Arc Force. What is it?

[adri123]

First day on MMA and I played around with the Arc Force setting to see what happened.

Have no idea apart from some googling what it is but higher Arc Force setting seemed to work better for me.

Is it a bit of a 'do you like Marmite?' question?

Seems like maybe.

Cheers

Adri

 

[Shedendman]

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/what-is-arc-force.35513/

 

[AdrianH]

Then I guess you are getting to close to the work or tending to push into the weld pool.

I think Arc force is the ability for the welder to judge to much of a voltage drop and bump up the amps to stop you sticking.
think of the arc as a variable resister, when the arc is present. The closer you get the smaller the resistor and smaller the voltage is there across the arc.if it thinks the arc is to small therefore to small a voltage it will lift the current to stop the arc from going out and the rod sticking.

It's how I read it anyhow.

Adrian