Talk:Welding power supply

CV power supply design

User:Dr. Crash added the following text to GTAW on December 24, 2005, referring to the power supply used in GTAW:

This is in contrast to GMAW or MIG welding that use constant voltage power supplies. The actual technology may be as simple as a saturable-field transformer followed by diode rectifiers to obtain DC current if desired, or may be a complex switching-mode power supply, sometimes called an "inverter" power supply.

I don't think this should be part of the GTAW page, since it's getting rather technical. Also, since it's unreferenced, it probably shouldn't be put anywhere until it's verified with a source. Finally, I'm not sure how to incorporate it into this article, so I'm putting it here for the time being. --Spangineer^es (háblame) 22:11, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Rectifiers

"Because the output of the generator can be direct current, these older machines can produce DC from AC without any need for rectifiers of any type."

Ahem, such machines use a commutator as a rectifier, they are not rectifierless. Tabby (talk) 04:28, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Sometimes. But, consider a Homopolar generator. It doesn't use a commutator as a rectifier. :-) Miguel Escopeta (talk) 21:30, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

But that's not used for welding.~~~ Lkingscott (talk) 11:00, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

ac or dc

The basic power supply design will take AC power from the utility mains and convert it to DC for the welder"

the most basic machine uses ac current it doesnt recitifiy it to DC........ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.198.15.95 (talk) 09:15, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Arabic

Article translated into Arabic. Arabic users, please check and correct if necessary. 196.1.70.203 (talk) 13:57, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

wire welding machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW3-nDrXB38 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.161.76.196 (talk) 07:20, 11 June 2014 (UTC)