Lincoln Electric IM8000 CHECKPOINT - Manual (Page 22)

Chapter 1. General Information Requirements and Network Capacity
1.6 CheckPoint™ User Manual IM8000
Network Capacity
Networks and Internet connections have a limited amount of bandwidth for sending data. Each Welding
Power Source uses a small amount of bandwidth. In order to estimate the total bandwidth on your
network, you can multiply the number of power welding sources by the data quantity of data packets
described:
ƒ Every 20 seconds, each power source sends a status update to the CheckPoint™ data center; the
data packet is about 1 KB in size.
ƒ If a power source has completed a weld, or multiple welds, every 92 seconds it will send the new
data; the data packet is about 2 KB per weld.
ƒ If there is an occurrence of a power source event or fault, every 66 seconds it will send the new
data; the data packet is 0.5 KB in size per event.
In the event the network or Internet connection goes down due to unexpected problems or scheduled
maintenance, the Welding Power Sources will continue to collect and hold the welding data until the
network connection is reestablished.
Each power source has enough internal memory to hold welding data for 1000 welds. Once the Internet
connection is reestablished, all welding data will be sent to the CheckPoint™ data center. If more than
1000 welds are made before the Internet connections is reestablished, only the data from the last 1000
welds will be saved; data for the oldest welds will be lost.
STOP | If the power source is turned off before the Internet
connection is reestablished, all welding data will be lost.