I re-set my mig to 19V and 250. I think I had no problem with the speed this time. Maybe I can bump that up a little more. I do know that going from 17V to 19V caused three things in my newbie assessment: (1) The welder fan turned on a lot (fan?), (2) I got a lot of splatter that I was never getting...

The faster the wire speed the better the penetration? Ugh...it just seems like the speed is running away from me. I guess it is back to practice, practice, practice. Thank you for the clarification on penetration (depth of fusion). I now understand "cold" as well, which is why my destructi...

This is great stuff. I'll try these suggestions tonight when I get back home. I do know I have the correct wire diameter set (.030) and I believe I have the right gas flow as well (I have a new flow meter that I want to install this weekend with the ball in the tube instead of the original needle va...

I bought a Miller Multimatic 200 Series a few months ago. I live on a farm/ranch and just wanted to learn welding instead of searching and hiring people when I needed something to be fixed/fabricated. Pretty much every night I have gone down to the barn and did random joining of scrap metals. I beli...