcan. Seems like you are moving back and forth quite a bit? As a beginner it seems the less movement the better for me.
I’ve been jumping the gun and really tryinging to get a nice bead profile vs just laying down the weld. I’ve been using it in the synergic setting running at a little bit higher voltage and amperage to melt the metal quicker. I try to move really fast but as you saw some of them came out crappy. But some came out really nice. Just practice and figuring out settings. Thanks for watching!
If you put the thickness knob at 3/8 for 3/8" metal or 10, and then look at the setting info on the lid, you will find that the recommenced setting for 0.45 flux core wire is J/8.5. I brought this discrepancy to the attention of Harbor Freight Technical Support but they had to escalate it to a corporate engineer, I understand. Also, another example of a discrepancy, for instance, is the recommended setting for 0.035 solid wire and C100. On the lid for 240 volts for 1/8" it says D4 but if you set the left knob at 1/8" on the front panel to 1/8" the corresponding point is midway between 6 and 7. Are the synergic settings and the manual settings supposed to be so much different? I understand you are supposed to refer to the chart on the lid for the manual settings and for the synergic settings, you go by the orange highlighted thicknesses that are around the thickness knob. Can anyone explain the discrepancies I have found? Thanks.
Nice progress !!
5 years of mig welder an always did minds up and down an always clean welds.
Very nice! Keep it up!
Im a novice welder as well. Been building a new welding table with my Vulcan. Seems like you are moving back and forth quite a bit? As a beginner it seems the less movement the better for me.
I’ve been jumping the gun and really tryinging to get a nice bead profile vs just laying down the weld. I’ve been using it in the synergic setting running at a little bit higher voltage and amperage to melt the metal quicker. I try to move really fast but as you saw some of them came out crappy. But some came out really nice. Just practice and figuring out settings. Thanks for watching!
How is that 220 plug holding up?
Don’t use the welder all the time but it still works great 👍🏼
If you put the thickness knob at 3/8 for 3/8" metal or 10, and then look at the setting info on the lid, you will find that the recommenced setting for 0.45 flux core wire is J/8.5. I brought this discrepancy to the attention of Harbor Freight Technical Support but they had to escalate it to a corporate engineer, I understand. Also, another example of a discrepancy, for instance, is the recommended setting for 0.035 solid wire and C100. On the lid for 240 volts for 1/8" it says D4 but if you set the left knob at 1/8" on the front panel to 1/8" the corresponding point is midway between 6 and 7. Are the synergic settings and the manual settings supposed to be so much different?
I understand you are supposed to refer to the chart on the lid for the manual settings and for the synergic settings, you go by the orange highlighted thicknesses that are around the thickness knob.
Can anyone explain the discrepancies I have found? Thanks.