Talk:Welding power supply

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[edit] CV power supply design

User:Dr. Crash added the following text to GTAW on December 24, 2005, referring to the power supply used in GTAW:

This is in contrast to GMAW or MIG welding that use constant voltage power supplies. The actual technology may be as simple as a saturable-field transformer followed by diode rectifiers to obtain DC current if desired, or may be a complex switching-mode power supply, sometimes called an "inverter" power supply.

I don't think this should be part of the GTAW page, since it's getting rather technical. Also, since it's unreferenced, it probably shouldn't be put anywhere until it's verified with a source. Finally, I'm not sure how to incorporate it into this article, so I'm putting it here for the time being. --Spangineer^es (háblame) 22:11, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rectifiers

"Because the output of the generator can be direct current, these older machines can produce DC from AC without any need for rectifiers of any type."

Ahem, such machines use a commutator as a rectifier, they are not rectifierless. Tabby (talk) 04:28, 28 December 2007 (UTC)