Downloading Wave Shapes | Lincoln Electric IM649 guide

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3.4 DOWNLOADING WAVE SHAPES

The Power Wave stores wave shapes in the welding machine controller memory. The memory structure does not allow an upload or download of individual wave shapes. When downloading wave shapes to the welding machine, the entire welding machine memory must be overwritten. Each wave shape must be re-selected for download to the flash memory. Two methods are available to access desired weld files; use the “Upload From Machine” option in the Weld Mode Directory window or (if the weld files are all factory default files) select the “Bundled Factory Default” option from the Flash Custom Waveform window. Any custom wave shapes not specifically selected for download will not be re-written to the welding machine’s flash memory.

When downloading files to a new Power Wave welding machine, be aware that the bundled factory default files in the Wave Designer software may be out of date, but needed for use with older welding machines. Save the old factory default files in a new, “old weld files” directory and access the latest factory default files from the Lincoln Electric web site for use on the newer Power Wave machine(s).

Weld files can be corrupted during upload from a welding machine. If a weld file is corrupted, you will not be able to upload the machine’s weld mode directory.

You can download up to ten custom waveforms to the weld mode directory. The assigned memory slots are Modes 155 through 164. When all ten slots are in use, the only way to install another custom waveform is to overwrite one of the ten allocated memory slots. Use the following procedure to download acceptable wave shapes to the allocated welding machine memory.

1.Select the Flash Custom Waveform option from the Tools menu to display the Flashing PowerWave Custom Weld Files screen.

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Flashing PowerWave Custom Weld Files

This procedure re-programs the custom weld files in permanent memory (flash) storage

It allows welding with custom weld files without Wave Designer in production

This will erase existing custom weld files. It will take a few minutes to complete.

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