Side Note: Be sure to check your owners manual for the optimal settings before you start welding. Different size wires will need to run and different speeds to avoid popping.įor example, a 0.23 welding wire may run great at 300 inches per minute (IPM) while a 0.35 wire may run great at 150 IPM. The size of your wire also factors into whether or not your welder will pop. Go to slow though and your welder will pop, to fast and your welder will pop. More importantly, the slower you go deep you will penetrate into the metal. Whereas if you are welding a thicker piece of metal you’re going to run at a slower IPM. If your welding an 1/8” piece of sheet metal you‘re going to run at a higher IPM (Inches Per Minute). #1 Material Thicknessįirst off, the thickness of your material matters. When it comes down to it wire speed is probably the main factor as to why your welder is popping but there can be multiple causes that are making your welder pop. Hold the trigger and if the welder makes a loud popping noise and tries to push the gun back it means the wire speed is not set right and needs to be adjusted. To test this simply hold your welder up to a piece of metal you are trying to weld. The main reason your MIG welder will pop is that your wire speed is either to slow or to fast. In this article, I will show you how you can fine-tune your welder to avoid this. Often times you’ll have to adjust the wire speed until finding the optimal setting that will give a consistent buzzing sound that you are looking for.Įven though wire speed is the main culprit for the reason why your MIG welder could be popping and producing an inconsistent weld there are actually several major factors that will help you avoid this altogether.

Why is my MIG welder popping? MIG welders often create a popping noise if the wire speed is either to fast or to slow and not set correctly. One of the very first times I turned my MIG welder on and tried making my first weld I noticed it was making the odd popping sound with my weld and I wondered what I could do to fix this issue.

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