I purchased a XMT 304 CC/CV welder used. This is a multi process welder, one welder that will do everything I want to do (except TIG aluminum).
I have TIG welded steel and stick welded steel with it and now I am trying to use my Spoolmate 3545 and SGA 100 Control to MIG weld aluminum.
So far the only way I have gotten it to work is to connect my foot
control to the 14 pin plug and stand on it while I weld with the spoolgun.
I set the funtion to MIG and the voltage control to panel.
There has to be a better way. How can I connect my SGA 100 Control
directly to the XMT« 304 CC/CV so I don't have the foot control following me around.
I asked the Miller tech and he said, "I have a few questions for you. What mode do you have the XMT in (mig)? If it is in the mig mode, the XMT is looking for a contactor signal before it will give you output. There is no way to hook it up to turn the output on when you pull the trigger of the spoolgun. There is only one way to make this work. You will need to purchase the SGA100C and put the XMT in the V-sense mode. The SGA and 3545 spoolgun were not desighned to work with this machine. The 30A spoolgun and WC-24 were designed to work with a XMT 304."
Now my gut tells me you should be able to do this without buying yet another $300 item. The foot control is just closing a circuit or something like that, since the welder is set to panel, telling it to give power to the output. I have an after market foot control, so I don't have a serial # to look up the wiring diagram of the RFCS-14 foot control to see what is happening when it is pressed down and held.
You know the issue is you don't want a "HOT" spoolgun went you are not welding with it.
I welcome any thoughts on this. I guess I could rig up a contactor in a box to my SGA100 and use the "V-sinse feeder" mode if that is the only way.
Rush
I have TIG welded steel and stick welded steel with it and now I am trying to use my Spoolmate 3545 and SGA 100 Control to MIG weld aluminum.
So far the only way I have gotten it to work is to connect my foot
control to the 14 pin plug and stand on it while I weld with the spoolgun.
I set the funtion to MIG and the voltage control to panel.
There has to be a better way. How can I connect my SGA 100 Control
directly to the XMT« 304 CC/CV so I don't have the foot control following me around.
I asked the Miller tech and he said, "I have a few questions for you. What mode do you have the XMT in (mig)? If it is in the mig mode, the XMT is looking for a contactor signal before it will give you output. There is no way to hook it up to turn the output on when you pull the trigger of the spoolgun. There is only one way to make this work. You will need to purchase the SGA100C and put the XMT in the V-sense mode. The SGA and 3545 spoolgun were not desighned to work with this machine. The 30A spoolgun and WC-24 were designed to work with a XMT 304."
Now my gut tells me you should be able to do this without buying yet another $300 item. The foot control is just closing a circuit or something like that, since the welder is set to panel, telling it to give power to the output. I have an after market foot control, so I don't have a serial # to look up the wiring diagram of the RFCS-14 foot control to see what is happening when it is pressed down and held.
You know the issue is you don't want a "HOT" spoolgun went you are not welding with it.
I welcome any thoughts on this. I guess I could rig up a contactor in a box to my SGA100 and use the "V-sinse feeder" mode if that is the only way.
Rush
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