You are the best person to talk to and I understood something from him that I did not understand before. You are truly one of a kind. Your smooth style. Thank you. forward
Really good, NO...The best description about AC balance and Freq I have found on youtube. I will rewatch this with the wife so she get this too. Thank you!
Great information with a great explanation of electrical process that goes into AC tig! This is all the basic science I wish was explained to me years ago when I was starting tig! Thanks for taking the time to share very detailed information in an easy to understand way!
Hi from the netherlands. This is the most useful explenation video i have ever seen. I recently bought an Parweld XTT 212 ac/dc, and beginning to weld aluminium. Thanks for your tips.
Brad, been a smaw welder for some time, since 1973. Going into tig with my new HTP 221. Am learning what you are teaching in this video. Thank you for producing this material. Am one of those who are grasping the explainations here and learning on my new TIG welder, the HTP 221 Invertig. It is an excellent choice for those thinking of purchasing a TIG welder and am convinced I made a wise choice of a power source. Will be making videos of my own soon. Excellent and again, thank you. Mike
Again I say Thank you for the videos, the art of TIG welding ,without knowing or understanding the basics, can be crazy confusing and frustrating and your doing fantastic works in explaining them.
I’ve watched a lot of welding videos over the years. Your contribution is fantastic and needed. I now finally truly understand the frequency and balance settings. Thanks! Please keep sharing. Your teaching skills are top notch. Joel.....
I'm from Greece, I watch your videos in great detail, but the bad thing is that I do not know English very well 😂😂 and I understand half of it, so continue so that we, the beginners, can also learn.👍🙏
Well done! Just got into welding about 10 months ago, a hobby welder and haven't had to weld any aluminummmm in about 8 months. Went to weld up an aluminum hose hook last weekend for the garage and was having a hell of a time getting my settings correct. I did manage to get the piece welded but wasn't a top notch job. Thanks for refreshing my ole mind on the proper way to set the Freq./Balance. Unless you've been welding like forever or do any particular metal welding on a daily basis we tend to forget the proper procedures when it comes to aluminum. Steel is a walk in the park, at least for me it is.
ocd definitely! Thank you and I appreciate it. You’re absolutely right, if you don’t do it for a while you definitely scratch my your head a little bit. Thank you for watching and I appreciate the comment!!🙏🏻
I have been watching welding videos for years, and many are very good, but your explanations have been the best. You are well organized and establish your explanation from inception. I use the Miller Dynasty, as you mentioned you do. Would you consider doing a video showing your settings for that machine? I would also like to see how you clean aluminum for welding. Thanks for your excellent video and your time.
Nice work. My only suggestion: if you're going to use music on future videos, please turn the volume way, way down. I look forward to seeing more of your work!
I just came across this video..WOW great explanation of everything I was confused about. I'm still new to the game but staying at it. I have an AHP 201XD that I tig with. I'm learning all I can from these videos and I thank you so much. Welding classes are not in the budget at this time so I'm self taught. Thanks again and I'm a subscriber to your channel now.
Wow, best video explanation I've seen so far. Very visual, awesome. I'm a beginner struggling with tig welding on aluminium but thanks to that video I'm starting to connect the dots and see light in the darkness. Thank you so much man!
It is good to hear someone who wants to talk through systematic variations. In a earlier video you asked for suggestions for content. Here are some suggestions. much like you compared the inch dimensions of cups, it would be useful to visually compare different tig torches, by size and other variations. The number size system is a bit obscure. Also, "EN pushing current into" is a bit ambiguous; do you mean the tungsten is negative and therefore electrons are flowing into the part? I would guess the electron flow into the part is what heats it. This is doubly important to clarify because, as you mention, different welders vary in their polarity descriptions. thanks.
I have a syncrowave 210 and I’m just learning how to weld aluminum and the settings are confusing. Your video helped to better understand how to adjust the freq and balance. I’m running 3/32 tungsten and 1/8 aluminum.
