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Originally Posted by MikeJohns  Hey Wynand
I was just talking to the local welding construction yard about the high maintenance cost of the inverter based gear. Whereas the transformer based was pretty indestructable, they have a variety of gear all top end in use continuosly and all their inverter based welders have been failing regularly in the high current side of the electronics, and they are getting pretty peeved with it.
Have you heard much about this?
They are beautifully light though, it might be our 240volt on machines designed for 210.Cheers |
Hi Mike,
No such problems locally here. In fact, I was at SASOL 2 awhile ago visiting my son who works there as a foreman and he took me on a walk-a-bout at the new project they were putting together for the fuel refinery, and I was amazed by their welding plant.
At ground level the welding machines sat on rows above each other
(4 machine high) and at that specific point I would estimate about 80 - 100 of them, with cables leading all over the plant to the operators. All them are industrial rated MILLER inverter packs and I actually asked the youngster if these things lasts, and he said they would not change it for anything else - indestructible....
05-15-2007, 01:52 PM
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