

UShip uses cookies to ensure you get the best site experience. IM Weldanpower World's leading marketplace. I then made a mistake when I pushed down on the brushes and shorted it to the metal frame. I started it the next day no power again. I turned it off and was planning on using it the next day. I tried pushing down on of the brushes and it started working. I went to use it a few weeks ago and it would not produce power or weld. In either case, the Weldanpowers were not a sophisticated machine with the circuitry the more modern machines have, just a very basic welding power supply.I own a Lincoln Weldanpower AC It was working fine 10 months ago. My own Weldanpower sits home as standby power for the hosue as much as for welding. My buddies ran their 230 Amp Weldanpower machines for years, and simply could not kill them.

The 230 Amp DC weldanpower machines saw more use with heavy equipment mechancis on their field service trucks and with some contractors. There is an E 7018 electrod emade for use with AC welding current, but I have never run any. Electrode for AC only would likely be 6011 (something of a fast freeze rod with good penetration) and E 6013, for thinner gauge material. All ot these uses typically were doing light welding and AC-only was not a problem. The 150 amp weldanpower used to be popular as a homeowner's or farmer's machine, and some saw use with "signhangers"- shops which put up signs on businesses. 12 volt current from the battery or charging system excited the field of the welding generator. The welding generator field is mounted on an extended crankshaft, no outborad bearing being used in the generator. The weldanpower machines were basically overgrown portable gensets. I own a Lincoln Weldanpower 230 Amp DC machine that I bought new in 1987. IMO, the Weldanpower series fo machines are probably the simplest engine driven welders.
