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Lorch Welding Notes
Lorch Welding Notes
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High-quality operating concepts enable the user to adjust dynamic properties of the welding power
source for MIG/MAG standard welding processes. The article is thematically concerned with which
parameters can be summarized under the term "dynamic" for modern inverter power sources and
which process engineering effects arise thereby. The technological and practical benefits are consid-
ered.
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Electronically controlled welding power sources requires a great deal of experience and numer-
can replicate the described physical relation- ous welding tests. See Figure 16.
ships between the static characteristic and the
inductor effect. Moreover, they can break Once the optimal numeric values for the pa-
through the energetic symmetry of the conven- rameters are found for an operating point, they
tional choke, because the choke only seemingly can also be carried out in each case for other
(virtually) exists within the control structure. In operating points, which, for example, are ad-
modern digital welding power sources, an al- justed by changing the wire feed speed. The
most limitless number of variations of parame- combination of all these parameters with a
ters can be applied to the welding process; common leading parameter, for example, the
Figure 7. Thus, the process influencing prop- wire feed speed will then result in a synergy
erties of a conventional welding power source characteristic or a welding program.
are not only reproduced, but also significantly This means that an adjustment of the leading
improved. parameter entails the simultaneous adjustment
of all linked parameters, whereby the coordina-
tion of the parameters is maintained and the
welding process continues without hindrance.
Figure 7: Example of parameters for the virtu- The wire feed speed is a direct leading parame-
al choke of a digitally controlled welding power ter for this purpose, because the set value rep-
source resents the direct reference value for the wire
feed and at the same time is the leading pa-
The challenge now is: how does the user easily rameter for synergy control.
tap into these various possibilities with simple
operation? Some users desire another leading parameter,
for example, the average welding current.
These are then indirect leading parameters,
2 Synergy Control Figure 8, because in the MIG/MAG process,
the welding current actually adjusts as a func-
Figure 7 is the temporal waveform of the tion of the wire feed speed and welding volt-
welding current for a MIG/MAG process with age, and not vice versa. In fact, therefore, the
short-circuited material transfer. The arrows synergy control interprets an indirect leading
serve to identify the degrees of freedom pro- parameter as a prognostic value, which is
vided in the control of the welding current for measured and displayed in the welding itself,
this example. Each of these degrees of free- but not accurately controlled.
dom is assigned to a specific parameter, which
influences by its numerical value the welding The average arc voltage can either be directly
current waveform at its current level and in its adjusted or corrected in terms of typical syner-
course of time. All parameters must be gy controls within a certain range in order to
matched in their own numerical value to each achieve an adaptation to different application
other, so as to result in the desired favourable conditions.
welding process technical properties. The coor-
dination of these many parameters is usually A hidden synergy control is advantageous if the
done by the manufacturer of the welding power pre-selection of a particular material/wire/gas
source. This is costly and complex work which combination should not take place, for exam-
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6 Application notes
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