Working in a code shop, we ran alot of vertical mig. Pipe, structural, valves, nuke, yes nuke. The power of pulse. Yes, x-ray, mag particle, dye check, bend test. Proper consumables, great miller machines. Tremendous lead welders and engineers that wrote AND tested the procedures.
I would have turned that heat up more that’s way to cold you can always tell by listening to it and you can also tell it’s wetting in decent but not the best it could be a lot hotter