RECAP

Let us recollect what we have learnt in the last session.

•Welding

•Types of Welding
Pressure & Non-Pressure welding
•Types of Electric Welding
Resistance, Arc, Electron Beam
Welding
•Resistance Welding

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 RECAP
• Types of Resistance Welding

•Spot Welding

•Projection Welding

•Seam Welding
•Butt Welding
•Upset Butt Welding
•Flash Butt Welding

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 RECAP

•Spot Welding •Seam Welding

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 RECAP
•Upset Butt Welding •Flash Butt Welding

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 OBJECTIVES:-
On completion of this period, you would be able to
understand about.

•Welding Transformer
•Current control methods
•Tapped reactor method
•Moving Coil method
•Saturable reactor method

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 A.C. POWER SOURCES

• A.C Generators

• A.C Transformers

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 A.C. GENERATORS

• Also called as Alternators

• Driven by A.C. motor or Diesel

Engine

• Frequency can be
controlled by
speed of rotation

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 A.C. TRANSFORMER
(WELDING TRANSFORMER)
• It changes High voltage, low amperage power to Low
voltage, High amperage welding power

• Works on principle of
Electro magnetic Induction

• Least Expensive

• Lightest

• Portable

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PARTS OF A WELDING TRANSFORMER

•Frame structure

•Cooling system

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PARTS OF A WELDING TRANSFORMER
•Primary circuit

•Core

•Current control
•Secondary circuit
mechanism

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 WELDING TRANSFORMER
•Cooling is done by oil or by air

•Core is made of Silicon steel

•Primary winding is connected to power source

•Secondary winding is connected to Load

•Drooping characteristics can be obtained by means of

reactance coil

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 WELDING TRANSFORMER
•Secondary voltage of T/F is almost constant

•When arc is struck the voltage drops across

reactance coil.
•Reactance coil controls the welding current

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 WELDING TRANSFORMER

Regulating the welding current:-

1) Tapping reactor method

2) Moving coil method

3) Saturable reactor method

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TAPPED REACTOR METHOD

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 TAPPED REACTOR METHOD
•The output current is regulated by taps on the reactor

•Limited number of current settings is possible

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MOVING COIL METHOD

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 MOVING COIL METHOD

•Distance between primary & secondary windings can

be changed

•More the distance less is the current

•Coil can be moved with moving arrangement

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SATURABLE REACTOR METHOD

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 SATURABLE REACTOR METHOD
•Reactance can be adjusted by changing the value of
D.C Excitation

•D.C is obtained from bridge rectifier

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 SATURABLE REACTOR METHOD
•Control is through rheostat
•If D.C current is more – Magnetic saturation occurs –
Reactance becomes less and vice versa

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 CHARACTERISTICS
WELDING TRANSFORMER

70
60

VOLTAGE 50
40

30

20

10

O
100 200 300 400
CURRENT
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ADVANTAGES OF WELDING TRANSFORMER
•Low Initial Cost

•Work Pieces do not get magnetized

•Low operating cost

•Less maintenance cost

•Noise is less as no moving parts

•Overall efficiency is high

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 DISADVANTAGES OF
WELDING TRANSFORMER

•Polarity can not be changed

•Poor power factor

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WELDING TRANSFORMER

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 SUMMARY
Can You recollect what we have learnt in this session.

Welding transformer

•Tapper reactor type welding transformer

•Moving coil type welding

transformer

•Saturable reactor type welding

transformer
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 QUIZ
Drooping
Welding Transformer should have __________
characteristic?

(a) Constant

(b) Exponential

(c) Drooping

(d) Any of the above

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 QUIZ

Welding transformer works on the principal of?

(a) Kirchoff’s laws

(b) Coulombs laws

(c) Superposition theorem

(d) Electromagnetic Induction

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 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

1. Explain with neat sketch working of Tapper reactor type

welding transformer ?

2. Explain with neat sketch working of Moving coil type

welding transformer ?

3. Explain with neat sketch working of Saturable reactor type

welding transformer ?

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