Hello folks, I thought that I had a pretty decent handle on a lot of the consumables and wires that are out there. Then I got ahold of some of this wire: it had been donated to our program by the district Miller facility out of Portland, Ore.
One of our past students had come in and told us that he was going to be testing for a company that was using an all-position 1/16" gas-shielded flux-cored wire and was hoping to hot-rod some of it before going in for his test. This is the only wire that I had on hand that somewhat fit the bill. My past experience with these higher-strength electrodes has been that they don't really run as nicely as many of the E71T-1 wires, but that if you can run the high-strength wires you'll have no trouble with the others.
Up to now I had never run into a FCAW G wire that was run on any current other than DCEP, I have now. Looked up the specifications on this stuff and low and behold it calls out for DCEN. However, after setting it up and working with the various settings a bit I am not quite sold on it's "all-position" designation.
I am curious to hear if anyone else out there has used this particular wire and what their opinions/thoughts are on it. Also, what sort of parameters have you folks been using. I have the ranges that Hobart provides from their site, but I'm looking for some applied settings as well.
Here is the link to the Hobart page:
http://www.hobartbrothers.com/uploads/pdf/datasheets/FabcoXTREMEB3.pdfThanks and best regards, Allan