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[primrose8]

not sure this is the right place to ask this but welding in my floor pan tonight and wire feed stopped working? when trigger is pressed the relay on the circuit board energises but there is no power at the wire feed motor terminals? will it be the pcb? there is no fuse or anything else to check , anyone any ideas cheers!

[alex-95]

Do you have a Clarke pro 90. This happend to me on saturday.

Edited by alex-95, 15 November 2011 - 06:51 PM.

[primrose8]

hi! no its a 130 turbo i am a electrician by trade and there is no power to my wire feed motor, i think it may be a component on the pcb or the transformer hope someone on here might be able to help, have you looked into your problem yet or found anything?

[alex-95]

My dads an electrician, We found there was a problem on the pcb board. I have asked clarke for a price for a the whole board and it would cost £50.
We did solve it We bought a knew welder.

[primrose8]

looked on a few sites for info and going to check the pcb tommorow, see what i can find out, hope fullt just the transformer or fused link on the board, let you know what i find cheers

[leadly]

Have you tried posting on the mig welding forum?

www.mig-welding.co.uk

Edited by leadly, 16 November 2011 - 10:12 AM.

[primrose8]

hi took out the pcb this morning and checked it for dry joints etc everthing seemed ok run through wiring and checked connections, re-fitted it and still no joy then i noticed the power switch 2/3 was partially between the 2 and 3 , so i pressed it to 2 setting and wire feed works!! must have knocked switch to mid position which stopped the wire feed working, thanks for all the advice away i go!

Edited by primrose8, 16 November 2011 - 12:13 PM.

[Ethel]

It couldn't have tripped the thermal cut out could it? They can take a surprisingly long time to reset.

[primrose8]

thats what i thought at first, but was definately the power switch 2/3 which i must have knocked and was in between (not switching either) cheers though

[BusheyTrader]

I had something similar with my ageing Sip 130T. A combination of 4 push switches gives 6 different power settings. If the one you want isn't pushed fully home, even though it may look it, nothing works...............