Koike Sanso Kogyo WEL-HANDY MINI STRONG User manual

Portable Automatic Welding Carriage for fillet welding BUS01A06
WEL-HANDY
MINI STRONG
OPERATION MANUAL
KOIKE SANSO KOGYO CO.,LTD.
For every person who will be engaged in
operation and maintenance supervision, It is
recommended to read through this manual
before any operations, so as to permit
optimum operation of this machine.

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INTRODUCTION
Thank you very much for purchasing this product. Read this instruction
manual thoroughly to ensure correct, safe and effective use of the machine.
Read the manual first to understand how to operate and maintain the
machine. Cooperation between colleagues in the workplace is essential for
safe, smooth operation.
Make sure you read, understand and take all the necessary safety
precautions.
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
This product is designed to be safe, but it can cause serious accidents if not
operated correctly. Those who operate and repair this machine must read this
manual thoroughly before operating, inspecting and maintaining the machine. Keep
the manual near the machine so that anyone who operates the machine can refer to
it if necessary.
■Do not use the machine carelessly without following the instructions in the manual.
■Do not use the machine until you have thoroughly understood the explanations in the manual.
■For safety, leave the installation, maintenance, inspection, and repair of the machine to a trained
person who has thorough knowledge about welding machines or to a qualified operator.
■For safety, leave the operation of the machine to a person with complete knowledge of the instruction
manual and sufficient skill.
■For safety education, make use of respective lecture meetings sponsored by the Welding Society and
Welding Association, as well as by headquarters and branches of related scientific societies and
associations. Make use of qualification tests for welding engineers and welding technicians as well.
■After reading the manual, keep It together with the warranty within reach of people concerned. Read
the manual again as necessary.
■Contact our dealers or our branch office, sales office, or local office for any obscure points.
■When this manual is lost or damaged, place an order promptly with our dealer for another copy.
■When transferring the machine, be sure to attach the instruction manual to the machine to transfer it
to the nest owner.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR MACHINE OPERATOR
Operators and repair staff of this machine must completely understand the
contents of the instruction manual and they must be qualified and educated to
handle this equipment.

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Symbol
Title
Meaning
General
General caution, warning, and danger.
Be careful not to get your
fingers caught.
Possible injury to fingers if caught in the insertion
part.
Caution: Electric shock!
Possible electric shock under special conditions.
Ground this equipment.
Operators must ground the equipment using the
safety grounding terminal.
Pull out the power plug
from the outlet.
Operators must unplug the power plug from the
outlet when a failure occurs or when there is a
danger of lightning.
Caution against bursting
Possible bursting under certain conditions.
General
General warning.
Caution: Hot!
Possible injury due to high temperature under
certain conditions.
Caution: Ignition!
Possible ignition under certain conditions.
Caution: Magnet
Generating a magnetic field and magnetic waves.
Wear light shielding
goggles.
Be sure to wear light shielding goggle when
looking at welding arcs.
Wear dust/gas mask.
Wear a mask when dust, smoke, or gas is to be
generated during work.
Do not lift.
Lifting the carriage is prohibited to prevent an
accident due to falling.

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CONTENTS
1. Safety Information·····························································································1
2. Safety precautions ····························································································2
3. Locations of safety labels ···················································································6
4. Features and specifications ················································································7
4.1 Features······························································································7
4.2 Configuration························································································7
4.3 Specifications························································································8
5. Method of operation ··························································································9
5.1 Name of each part···················································································10
5.1.1 Main unit of welding carriage·····························································10
5.1.2 Operation panel·············································································· 14
5.2 Preparation and procedure for welding························································16
5.3 System connection diagram ······································································18
5.4 Applicable welding machine and signal adaptor ············································18
5.5 Operational precautions············································································ 18
6. Maintenance··································································································19
6.1 Maintenance and inspection······································································19
6.1.1 Daily inspection··············································································19
6.1.2 Monthly inspection ··········································································20
6.2 Recommended spare parts ·······································································20
6.3 Trouble shooting ·····················································································20
6.4 Warranty································································································ 23
7. Wiring diagram·······························································································24
7.1Electrical diagram ···················································································24
7.2 Assembly drawing of circuit board ······························································25
7.2.1 L-DSP-A circuit board······································································25
7.2.2 L-MD-A circuit board········································································ 26
8. Assembly drawing of WEL-HANDY MINI STRONG···············································27
9. Parts list········································································································28
9.1 Main body and inside parts········································································28
9.2 Outside parts·························································································· 30
9.3 Electrical parts························································································32

