Advanced Tig Welding Settings for Aluminum and pulsing with the foot pedal technique unpacked

What are advanced TIG welding techniques?

In this video, we go over advanced settings on a miller dynasty 280 with expansion card.

The expansion card did not come with the welder and is an extra cost but allows for advanced settings like independent amplitude settings for aluminum.

There are other brands of tig welding machines who offer similar features without the extra charge.

Independent amplitude is a setting that allows for setting the electrode positive and electrode negative portions of the AC cycle differently allowing for better electrode life and pinpointed arc etc.

My friend Brad Goodman aka @deepsouthdimestacker on instagram was visiting and gave a rundown on how he sets the miller dynasty 280 for tig welding aluminum.

Brad fabricates and sells dog boxes, dog feeders, and more out of aluminum and his customers want that stack of dimes look.

Brad often uses the pedal pump technique where he pulses with the foot pedal to achieve a stack of dimes look.

Pulsing with foot pedal technique shown on an aluminum dog feeder part

Pulsing with the foot pedal with a PrimeWeld TIG225 - Aluminum lap joint

Pulsing with the foot pedal Technique - Aluminum Tee joint fillet

Pulsing with the foot pedal is just one of many tig welding techniques that get the job done.

Brad uses this technique a lot because it lets him achieve full penetration on outside corner joints while running a fairly heavy bead on .090" - .125" 5052 aluminum.