Lincoln Electric IM8002 POWER WAVE MANAGER User Manual
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Training Profiles
Chapter 11. Training
IM8002
Power Wave® Manager User Manual
11.5
When a Weld Profile has one or more training files associated with it, the gray icon ( ) next to the Weld
Profile number appears as a star icon ( ). Click the plus icon ( ) to expand the Weld Profile and view
the training files created. The training files use the date and time naming convention and are stored in the
folder selected under the Preferences button (page 4.1). See page 11.7 for details on viewing the limits
calculated for the Weld Profile and for the individual training files.
To train a Weld Profile:
Procedure
Details
1.
Click Production Monitoring > Training
in the navigation tree of Power Wave®
Manager.
The Training section opens (Figure 11.1).
2.
Click the Start training button at the top of
the window.
The system goes into Training Mode and does not
record new weld history. This helps maintain
production data integrity for the Production
Monitoring™ and CheckPoint™ software
applications.
NOTE |
The system clears any unsaved weld
history data from the Production Monitoring™
server computer or the CheckPoint™ data center.
3.
Click Yes to send the power source into
Training Mode.
The top of the window now displays the text:
Waiting for next weld to start.
4.
Select the Weld Profile you want to train by
using the method chosen for this Welding
Power Source on the Weld Profile selection
tab under Production Monitoring >
Configuration.
See page 10.4 for details on the Weld Profile
selection tab.
5.
Physically make all the welds necessary to
set the accepted values for this Weld Profile
(typically between three to five welds).
If you have short welds to train, you can train them
in succession with a short pause in between. If,
however, you have long welds to train, train them
one at a time and verify the data has transferred
before beginning the next training weld.
NOTE |
After you complete a training weld, the
computer must read the data from the Welding
Power Source. If you start a new weld before
Power Wave® Manager reads this data, the new
weld may not be recorded.
In general, it takes about one second to read data
from every 63 seconds of welding. This means a
very long training weld lasting 21 minutes could
take up to 20 seconds to be transfer to the
computer.