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1 Safety information
Most accidents are caused by negligence of basic safety regulations during operation, inspection,
and maintenance. Carefully read, understand, and master the safety precautions and preventive
measures written in this manual or on the machine before operation, inspection, and maintenance
of the machine.
■Carefully read thin manual before use.
■Conduct installation of motive power source on the primary side, select the location of installation,
store high-pressure gas. install pipes, store products after welding, and dispose of waste in
conformity with laws and your in-house regulations.
■Precautions are provided In this manual for safe operation of the machine and prevention of
injury to you or other people or other damage.
■Improper handling of the machine will cause injury or damage at various levels. The levels are
classified into three categories, which are represented by respective caution symbols and signal
terms to call people's attention. These symbols and terms are used in the same way on the
warning labels stuck to the machine.
Caution symbol
Signal terms
Definition of terms
DANGER
Improper handling Is very likely to cause death or serious
injury.
WARNING
Improper handling can cause death or serious injury.
CAUTION
Improper handling can cause injury or physical damage.
It is also used to point out dangerous habitual action.
Notice sign
The notice sign notifies machine operators and maintenance
men of precautions as to parts of the machine or peripheral
equipment that will lead to breakdown.
The serious injury mentioned above refers to loss of eyesight, injury, burns (high/medium
temperature), electric shock, bone fracture, poisoning which leave an aftereffect or require
hospitalization or regular treatment at a hospital far an extended period of time. The injury refers to
a wound, burn, or electric shock which do not need hospitalization or regular treatment at a hospital
for an extended period of time. The physical damage refers to damage to assets and extensive
loss due to damage to the machine.

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2 Safety precautions
WARNING
Strictly observe the following to prevent accidents resulting in serious injury or death.
■This welding machine is designed and manufactured by taking safety into
consideration. However, never fail to observe the warning and precautions
described in this instruction manual, otherwise accidents leading to serious
injuly or death can result.
■Keep people out of the space around the welding machine and working area.
■The welding machine generates a magnetic field around itself. Such a magnetic
field affects certain types of sensors and clocks. For the same reason, any
person who have a pacemaker in his heart shall not approach the welding
machine in operation or the welding space unless he has obtained doctor's
permission.
■For safety, leave the installation, maintenance, inspection, and repair of the
machine to a person who has thorough knowledge about welding machines or
to a quafified operator.
■For safety, leave the operation of the machine to a person with complete
knowledge of the instruction manual end sufficient skill.
■Do not use this machine for any purpose other than arc welding described in the
instruction manual.
■Do not remodel the machine.
■Check the safety around the machine before operation to prevent accidents.
■Be sure to hold the handle when carrying the machine.
■Wear leather gauntlets when touching the machine during welding or right after
operation.
Do not touch the welded surface antil it has cooled.
WARNING
Strictly observe the following to prevent electric shock.
■Do not touch the charged section; otherwise fatal electric shock or burns can
result. When the power on the input side is turned on, the Input circuit and the
inside of the welding machine are charged. Even if the input power is turned
off, the capacitor may have been charged. When the welding power is output,
the electrode and base metal, as well as the metal portion in contact with
these, are charged.
■Never touch charged sections.
■The welding power supply case and base metal, as well as jigs electrically
connected to them, shall be grounded in conformity with the law (Technical
Standard for Electric Equipment) by a qualified electric engineer.
■Turn off all power supplies on the input side by means of switches in the switch
boxes before installation, maintenance, and inspection. The capacitor will not
discharge completely right after the input power is turned off. Check that no
vohage is remaining before maintenance or inspection.
■Periodically conduct maintenance and inspection. Repair damaged parts before
resuming operation.
■Do not use cables with Insufflcient capacity or damaged cables whose

