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SOFTWARE OPERATION
WAVE DESIGNER
3.4 DOWNLOADING WAVE SHAPES
The Power Wave stores wave shapes in the welding machine controller memory. The memory
structure does not allow an upload or download of individual wave shapes. When downloading
wave shapes to the welding machine, the entire welding machine memory must be overwritten.
Each wave shape must be re-selected for download to the flash memory. Two methods are
available to access desired weld files; use the “Upload From Machine” option in the Weld Mode
Directory window or (if the weld files are all factory default files) select the “Bundled Factory
Default” option from the Flash Custom Waveform window. Any custom wave shapes not
specifically selected for download will not be re-written to the welding machine’s flash memory.
When downloading files to a new Power Wave welding machine, be aware that the bundled
factory default files in the Wave Designer software may be out of date, but needed for use with
older welding machines. Save the old factory default files in a new, “old weld files” directory and
access the latest factory default files from the Lincoln Electric web site for use on the newer
Power Wave machine(s).
Weld files can be corrupted during upload from a welding machine. If a weld file is corrupted, you
will not be able to upload the machine’s weld mode directory.
You can download up to ten custom waveforms to the weld mode directory. The assigned
memory slots are Modes 155 through 164. When all ten slots are in use, the only way to install
another custom waveform is to overwrite one of the ten allocated memory slots. Use the
following procedure to download acceptable wave shapes to the allocated welding machine
memory.
1. Select the Flash Custom Waveform option from the Tools menu to display the Flashing
PowerWave Custom Weld Files screen.
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This procedure re-programs the custom weld files in permanent memory (flash) storage
It allows welding with custom weld files without Wave Designer in production
This will erase existing custom weld files. It will take a few minutes to complete.
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