LightWELD Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Yes, LightWELD travel speed is up to 4X faster than traditional methods, fixturing is simpler or not necessary, and post-weld grinding or sanding is not needed or significantly reduced—all of which increases productivity while minimizing rework.
All LightWELD products sold in the United States are manufactured in the United States.
All LightWELD products sold in Europe and the UK are manufactured in Germany.
Yes, compared with MIG and TIG welding, either of which can take a lifetime to master, LightWELD is quick to learn, allowing new users to make high-quality welds in just a few hours.
LightWELD comes preloaded with over 100 optimized welding and cleaning parameters for the most common materials and thicknesses. You can create your own custom recipes to match your travel speed and desired penetration, and you can save them in 25 available user preset slots to recall as needed.
Yes, you can easily weld dissimilar metals like copper to stainless steel or to aluminum, plus parts with different thicknesses across all weld joint types: tee, butt, corner, lap and edge.
For stainless steel, galvanized steel, mild steel and aluminum, you can weld single-sided up to 1/4" and double-sided up to 1/2" – copper single-sided up to 0.080" and double-sided up to 0.160".
LightWELD excels at out of position welding since there are normally no consumables and minimal spatter produced, making it safe and easy to weld in any position.
LightWELD offers seven modes of operation to match your needs:
- Wire Welding - standard MIG wire is fed into the laser weld to increase the size of the weld bead or overcome poor part fit-up
- Fusion Welding - the laser produces a constant stream of light for maximum penetration and travel speed
- Pulsed Welding – the laser produces pulses of light to lower travel speed and heat input, creating a "stacked dimes" appearance
- Tack Weld – the laser delivers a controlled amount of energy to produce identical tack welds
- Stitch Welding – used for creating multiple tack or overlap welds
- High Peak Power Mode – short bursts of high power are used to weld reflective metals
You can run LightWELD at 100% duty cycle at the maximum 1500 watts of laser power.
Wobble welding oscillates the beam back-and-forth at various frequencies to produces wider seams and more aesthetic welds. It is also helpful for parts with poor fit-up. LightWELD comes with optimized, preprogrammed wobble parameters and allows on-the-fly control of up to 5 mm of wobble welding at adjustable frequencies up to 300 Hz.
All key product information is available in our LightWELD Guide.
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