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conductors are exposed.
■firmly tighten and insulate cable connections.
■Firmly connect the welding cable on the base metal side at a location as close
as possible to the base metal.
■Do not use the machine with the welding machine case or coser removed.
■Be sure to cover the input and output terminals before use.
■Do not use broken or wet gauntlets.
■Never fail to use a life-line when working in high places.
■Turn oft power switches of all devices and input-side power supply when the
machine is not used.
■Do not wear wet clothes.
■Do not stand on or touch the wet floor.
■Do not use the machine outdoors when it is raining.
■Do not leave the machine outdoors after use.
■Be sure to install a fuse or breaker on the input power supply side.
■Check the supply voltage of the machine before use.
The tolerance for the input supply voltage is plus or minus 10% of the rating.
Use of the machine out of the folerance is prohibited.
■The metal receptacle (plug) on the tough-rubber sheath cable is threaded.
Tighten it firmly.
■The plug of optional power supply cable is the 3P-type with a ground wire
■Be sure to ground the tough-rubber sheath cable of the machine.
■Turn off the power and stop operation in the following cases, and ask an
engineer with special knowledge of electricity to repair.
*Broken or worn-out cables
*Damage due to water leakage or other liquid
*Malfunction of the machine inspire of operation in conformity with the
instruction manual.
*Breakdown of the machine.
*Abnormal performance of the machine which requires tune-up.
■Ask an engineer with expertise to maintain, inspect, or repair the machire.
■Please make sure that any foreign material does not attach to the connector of
the machine nor to the plug of the power cable when the plug of the power
cable is connected to the machine.
Foreign materials can cause short-circuits or melt the connector.
CAUTION
Use protective gear to protect you and others from arc light, scattered spatters/slugs,
and noise.
■The arc light includes harmful ultraviolet rays and infrared rays, causing
Inflammation of eyes or burns.
■Scattered spatters and slugs can damage your eyes and cause burns.
■Noise can cause hearing difficulties.
■Wear light-shielding goggles or hand shield, which blocks light sufficiently, for
welding operation or monitoring welding.
■Wear protective goggles to protect your eyes from spatters and slugs.
■Install a protective curtain around the welding site so that arc light will not reach
the eyes of people around the site.
■Wear protective gear such as leather gauntlets. clothes with long-sleeves, leg
cover, leather apron, helmet, and safety shoes.
■When the noise level is high, wear a noise-proofing protector.

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CAUTION
Use protective gear to protect you and others from fumes and gas generated by
welding.
■Welding generates fumes and gas. Inhalation of such fumes and gas can
damage your health.
■Welding operation in a smell space causes deficiency of oxygen, which is very
likely to cause suffocation.
■To prevent gas poisoning and suffocation, use the local waste disposal facilities
stipulated by the law (lndustriat Safety and Health Law snd Regulations to
Prevent Damage due to Dust) or use an effective inhaler.
■When the welding space is small, ventilate the space sufficiently or wear an
inhaler. Have a trained watchman monitor welding.
■Welding operafion near places where degreasing, washing, or opraying is
conducted may lead to generation of harmful gas. Do not conduct welding near
such places.
■Welding zinc plated steel sheets or other coated steel sheets will generate
harmful fumes. Remove the coating before welding, or wear an inhaler before
operation.
CAUTION
Strictly observe the following to prevent gas cylinders from falling or bursting.
■Gas cylinders, when they fall, can cause accidents leading to death or injury.
■High-pressure gas is contained in gas cylinders. Improper handling of gas
cylinders can cause a burst or emission of high-pressure gas, causing
accidents that lead to death or injury.
■Handle gas cylinders in conformity with the law (High Pressure Gas Control
Law).
■Do not expose gas cylinders to high temperatures.
■Set gas cylinders in a special cylinder stands to prevent the gas cylinders from
falling.
■Never generate arcs on gas cylinders. Do not hook the welding torch on gas
cylinders, or do not allow electrode to touch gas cylinders.
■Do not bring your head close to the discharge port when opening the valve on
the gas cylinder.
■Attach a protective cap to gas cylinders when they are kept unused.
■Use a gas flow rate controller made or recommended by a welding machine
manufacture.
■Read the instruction manual for the gas flow rate controller before use, and
strictry observe the precautions.
■Never use a gas cylinder from which gas is leaking or a broken gas cylinder.
■Use gas cylinders only for specified purposes.
■DO not apply oil or grease to the valve on gas cylinders.
■When the valve on gas cylinders is hard to open, contact the dealer.

