Wireless Remote Best Practices
The passage of information has been key throughout time. In the picture aside, the british mark I tank, during the great war,had no radio installed. It relied instead on carrier pigeons instead.
Fortunately, we have radio to communicate with our welding machine through our wireless welding remote. however, there are rules you should ablige to.
These rules will shadow the way people count cards on the card game twenty one. We will assign values to conditions.
Favourible conditions will be given a +1. normal conditions will give us neutral or zero. And finally, unfavourable conditions will give us a -1 or even -2. Mind you, there are few +1’s and many -1’s
I will give a remote system a facevalue a score of +4 out of the box. And we will treat the score +-0 as end of line (no function)
Above and Beyond Practices
Receiver positioned above welder +1
Repeater System +3
Using Stinger and hand remote is positioned six feet up with a good path +1
Helper holding hand remote sideways five feet off ground +1
Neutral Practices
Receiver Cable strain pointing down +-0
Poor Practices
Every 100 feet -1
Deep Pit -3
Inside Building (metal walls) -3
Receiver positioned equal or below the top of welder -1
Hand Remote on pipe laying flat magnets pointing towards the ground -1
Receiver cable strain pointed anywhere but down -2
These values will be adjusted over time to depict true experience. I believe it will help not only you, the user, but us, the developer, to measure remote system performance.
SAE & Classic Correct 4 Prong Wiring
Before this tutorial, ensure you have read and installed flyback diode tutorial.
This tutorial is to confirm that your machine matches the wiring of the OEM four prong (L14-20R) often found on Classics and SAE's for the supplied dk rheostat receiver.
If you have a third party 5 Prong installed, read the next tutorial.
Failure to confirm or follow the steps to be mentioned may void warranty.
picture to the left indicates the two prongs we are to use The one in circled in RED is the (Y) prong. The Y is tied to the negative of the bridge rectifier by way of wire 600. The one in circled in BLACK is the (W) prong. The W prong in good order is often attached to the blue wire of the main shunt coils by way of the remote switch
These two wires could in theory be switched around and still work with an oem 150 watt Rheostat 64 ohm resistor. However, with this receiver, it requires to be installed correct to oem and maintain ground on the Y prong.
To measure or confirm, a multimeter set to measure dc voltage can confirm the polarity. Red probe on the slot opposite the only l-shaped slot. And the negative probe on the slot which is next to the flat part of the l-shaped slot. best I can explain it. Working properly, your measurements will be positive. In my case 57vdc at low idle, 120vdc at high idle. As well, you can confirm that the measurement goes away if the remote toggle switch is set to local.
Failure to have these in this wiring scenario, will result in receiver damage.
USB Side Thumb Remote Tutorial
If you have a side thumb remote attachable to your hand remote by way of usb, read the following:
Pitfall #1: Do not attach or use your side thumb when you intend to use Up5 Down5 (red and green buttons)
Pitfall #2: Remember which mode your hand remote is in. check max amps in dial mode to jog your memory)
To get into side thumb mode, make sure you are in three turn dial mode, attach your side thumb, clip both loops together, and turn your thumb dial all the way up. It will say “SIDE THUMB OK!”
Now, your main dial is deactivated and your buttons have the possible functions:
1) green button hold with the main dial not max is hotstart
2) main dial at minimum then pressing both buttons kicks you out of side thumb mode (back in I guess if you side thumb is on and left all the way up)
3) main dial max and ““holding”” red lets you set your max amps on the side thumb only
4) main dial min and ““holding”” green lets you set your min amps on the side thumb only
PROTIP #1: If the side thumb min and max are opposite of what you would like, you can set min during red max hold, and set max during green min hold.
PROTIP #2: If you have a second mode, second calibration enabled, to flip calibrations, your main remote dial must be in the max position during hand remote startup. Otherwise, it will remain in the previous mode
Wireless Remote Best Practices
The passage of information has been key throughout time. In the picture aside, the british mark I tank, during the great war,had no radio installed. It relied instead on carrier pigeons instead.
Fortunately, we have radio to communicate with our welding machine through our wireless welding remote. however, there are rules you should ablige to.
These rules will shadow the way people count cards on the card game twenty one. We will assign values to conditions.
Favourible conditions will be given a +1. normal conditions will give us neutral or zero. And finally, unfavourable conditions will give us a -1 or even -2. Mind you, there are few +1’s and many -1’s
I will give a remote system a facevalue a score of +4 out of the box. And we will treat the score +-0 as end of line (no function)
Above and Beyond Practices
Receiver positioned above welder +1
Repeater System +3
Using Stinger and hand remote is positioned six feet up with a good path +1
Helper holding hand remote sideways five feet off ground +1
Neutral Practices
Receiver Cable strain pointing down +-0
Poor Practices
Every 100 feet -1
Deep Pit -3
Inside Building (metal walls) -3
Receiver positioned equal or below the top of welder -1
Hand Remote on pipe laying flat magnets pointing towards the ground -1
Receiver cable strain pointed anywhere but down -2
These values will be adjusted over time to depict true experience. I believe it will help not only you, the user, but us, the developer, to measure remote system performance.
The Wizard of RodDecember 5, 2019
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