Lincoln Electric IM649 manual Pulse Wave Shaping Principles, Appendix Overview, Appendix a

Appendix A PULSE WAVE SHAPING PRINCIPLES A-1

A.1 APPENDIX OVERVIEW

This appendix provides a series of discussions on pulse wave shaping principles and the development of custom GMAW pulse waveforms. The contents of this appendix are arranged as follows:

Paragraph No./Title		Contents Description
A.2	GMAW Pulse Overview	How the pulse waveform transfers weld droplets to the
		weld surface
A.3	Adaptive and Non-Adaptive	How WFS and primary wave shape parameters effect
	Mode	welding
A.4	Pulse Wave Design Process	Flowchart and step by step descriptions of the pulse
		wave design process
A.5	Primary Pulse Waveform	How peak current, peak time, frequency, and
	Components	background current effect weld droplet transfer
A.6	Secondary Pulse Waveform	How ramp up rate, % ramp overshoot, tailout speed,
	Components	tailout time, stepoff amperage, and background time
		effect weld droplet transfer
A.7	Application Exercise	Sample development of a power wave welding program
		using Wave Designer

WAVE DESIGNER