[TheForge] local codes

[Paul]

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:

> Well, i pulled the chain and bought a used Miller XMT 304 CC/cv and wire 
> feeder on ebay in the wee hours of this morning,after a dozen email 
> exchanges with the seller. I emulate Reis again.
> All fingers and toes are crossed.
> If that works out, i gotta sell my Miller 200 MIG, which works fine, and 
> my  funky lincoln 250/250 stick and TIG welder. Along with a giant 
> pedestal grinder. punch press..etc.
> Gee,, gotta bunch stuff to sell now...hate that part.
> Any suggestions, here at the bottom of the economy?..pf
No suggestions as to what to sell but I thought that I would pass on 
some advice that I received from Miller repair techs.  I recently 
resurrected a XMT 304 that had a blown board and some puked electronics. 
In  the course of rebuilding the XMT I called the repair techs and they 
corrected some wrong headed thinking that I had regarding the auto sense 
circuitry. While receiving the info I needed the tech suggested that one 
should always start the machine in the CV position. After the auto start 
sequence is finished and the display reads whatever, change to the 
tig/stick position.
Don't know exactly why, but the process is simple and after replacing 
the power rectifier and two IGBT's and reconstructing the circuit board 
I chose to follow his advice... All that aside, it is a sweet machine 
and a pleasure to weld with.

-- 
Paul Sperbeck  WB9HCO

  "The difference between genius and stupidity is that
genius has its limits." -Albert Einstein
"Life is hard...it's harder if you're stupid" John Wayne - Sands of Iwo Jima

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