Thread: Cigweld Weldskill not working

Gday
I suggest you buy a tig torch the tungsten and the arc also need protection by the shielding gas this may have been your problem with starting a arc ,with the machine you have you need a torch with gas control in the handle, the 170hf which my mate owns has high frequency start and a gas solenoid built into the machine which makes welding alot easier.
thanks caveman

Originally Posted by macsko

Oh no I don't use it for stick, I had a tungsten bit I used just to try out the tig style of welding on some scrap. Just don’t have a tig torch

If you buy a tig torch make sure it fits as the couplings in this machine is non standard or some type of Chinese standard!

Originally Posted by boilermaker1

If you buy a tig torch make sure it fits as the couplings in this machine is non standard or some type of Chinese standard!

What a load of BS. The Weldskills use a standard 50mm dinse connector, like virtually every other tig out there.

Well it didn't
we had both the weldskill and the Transarc 145i next to each other and they were diffrent work that one out?

This is the front panel of my 170. Definitely dinse 50 on mine, dunno which one you were looking at!

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Yeh pretty sure they have the 50mm dinse sockets on them. So the torch and shielding gas will help with an arc? Haha I had been thinking that it was incredibly hard to hold an arc and feed any kind of material into it. Also does anyone know of a standalone wire feeder that isn’t $1000+ that could be used with this machine? I’ve had a look and only seen one in “A man’s toy shop” for something like $1999 seems a bit steep.

Wire feeder; This is a Constant Current power source for MMAW and GTAW. A Constant Voltage power source is required for GMAW, FCAW and other wire feed processes.

Or you can plug one into your stick welding handpiece! Nah the conector would'nt fit (joking)!

I truly hope you understand the SAFETY issues regarding welding!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by BenM78

What a load of BS. The Weldskills use a standard 50mm dinse connector, like virtually every other tig out there.

I don' want to be known as a know it all but when you say I talk Bull #### it gets to me and I don't even know you!

went to work on monday and measured the pins on both machines and

The pins on the Weldskill 170 are 12mm
The pins on the Transarc 141i are 8 mm

All the machines I have used in the past which also inculdes a BOC/Kemppi inverter 140 all use 8mm plugs

I have attached photos for inspection!

Dinse 25 has a 3/8 pin, dinse 50 has a 1/2" pin. Your two welders both have 'standard' plugs just different sizes.

I apologise if my call of 'BS' seemed harsh to you.

Having the same problem with my weldskill 170. I was originally told by a repairer that it uses a 220v American power plant and that if more than 240 was coming out of the wall then it would trip the internal safety. I rang CIG and they reckon it's a 240V power plant and it's probably just faulty (not under warranty anymore). How did you fix yours?

Hi, if I remember correctly after further investigation it was indeed an over voltage protection circuit. I didn't fix this myself it was an agent of CIGWELD (or something like that) but he mentioned that the circuit was put in place for protection against peaky portable generators. For whatever reason this over voltage protection was set at too low for some mains conditions (here we see about 245V, at the time anyway), so it might be an idea to have that aspect checked out or do something to reduce the voltage it sees.