Video link / Re: Wrong Welder?

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <network-at-neXband-dot-com>

Hey Greg Hunter, all
   I tried my welder to make sure that it does work.  It welded great so 
if all else fails, I have a good stick welder to add to my tool 
colection.  Just for testing, I hooked my pig up to the 240v from the 
100amp breaker(yikes).  Man was I nervous about doing this.  There will be 
a link to a video I shot yesterday of my pig with me pulling an arc.  VERY 
strong when wired straight.  When I try to ballast using the welder, I 
just disconnected one leg of the 240v from the pig and wire it to the 240v 
plug on the welder.  The other side of the plug was wired back to the pig.
   I'll have to check the plate and make sure about the wiring like you 
mentioned.  Ya just never know!
Just in case this link comes through wrong, copy and paste the area 
starting with the first http and end with the first AVI.  For some reason 
it seems that the forum double copies links. 
I'm guessing that I have the right LV terminals being that it throws such 
a massive arc when wired without a ballast.  Let me know what you think.
http://user.intop-dot-net/~network/videos/arc.AVI

Thanks again,
Gregg Adams



You wrote:  

>Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz " 
>
>Are you sure you have the correct 240v taps selected
>on your pole xfmr? I once hooked my ballast up to 2 of
>the voltage adjustment taps (my xfmer had +5% and -5%
>adjustment taps on the LV side), with no connection to
>the main LV lug. I got results similar to yours--weak,
>wimpy sparks from the pig. My, did I feel silly when I
>actually checked the dataplate on the xfmr and figured
>out what I did.
>
>YT,
>
>--- Tesla list  wrote:
>> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz
>> " 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> You wrote:  
>> 
>> >Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry
>> Fritz " 
>> >
>> >Gregg,
>> >
>> >I think your welder is exactly the right sort for
>> >ballasting. Are you sure the welder works OK? Have
>> you
>> >tried to weld anything with it? What do you mean 1
>> >inch arcs? 1 inch arcs from where to where?
>> >
>> >Regards,
>> 
>> You bring up a good question.  I haven't tried
>> welding with it yet but 
>> will try it out as soon as I have some dry weather. 
>> I can tell you that 
>> the internal fan was going when I tried this but I
>> guess that really 
>> doesn't mean anything:)  The one inch arcs was from
>> a rod(on a long pole) 
>> connected to the pig's case, arcing to the HV output
>> terminal on top of 
>> the pig.
>> 
>> Hope this helps
>> Gregg Adams