I have an older Fanuc Arcmate 100i with an RJ3 controller and a Lincoln Electric Power Wave 455. I have had some troubles with being able to produce good quality welds. My first problem is that the wire feeder speed seems to be off because I am welding 1/4" Stainless Steel and I set it to 450 inches/minute and the tips would get clogged. I then decided to keep on increasing the feed speed until I reached 800 inches/minute. This seems very high to me and still does not seem fast enough because when the weld is finished the wire is almost inside the tip. Also the weld starts off wide and the beginning and becomes narrower at the end. I was wondering if anybody might know what is causing this issue and how it should be fixed? I attached a picture of the welds it is making.
Thank You.
Uneven Welds
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cpiequip -
August 28, 2017 at 11:14 PM -
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How is the power source connected and configured? Are you sure, that you are not working in some Job mode? In that case, the WFS would be ignored and all parameters must be set in the power source and saved as a Job, which then can be selected by the robot.
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If I was to guess, I would say these welds were done using 250 to 500 ipm. Definitely not 800 ipm.
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Thanks for the input but I ended up figuring out and it was a simple mistake on my end. I had the wrong weld process chosen so when I changed it to the correct process it worked great.