Miller Synchrowave 200 first use wont weld?

[grenade inspector]

So last night I finally got around to hooking up my synchrowave 200 that I've had sitting in my garage waiting to unwrap for a couple months. I hooked up the gas, the 220, plugged in the pedal, the torch, and the ground, clamped the ground to a piece of angle iron, set the lever to dc tig, flipped the on switch, set the amps to 170 went to weld and nothing? wtf? I get no gas flow unless I hit the purge and I hear no fan and cant even get and arc between the torch and the ground clamp, what did I miss?



thanks all, hopefully this is some stupid error on my part not being familiar with this machine

[ssealeycpa]

Is your foot remote plugged in correctly and threaded on tightly? The foot remote is what triggers the preflow of Argon and energizes the torch. Other than that, is there a circuit breaker on the back? (I'm at work so I cannot look at mine right now but mine has always worked good). Good Luck

Also - why don't you try the stick welder to see if you can isolate the problem. I belive that the button on top (above the handle for stick/tig positive and negative) defaults to Tig so you would have to push it to weld with a stick.

[grenade inspector]

Thanks for the help Steve, I got to thinking about it that it could only be the petal after you mentioned it so I went home and checked and I had gotten in on clocked somehow, fixed that and all in now right with the world, thanks

[RS_Customs]

Cool, glad you got it working.

Just so you know, the fan will rarely comes on. I beleive it has a temp sensor. You really have to be pushing the machine. I find it to be an accomplishment when it comes on lol.

Robert