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CAUTION
Strictly observe the following to prevent injury due to rotary section.
■Do not bring your hands, hair, or clothes close to the cooling fan of the welding
power supply or the feeder roller of the wire feeder; otherwise you can be
caught in them.
■Do not bring your head near the end of the welding torch during wire inching;
otherwise the wire may stick in your eyes.
■When the spool of wire is released, you can get hurt.
■Do not use the welding machine with its case or cover removed.
■Ask a trained person who has thorough knowledge of welding machines or a
qualified person to remove the case for maintenance, inspection, or repair.
Install a protective fence around the welding machine to prevent people from
getting near carelessly.
■DO not bring your hand, fingers, hair, or clothes close to the rotating cooling fan
or the roller of the feeder.
■Do not bring your head near the end of the welding torch during wire inching.
■Secure the end of the wire with the wire stopper on the spool when storing or
moving the spool of wire or when setting it in the wire feeder.
■When inserting the spool of wire into the wire guide on the wire feeder, firmly
hold the wire so that it will not be released.
CAUTION
Strictly observe the following to prevent fire, explosion, or burst.
■Spatters and hot base metal right after welding can cause tire.
■Imperfect connection of cables or imperfect contact on the route of the electric
current on the steel bar and other base metal can cause fire because of
heating due to resistance.
■Arcs generated on the container of gasoline or other inflammables can cause
explosion.
■welding of sealed tanks or pipes can cause bursts.
■Do not do welding in a place where scattered spatters will be in contact with
inflammables.
■Do not do welding in a place near inflammable gas.
■Do not bring hot base metal right after welding close to inflammables.
■Welding on ceilings, floors, an walls may cause fire on the hidden side. Remove
inflammables from the hidden side.
■Firmly tighten cable connections, and firmly connect the welding cable on the
base metal side at a location as close as possible to the base metal.
■Do not weld gas pipes filled with gas.
■Do not weld sealed tanks or pipes.
■Provide a fire extinguisher near the welding place to prepare for the worst.
■Do not weld a container that has inflammables inside.
■Do not have a lighter, matches, or other inflammables with you during welding.

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1-3
3 Location of Safety labels
Safety labels and labels for correct operations are stuck to the machine.
■Carefully read labels before operation and follow the instructions decried on them.
■Never peel off the labels. Keep them clean and legible at all times.
!! !
WARNING
WARNING CAUTION
ELECTRIC
SHOCK
NO LIFTING
BEWARE
OF MAGNETICFORCE
1-1
1-2
1-1
1-2
1-3
Year of manufacture

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4 Features and specifications
4.1 Features
This carriage "WEL-HANDY MINI STRONG" was developed to make it available even for a
non-skilled welding operator, to carry out horizontal fillet welding (down laid welding), vertical fillet
welding and overhead welding by easy operations.
Major features are as follows:
1) Compact, Light weight, Durable and Low gravity.
2) By the adoption of a powerful magnet in this carriage, the tracing reliability and the traction
power have been greatly improved. Therefore, in addition to horizontal fillet welding, various
welding construction including vertical fillet welding and upward fillet welding has been realized.
3) It is able to operate plural machine by improved tracing reliability and automatic stopping
function.
4) The direction changeover switch permits rightward/leftward traveling.
5) The roller arm is possible the change of taking in and out with one-touch operation due to the
fixation ceremony by the screw.
6) The height of the guide rollers can be widely adjusted. (cf. Figure 3.)
7) A rough indication of speed is displayed by a digital meter. It can be used for exploit the
indications of welding condition.
8) By pressing the Limit switch while stopping of carriage, carriage moves at constant speed and it
becomes easy to align.
9) It is equipped with an overload detective function of the motor, to minimize the damage to
the work caused by continuing the welding of the steel plate, when this carriage is stopped
by the load from outside in any case.
The above features are expected to exhibit their effects in terms of "welding efficiency" and
"operation by unskilled workers."
4.2 Configuration
1) Main unit 1set
2) Accessories
*Hexagon wrench (M6/M5) 1pc each
Instruction manual 1pc

