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Originally Posted by Paul_Gauthier
Anyone know anything about PowCon mig welders. Any good???? Brought a used one home to test the other day and no joy. While the basic mach would power up there seemed to be no power to the wire feeder and mig gun. There is an empty fuse socket on the back of the wire feeder unit, maybe the problem??? I was "guaranteed" that it works as it was "inspected and tested" by my welding suppliers repair facility. Ya right. Brought it back the next day. He wanted $450.00 with a new roll of wire.
So I am still looking for a mig.
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1-install the fuse and you should have power to the drive. I can email u with the fuse type, etc. upon request.
****the 2 prong spade female/male connection for gun power-to wire feed, if loose, will not power the gun contactor
*****the machine CAN run on single phase---but it's not happy about this, and supposedly is hard on the machine. It's not the same machine-at all, on 1 phase.
2-I've owned a Powcon 300-since new, 1989, in shop environment, mig, air-arc and stick process. Also used with 3 phase in field, inside cogen. boilers; carry it thru the small man door, and get set-up.
Very, very pleased with it. Invertor tech. allows for better, hotter more controllable welding.....saves 80% of the transformer monster's power. 70# power supply instead of 570#--400 amp machine. Does excellent job with stick, short arc, pulse & spray MIG--better than any big old monster, I've ever run.
3-What I understand about Powcon:
-first US company to license the Kempi inverter tech. Miller Elect. bought Powcon--for the Kempi license and Powcon's expertise on inverters. (Lincoln tried and failed with their inverters---throughout the 90's. Lincoln's SST tech.--now, is supposed to be pretty good. If/when I get a new DC inverter--it will be a Miller. Miller supports the customer, much better than Lincoln.)
-Every US nuke sub had 2 Powcons onboard for repair welding--starting in the late 70's.
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