Noob here, so please excuse the lack proper etiquette.
I did my homework, (some of it on this board), I know Solar is no longer manufactured bought by century, yada yada...
When I booted my previous tenant from one of my warehouses, I inherited a 2175. I thought wth...dusted it off, put a new pig tail on it, and waddya know the sucker turned on... but with a weird noise.
Open the wire hatch to find that the feed motor was constantly going. From the moment you turn the darn thing on til you turn it off. This happens whether the gun is plugged in or not.
Suspecting the gun (at this point you should get that I'm and engineer, not a welder), I unplugged the gun and connected with a paperclip the two leads where the gun trigger is plugged into, thinking that if the trigger was bad (it looks like it has had better days.) That had no effect, motor was still purring away.
I lost a lot of money to this deadbeat tenant, so it would be nice to recover something, any thoughts on where to go from there? Again, I'm an engineer, so PC boards do not scare me, capacitors, diodes etc...no problem.
I don't want to invest a ton of money or time but this damn thing could weld two school buses together, I ran a nice 2 ft long bead pretty as can be. Just a pain in the arse to turn it on and off each time.
It would be a shame, seems like everything on this welder works perfectly, including all the timing and speed controls.
Thoughts?
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Originally Posted by blawless
