Attn: All 250/320 ext owners must read!

[redbeard]

Jakeru, you just added a grand to the cost of the machine!

Not to mention a year to the schedule! It will be bad enough being TIGless for as long as the exchange will take as it is.

The function on AC still adjusts cleaning, regardless of the orientation. The % is in () which states it's function It still adjusts percent, likely the same as the previous EXT's. It was reviewed heavily by respected welding industry pros and they felt it was fine. We may change it, but we are at a stage where it won't affect operation or testing. Personally, I feel if you adjust the negative more negative or positive more positive, that is sort of self explanatory.

I personally don't have a problem with referencing the AC balance from whatever point you want: EP%, EN% or 50+/-%, AS LONG AS THE GRAPHIC MATCHES THE PROGRAMMING. The way it is now with the dimension arrows defining the EN portion of the cycle, I interpret that as "EN=x% of the period." Seeing a negative number in that context throws my brain into WTF mode sucking all the intuitiveness right out. I'm sure the pros who use this every day will easily adapt to the machine and won't even notice after a day or two, but like it or not, many of your customers are n00bs and weekend welders who will benefit greatly if the graphic accurately represents the waveform settings.

[Rambozo]

Not to mention a year to the schedule! It will be bad enough being TIGless for as long as the exchange will take as it is.



I personally don't have a problem with referencing the AC balance from whatever point you want: EP%, EN% or 50+/-%, AS LONG AS THE GRAPHIC MATCHES THE PROGRAMMING. The way it is now with the dimension arrows defining the EN portion of the cycle, I interpret that as "EN=x% of the period." Seeing a negative number in that context throws my brain into WTF mode sucking all the intuitiveness right out. I'm sure the pros who use this every day will easily adapt to the machine and won't even notice after a day or two, but like it or not, many of your customers are n00bs and weekend welders who will benefit greatly if the graphic accurately represents the waveform settings.

It is kinda arbitrary and one of the things that varies from brand to brand, so I personally don't care one way or the other. While Miller now does theirs as % NEG and Everlast does % POS it's all the same in the end. I can't say I'm a huge fan of the 50% +/- system used on the 210EXT, but it's really not an issue. Maybe if you had a shop full of different brands it might be nice to have a standard, but really it's no big deal. The early Syncrowave had a knob that went from Max Cleaning to Max Penetration with an arbitrary 1- 10 scale and number 3 was marked Balanced.

What you're saying is you would rather have something like this?



Or this?