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[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Advice heeded! Thanks Paul...pf

Paul wrote:
> 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.
>