Mr. greens boat tanks and aluminium welding for sure! Thanks for watching. This video has been really glitchy, so I hope it’s fixed. I appreciate the support.
Update, i can easily weld thin aluminum intercooler piping now. I fixed a broken tab on a cast aluminum intake manifold as well. Buying a multiprocess TIG welder was worth every penny. Its paid itself off 3 times already.
Man I got so surprised because you looked exactly like my nephew, unfortunately passed away at 30 due to skin cancer. I really like your videos and I have subscribed as well, this is one of the explanation I have seen. Currently running a WIA machine, miller owned 200 amp acdc machine to learn to fit weld. I am having a lot of issues welding 3mm Aluminium as the tungsten keeps balling and the arc goes everywhere and melts the corner joint, can you help me set up settings. AC FREQUENCY is set to 50 and AC balance to 35. It is doing my head in.
Great video. Going to call out one item though, your drawing for showing 30% EP and 70% EN show the percentage varying by amplitude instead of time. The '%' of EN/EP is describing 'Duty Cycle', and thus is describing a Time variable (not amplitude). Not trying to nit-pick, but we should make that clear for everyone as not to propagate incorrect information. Enjoying your channel so far. Didn't you do a podcast with Jody and Roy a few months back?
Check out This Old Tony's channel with a video called "My TIG Is Breaking Up With Me". He hooks a scope up to his tig welder so you can see the effects of frequency, balance, etc. As stated above, not trying to nitpick. Great video!
#HOURGLASSFAB Geat video. I recently acquired an AHP and have thus far been doing mild steel. I will however be attempting to do some aluminum within the next week or so. This is a very good video explaining A/C Freq & Balance. Keep up the good work.
Hi Brad, I have a question for you about material thickness and settings, I'm going to be using 40mm Aluminium Box section with a thickness of 3mm, I will mitre the corners and weld these pieces into square frames. I will be using a GYS pro tig 201, great video here thank you.
Sir, what is the setting that you would recommend welding 3mm aluminum? Considering that I've cleaned the material? What are the settings for 1. Balance 2. Amp 3. Tungsten thickness and type Thanks
Very good video. You have a gift for explaining complicated ideas in a clear and simple manner. However, you need to improve the audio portion, too much echo.
Hello and thank you for the discriptive video .. I can use this information so thanks ! I am now much better informed as to the posttive and negative effects :.. that said I am new to tig and bought a harbor freight Vulcan.welder omnipro 200 ... it has an ac balance from 50-90 and this is confusing me .. the frequency is easy to understand but the way the machine is set up it’s hard to tell what the ac balance is doing ... I am starting off a project of welding a small cast aluminum head .. it’s a very hard project even for a good welder ! The material goes from thick like 1/2” to thin like 1/16” in most areas I need to weld .. the reason being to strengthen up the thinner areas which are around the bowls of the intake valve ports... ( not important to be able to picture in your head ) but I’m having problems with the weld getting so hot that the entire casting looks like a saggy bag before it gets a shiny weld puddle ... I know enough to get me introuble and not enough to get the job done correct .. My guess is that problem is coming from improper cleaning of the surface .. so I ground off the area and started again .. it just seems like I can’t get the job done .. so I got a piece of aluminum stock 1/8” thick coupon and threw down a few beads .. then I go to the casting and it all goes south instantly .. there are many problems here .. one is the shape and area I need to get at is like down in a hole .. second is the casting goes from thick to thin quickly .. and I probably have the settings on the machine set wrong help !!!!!!!! Please
HourGlass, only item not really mentioned, but I think is worth noting exactly in this level of facts about alum. AC TIG is that the arc cone of a sharpened tungsten is wide- by nature; compared to a small round or even a full bulb (not outside profile of the electrode shaft) which gives a narrower focus of the arc.... [counter intuitive] Coupling these facts with frequency is very important related set of conditions: Super sharp point @ 180Hz will still be wider arc cone than a small ball/blunt/round electrode at 120-30Hz- so.... that relationship might be in your presentation too?
have a jegs tm 200 mma ac welder trying to weld aluminum intercooler piping. all its dials are different from other videos. i have no frequency settings. Using 100% ARGON on 110v. either i burn through it or if there is a gap between parts at all it just drills holes. tried low amps, more cleaning less penetration(i think scale goes from -5 to +5) to no success. using a 3/32 red tungsten but ordered blue 1/8.
