Cold Welding This Podcast Together

January 14, 2023 Hosted by Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Will this podcast hold together? Or will the tig welder that Stephen is modifying tear the podcast apart at the seams? Only 555 timers can save us!

Adding Cold Welding Function to any Welder

  • Cold spot weld function
  • Most tig welders interface with a 5 pin foot controller
    • 3 pins for potentiometer – analog signal telling how much amperage
    • 2 pin switch for initiating the arc
  • Made a circuit to spoof the footswitch
    • 555 timer to set the duty cycle
    • Monostable mode
    • Capacitively coupled to allow for single button presses
  • Range: 1ms to 100ms

Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!