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Titanium
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2011
- Location
- Oregon coast
This one has me baffled, because I am not knowledgeable in electronics. I called Lincoln Electric and asked to buy a replacement front panel for my Tig welder, an accident with an oxy-acetyline torch bubbled the front panel up a bit, though everything still works.
The gentleman on the phone kindly sent me a front panel from a damaged machine, evidently for free since he never talked $.
But the panel has extra control buttons on it.
So I took the old panel loose and can see that the cables all seem the same though in different locations on the back of the board, you see the board has three levels separated by standoffs and the back two levels are full of electronic gizmoids.
On this page of the manual is my old panel, down just a bit. (Remote Control Connection - Lincoln Electric INVERTEC V205-T Operator's Manual [Page 8] | ManualsLib)
On THIS manual (https://www.lincolnelectric.com/assets/servicenavigator-public/lincoln3/IM937.pdf) about half way down on the left side is the new panel, which has about 4 new control options.
I'm wondering, since the connections are the same, if I'll be doing any damage by hooking up the new panel?
Is it possible that the new features will work, or more importantly, will it hurt my welder?
Thanks,
parts
The gentleman on the phone kindly sent me a front panel from a damaged machine, evidently for free since he never talked $.
But the panel has extra control buttons on it.
So I took the old panel loose and can see that the cables all seem the same though in different locations on the back of the board, you see the board has three levels separated by standoffs and the back two levels are full of electronic gizmoids.
On this page of the manual is my old panel, down just a bit. (Remote Control Connection - Lincoln Electric INVERTEC V205-T Operator's Manual [Page 8] | ManualsLib)
On THIS manual (https://www.lincolnelectric.com/assets/servicenavigator-public/lincoln3/IM937.pdf) about half way down on the left side is the new panel, which has about 4 new control options.
I'm wondering, since the connections are the same, if I'll be doing any damage by hooking up the new panel?
Is it possible that the new features will work, or more importantly, will it hurt my welder?
Thanks,
parts