I have a thermal dynamics pro 300 inverter. Do you have any experience on this machine? Any magic setting you had good results with? I have a decent set up and get good results but i will always try something new!
This guy has got to be one of the best out there, and they are all good. His instruction and guidance is really second to none, but all that razzle-dazzle just blows it away, and really messes with your concentration. It's jarring and disorientating. Tone it down at the intro and exit, and cut it out during the video. And yeah, we do have to hear it again! Thanks!
Hey boss I have a couple questions. My main project is intercooler pipes, but for now I’m trying to prepare by practicing on flat coupons. What settings would you recommend? amps, hrz, balance , cup size. My setup, inverter machine, 3/32 lenth tungsten, 1/16 4043 filler, very clean materia, settings are: square wave, 85amps, 150hz, balance 35%, pre flow 02, post flow 8seconds, 15cfm flow, #5 gas cup on a #9 ck torch. Currently I have a little issue with arc stability, sometimes it jumps on start or stop even with a super low gap. Am I running too much gas, or too big of a cup? Also If using 1/16 filler, should I switch to 1/16 tungsten? Thank you!
I have a Yeswelder CT2050 that is new. I’m building the cold side of my intercooler out of 065 aluminum and I’m struggling with the settings on my machine. It has a built in plasma cutter that quit working after the first job I did. I’m getting frosted up snot from my aluminum welds. I feel like I’ve tried every setting the machine has, but I must be doing something wrong looking for help not thumb thuggish comments. Thank you
Love the video , but loose the music or at make it where it doesn't blow you out of your seat, was steady turning music down and turn it back to hear what you was saying
Why would I not run the highest frequency that my machine is capable of and then just dial in the penetration with the balance? When would a less precise arc be beneficial?
Hi. You said if you have ac balance to much then the rod balls up, what happens if you have it too low. I’ve got a jasic ac/dc with pulse at work. Great on stainless. Only used once on aluminium for a play. The ac balance goes to 65 so I just left it on 33. The frequency goes to 200 so I just had it on 100. Why used ac pulse rather than ac. It was on 3mm aluminium
Hey I’m running tig for aluminum but for the life of me I can’t figure it out. Keep burning threw . Got them mechine set to like 170 30% at 70amps 3/32 electrode . Primeweld 110% argon
Why would you recomend changing the balance with thinner material? Isn't it better to set the balance just on enough cleaning action and get more ore less penetration via the Amps?
Bram Ruijter balance is directly related to cleaning (Electrode positive) vs penetration (electrode negative) . Thinner material requires less penetration. Therefore requires less electrode negative. Settings are extremely important on AC and it makes or breaks the weld. Oxide cleaning width is directly related to cup size and gas flow.. not cleaning action. When you get into Advanced AC, settings change for every joint fit up, every material thickness as well as if it’s in or out of position. Changing one little thing massively changes how the material welds. If electrode negative struggles to penetrate on thicker material because your balance is set to low on the EN side.. you have a problem.
@@hourglassingenuity103Thanks for your reply. My machine has no ac frequency settings. I'll try to weld some thin aluminum tomorrow, see how low I can set the cleaning action and still get a puddle. Is it a good idea to pay with pulse settings too get a narrower puddle?
Since this is about balance, please balance your audio man! Your music is way louder than your talking so i had to turn the volume up and down constantly during the video and unfortunatly i dont have a foot controller for it ;-)
jan einar wold about 100 comments regarding the audio. I understand, changes have been made and from this point forward I will have audio all figured out. I apologize for the inconvenience!
