welder

Hey guys, I bought this powermig 180c a ferw years ago and during a little welding project of mine it started to act up. While welding it was as if someone turned the current knob all the way down. I stop and mess with it some and try to weld on the highest amp setting (which I never go up to)...

So I been given a 130 amp flux core welder and I plan on converting it to real mig/mag but the out put is AC and ready it need to be dc iv ordered a 150 amp single phase rectifier and planned on adding some capacitors to help smooth out the dc. There a a few other modifications I'm planning on...

Hello friends, I am working on a spot welder for making lithium ion battery packs for my projects. The triac gets destroyed whenever I try to weld with it. The two main AC pins on the traic become internally shorted. When I use a 40 watt incandescent light (instead of the welding...