machine not drawing arc after jump starting with leeds

By shorthood2006 (****)

Date 10-08-2007 15:27

call bills welder repair in okc.or www.billswelderrepair.com

By downhandonly (***)

Date 10-08-2007 15:33

ground to ground stinger to stinger both machines on dc+? I did this to a friends machine every morning for a week last winter till he could get his starter fixed and never (noticably) hurt his machine at all.

By KSellon (****)

Date 10-09-2007 17:32

Will it go to high idle when you try and strike and arc? Rheostat, reed switch, etc all look operable?
Go to page 8 of this manual, then to problem 2. You will see where it mentions flash exciter fields.
http://content.lincolnelectric.com//pdfs/products/navigator/im/IM276B.pdf

On page 9 after all symptoms have been listed you will see 'footnotes'. The second one will explain flashing.

Is this on the same machine you have been having problems with?

By raftergwelding (*****)

Date 10-14-2007 04:46

i've heard you can fry the pc board by jumping machine like that i never seen it but did hear it i jumped mine everyday for a month on 1 job no big deal

By banshee35 (**)

Date 10-14-2007 16:07

We did this at work with2 sa 200's and burnt up the exciter arm. in the one we were jumping off. put in a new exciter arm and back in business.

By louieRD (**)

Date 10-14-2007 19:09

the machines snappin a great arc now , i had missed a loose wire on the idler board thanks for the responses!

By raftergwelding (*****)

Date 10-15-2007 03:38

i had a loose wire on my 1st board use to come off when i was burning and machine wouldnt idle down would drive me nuts til i figured it out the prongs finally fell out and i got a new board kept the old figured i'd sum1 thats good with a solder gun

By louieRD (**)

Date 10-15-2007 11:20

ya 10-4