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4.3 Specifications
Item
Specifications
Model
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Driving method
Rubber roller 4 wheeler driving (permanent magnet absorption
type)
(Lower plate traveling system, traveling surface is steel plate)
Traveling speed
100~800mm/min /3.9～31.5inch/min
Torch adjustable range
Horizontal angle: 40~55° Swept forward angle/sweep back
angle : 5°
Up and down : 45mm/1.77inch Back and forth : 45mm/1.77inch
Welding reserve
Total start and end :About 260mm/10.2inch
Applied position
Horizontal position / Vertical position
Profiling method
Stand plate press method
Control source
DC24V
Electric power supply and
interlock
Torch switch signal (connected to wire supply device)
(A contact output of Self-holding type Relay)
Operation switch
(operation panel)
Travelling direction changing over switch, Digital Meter,
travelling speed adjustment switch, START/STOP button
Arc mode changing over switch (MANUAL, ARC ON,ARC OFF)
Power cable(Option)
Power cable,Arc signal cable all in one type
Main body of carriage→interconnecting power→supply port (16M)
(52.5feet)
Wire Feeder (6.5M)
(21.3feet)
Traceable range
Gentle curve line (more than 5m/16.4feet radius)
Weight of carriage main body
8.2kg/18.1lb
Traction force
16kg/35.3lb
Dimension
L305 x W260 x H300mm /L12.0 x W10.2x H11.8inch

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5 Method of operation
WARNING
Kindly take care about following things to avoid getting an electric shock.
⚫Kindly remove input plug from outlet while checking, dis-assembling or
repairing and turn OFF the control source while leaving. If it is necessary to
carry out checking in the energized state, professional engineer having
enough knowledge and skill about electric handling should go since there
is risk of short circuit, getting electric shock.
⚫Do not use welding equipment without case or cover.
⚫Kindly use input voltage in the range of DC24V
There is risk of short circuit due to failure of printed board on operation panel.
⚫In case of crack in insulation cover of power cable and torch cable, do not expose it to high
temperature. There is risk of short circuit due to tearing of insulation covering.
⚫Kindly weld below the rated current and usage rate of torch to prevent dielectric breakdown due
to overheating.
⚫Kindly place power cable and torch cable in proper manner so that they are not stretched or
pulled. There is possibility of breakage of insulation by damaging holding part and connector
part due to pulling.
⚫Do not throw or drop main body of carriage. There is risk of damaging insulation by breaking.
⚫While connecting to power cable plug to main body, kindly connect after verifying that foreign
object is not touching to connector of main body, power cable plug .There is risk of connector
erosion due to short circuit by foreign object.
WARNING
Strictly observe the following to prevent burns.
■Never directly touch the torch nozzle, tip, orifice, insulation cylinder, and the
surface of the carriage which are very hot right after welding.
WARNING
Kindly take care about following things to avoid falling off of carriage
⚫Do not lift the carriage by holding its Handle. There is risk of falling off
carriage while holding carriage by handle, if there is shock impact at
carriage or if mounting screw of handle is loose.

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CAUTION
Set the welding power switch in the "No Self-Holding (or No Crater Treatment)"
position.
■When the switch ot the welding power supply, which is to be connected to the welding machine,
is set in the “Self.Holding (or Crater Treatment)” position, the welding arc will not stop even if
the welding operation is stopped.
5.1 Name of each part
5.1.1 Main unit of welding carriage
(1) Slide unit assembly
The arc point can be adjusted toward UP/DOWN or FRONT/REAR.
The each stroke is 45 mm / 1.77inch.
※If you want to use a standard slide unit, you can not use the installed to the top of the hole
of the bracket as shown in the figure below. If you install a standard slide unit with the holes
on the top of the bracket might sandwich the hand between the handle.
The top of the hole in the bracket only if you use the four-hole slide unit (StNo.T61000645) is
used.
Fig.1 Name of each part
Not use (standard slide unit）
The four-hole slide unit

