Benefits of Pulsed TIG Welding for Stainless Steel

This may come as a surprise to you, but did you know that pulsed TIG welding comes with a large number of benefits that you wouldn’t normally see in TIG welding processes? Here at Canaweld, we would like to explain some of these advantages in detail and why it may just be the right choice for you and your next project.

Change in Quality of Results

Do you weld stainless steel? Are you in need of a process that yields better results? If so, chances are pulsed TIG welding might be what you need to start doing. This technique will lower cycle times and reduce costs, making for a better experience overall.

The main challenge of welding stainless steel lies in control. Essentially, you want to obtain good fusion while also balancing out:

• Heat input
• Travel speed
• Arc stability
• Rust & warping

Challenges

TIG has been and will always be a great way to control the variety of different variables that working on stainless steel comes with.

When it comes down to it, stainless steel just does not adequately dissipate heat when being worked on. Rather than dispersing it evenly, stainless steel often holds heat where the arc is concentrated. This can, consequently, lead to warping and rust. Warped steels get trashed, wasting a bunch of time and material spent on the project alone.

Benefits of Pulsed TIG

The large majority of manufacturers are very much aware of the fact that TIG welding improves the results of welding thin stainless steel. They may not know, however, that conventional TIG can’t pulse faster than couple of times a second. That is until the newer generation of TIG inverters were revealed, offering pulses of as fast as 1000 pulses per second!

No matter which way you look at it, higher pulsing rates produce better results. This is because this type of pulsed welding increases puddle agitation which, in turn, creates a better quality molecular grain structure inside the weld. Additional benefits to using this type of pulsed welding include:

• Reduced heat input
• Improved directional control
• A narrower weld bead
• A smoother ripple effect in said weld bead
• Higher travel speed

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