Quote Originally Posted by performance View Post
The stick out and standoff height is actually too long. You should have about a credit card thickness under the tungsten between it and the metal. The stickout should be 1/4" or less. One thing is possible: that you were varying your arc length (with such a long one), tricking the helmet into thinking the arc was going out.
I didn't try this yet, but I did try adding some pulse to the arc, and I think it helps the mask stay on. Still some funny stuff going on with some flicker, but I just don't think i have the pulse set properly or something. Need to get more experience with everything. I had no idea about the credit card thickness thing, I imagine that would really help me control the pool better but so far I've been paranoid about dipping my tungsten into the metal. I will have to give it a try tomorrow.

Thanks