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(2) Torch holder
Insert the exclusive use torch mounting section into the torch holder to secure it.
WARNING
Secure the insulated section of the torch when mounting it.
■When the conductive section is secured, a short circuit and/or electric shock can
result.
(3) Guide roller and arm
Press them against the vertical plate for welding by tracing.
Kindly fit doorway of Guide Roller Arm as shown in Figure 2.
Traveling direction
Traveling direction
Fig.2 doorway of Guide Roller Arm

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The height of the guide rollers can be adjusted by changing the attaching method.
The height can be adjusted in the range of -18mm(0.709inch) ~ 16mm(0.630inch) and
66mm(2.599inch) ~ 101mm(3.976inch) from the contact patch of a tire.
(4) Limit switch (“Fine tuning button for positioning” at the time of stopping of carriage)
These are provided on both sides of the carriage, serving as (welding) stop button.
By pressing Limit switch at the time of stopping of carriage, carriage moves towards opposite
direction of pressed Limit switch only while switch is in pressed state. Kindly use it while fine
tuning movement at the time of positioning of carriage.
CAUTION
Do not apply impact to the limit switch.
■When impact is applied to the limit switch, it can be broken. When the limit switch
is broken, the automatic stopping function will not work, and arcs and the
traneling carriage will not stop.
(5) Operation panel
The detail is shown below.
(6) Receptacle
Kindly connect power cable to this receptacle.
The cable is connected between the control panel and the wire feeder, as well as power supply.
(The cable is divided in the middle into one for the wire feeder and another for the input power.)
Fig.3 Height of guide roller
16mm =0.630inch
18mm =0.709inch
66mm =2.599inch
101mm =3.976inch

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WARNING
Never fail to ground the clip.
■ The grounded clip prevents short circuits or electtic shock which results from a
short circuit in the carriage, etc.
(7) Driving wheel (Rubber roller)
(8) Torch angle adjusting bolt
Used to set the torch angle. Loosen the bolt and swing the torch for setting within the range of
40-55 degrees.
(9) Handle
Lever to turn ON/OFF the handle-magnet for transporting the carriage.
Lifting the handle turns OFF (detaches from the steel plate) the magnet built into the carriage.
Releasing the handle turns ON (adsorbs to the steel plate) the magnet.
WARNING
Do not lift carriage by holding handle
●Do not lift carriage by holding its Handle. There is risk of falling off
carriage while holding the carriage by handle, if there is shock impact to
carriage or if mounting screw of handle is loose.
CAUTION
When the carriage is set, the magnet is automatically adsorbed
(turned ON).
● When this carriage is set to a steel plate, the magnet turns ON automatically. As the
handle works, please make sure that your fingers or clothes may not be smashed.
In addition, please pay attention to the movements of that handle with adsorption.
CAUTION
When the handle is lifted up, the adsorption of the magnet turns
OFF automatically.
● When the handle is lifted up, the carriage is detached from the steel plate, and the
adsorption of the magnet turns automatically into the OFF condition.
CAUTION
Possibility of sandwiching the hand between the slide unit is
there .
●If the mounting position of the slide unit is in the upper or middle
position , there is a possibility that sandwich the hand between the
handle and slide unit at the time of carriage set . Please be careful.
(10) Heat insulator plate
It protect the drive roller and fuselage from heat and sputtering.

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5.1.2 Operation panel
WARNING
Kindly take care about following things to avoid getting an electric
shock.
■ Kindly remove input plug from outlet while checking, dis-assembling or
repairing and turn OFF the control source while leaving. If it is necessary
to carry out checking in the energized state, professional engineer having
enough knowledge and skill about electric handling should go since there
is risk of short circuit, getting electric shock.
⚫Do not use welding equipment without case or cover.
⚫Kindly use input voltage in the range of DC24V
There is risk of short circuit due to failure of printed board on operation panel.
⚫In case of crack in insulation cover of power cable and torch cable, do not expose it to high
temperature. There is risk of short circuit due to tearing of insulation covering.
⚫Kindly place power cable and torch cable in proper manner so that they are not stretched or
pulled. There is possibility of breakage of insulation by damaging holding part and connector
part due to pulling.
⚫Never fail to turn OFF the power switch (1) before attaching or detaching the metal plug.
⚫When you remove the plug, put rubber cap on the receptacle to prevent dust and dirt.
⚫When you found dust and dirt in the receptacle, remove these before connecting electric power
cable plug.
V3.32
LED Display
Fig 5 Operation panel

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(1) Traveling direction changing over switch
It is possible to select traveling direction of carriage. When switch position is neutral, carriage
cannot travel or move.
(2) Traveling speed adjustment switch
Kindly turn carriage in clockwise direction to increase speed of carriage and turn it in anti-clock
wise direction to reduce speed of carriage.
(3) START/STOP button
It is welding Start/Stop switch.
If START/STOP button is pressed while carriage is stopped, carriage starts traveling at the same
time of display of torch switch signal.
If START/STOP button is pressed while carriage is travelling, carriage stops at the same time of
stopping of torch switch signal.
※When an error occurs, the error display is reset when you press the START / STOP switch .
However , error if there is still cause of the error occurs again . Check each error Solution ,
please remove the cause .
(4) Digital Meter
A rough indication of the carriage running speed is displayed by number.
The motor commanded voltage is displayed by division of 1,000.There is no unit.
Digital indication of 50~1000
RDY : It turns ON when electric supply of carriage is ON.
WEL : It turns ON when welding signal is displayed while carriage is travelling.
BSY : It turns ON during carriage is operating regardless of display/non display of welding
signal.
ARC : It turns ON at option of MANUAL, ARCON in (5) arc mode changing over switch.
ERR : It turns ON at generation of operation error. At this time corresponding error number of
error content is displayed on digital display.
In error return method, kindly turn OFF the power supply by removing power
cable plug from operation panel and then after verifying as per above mentioned dealing
method, kindly insert the plug in operation panel and turn ON electric supply.
Error display
Error contents
Dealing method
Motor Overload Error
Please make sure that no load would be
applied to the motor.
Truck backup error
(Parameter)
Please make sure not to turn OFF the
power in the truck operation or in fine-
tuning move in the limit switch.
After the change if you want to back up
the parameters, please OFF the power to
the truck is stopped.
After an error occurs, it will return to the
Parameter at the time of the backup to
one before.
Parameter : Parameter that can be
arbitrarily set change
System parameter : Internal parameter
that cannot be arbitrarily set change
Truck backup error
(System parameter)

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(5) Arc mode changing over switch
There can be 3 modes of changing over in 3 point changing over switch as shown below.
MANUAL : Kindly use it in wire inching and arc test. Wire comes out only while switch is on
MANUAL.
 Kindly take care as Arc is generated if torch end is touching welding material.
ARC ON : Kindly use this position in normal welding operation.
Carriage starts traveling automatically after start of welding by pressing
START/STOP button.
ARC OFF : Only traveling of carriage is possible without welding operation by pressing
START/STOP button at this position.
CAUTION
Please do not press the START / STOP button while you are down to MANUAL
side.
●Press the START / STOP button while you are down to MANUAL side , and back to the
ARC ON continues to output the arc signal , and then traveling trolley and to ARC OFF.
Again , the running of the arc output and the truck and press the START / STOP button
will stop . Please be when subjected to the above-mentioned operation and restart to turn
OFF the power once.
5.2 Preparation and procedure for welding
Conduct welding in the following manner, while referring to the Fig. 6 “System connection diagram”
and the operation procedure in item 5.1.
WARNING
Strictly observe the following to prevent electric shock.
■Turn OFF the control power and welding power, and then conduct operations from
(1) to (4) shown below.
■When you remove the plug, put rubber cap on the receptacle to prevent dust and
dirt.
■When you found dust and dirt in the receptacle, remove these before connecting
electric power cable plug.
(1) Remove rubber cap, then connect the control cable to metal socket on the control panel.
(2) Mount the exclusive use torch on the torch holder.
(3) Connect the torch to the mating wire feeder.
(4) Connect the 2-core metal plug of the control cable to the metal socket of the wire feeder and the
input power plug to the nearest outlet.
(Note) The only interfacing signal with the welding power supply is the torch signal, which is an
output from the A-contact point at a salt-holding type.
CAUTION
Set the welding power supply side in the “No Self-Holding (or No Crater
Treatment)” position.
■When it is set in the “Self-Holding (or Crater Treatment)” position, arcs will not
stop even if welding is completed.