THE WORLD’S FINEST TIG PEDAL BUILD! - DIY BETTER THAN NOVA OR SSC !
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- In this video I will show you how I built a custom Tig Pedal that you can build in your own shop with just hand tools and a drill press. I built it out of 1/8" aluminum but you could easily do the same design out of 18 ga. steel and just have someone bend the sides for you or just weld the sides on at 90 degrees.
If you decide to build a pedal for your Yeswelder Tig, here is a link to my drawing for the plug pin outs on the pedal for the Yeswelder Tig. drive.google.com/file/d/1rXNV...
The parts I used in this build are as follows.
Capacitor for potentiometer www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
long shaft potentiometer 10k www.ebay.com/itm/10K-OHM-2-WA...
Micro switch with roller amzn.to/2XUfiuw
Geared Timing pulley GT2 30 tooth amzn.to/2XSuUie
Timing belt amzn.to/3qxeOXt
Cable protector gland nut amzn.to/38Wh2tx
1/4" extension spring amzn.to/3iqwMIl
Torsion spring for actuator bar amzn.to/36akYW3
18ga-5 wire cord amzn.to/3o5npzj
3/8" shoulder bolts 5 pack amzn.to/3sAe7yt
1/4" shoulder bolt amzn.to/3sGc0tg
1/4" I.D. bronze sleeve bearing amzn.to/2XSpO5B
3/8 roller bearing amzn.to/3sxdplL
1/4" roller bearing amzn.to/3nRpdeY
These are through amazon and if you purchase through them it gives me a commission and doesn't cost you any more than normally. It helps me fund these projects and keep building cool stuff. many of these you may be able to find locally for cheaper prices if you have a larger hardware store that carries this types of parts.
Thanks,
Don - Навчання та стиль
Amazing. I'm looking into buying my first pedal, learnt so much from this, thanks!
Thank you Damien! I’m glad you liked it! 👍😁
Nice work looks good!!! I have been running the nova peddle on mine. All the wire diagrams you sent worked awesome.
Hey, that’s awesome! Glad it helped!😁👍
Nice! One day I will make something similar. Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome! Thank you for your kind comments.🙏😊
That is the prettiest pedal ever made. Nobody will be able to match it. If there was a medal awarded for the nicest pedal, you would (and should) be on the podium to receive it. (But, I'll bet mine works as well as yours. :-) )
Thank you! And you are right, yours probably works just as good! 😁👍
Very well thought out.
Hi Jim! Thanks for your nice comment! 🙏😊
Great workmanship. Amazing.😉
Thank you😊🙏!
Glad you could find a wiring diagram. Guess I'll just go back to the manufacturer, but thanks for the run through. Nice bit of engineering and very well made.
Thanks Paul! Good luck with your search! 😊👍
I just bought a cheap one but I should have built! I like your switch/pedal solution on how to get the switch to close first.
Hi Chris! Thanks for your kind comments! I really appreciate it!😊🙏
Great stuff! We'll done!
Thank you Barry!🙏😊
Interesting video. Thank you for the information.
Thank you for the nice comment! I appreciate it! 🙏😀
Nice product, good welding job.
Thank you Rodney! 😊👍
Way to go Don 👍🏻
Hey, thanks man!🙏😊
Don, thank you for publishing this. I’m in need of my first tig pedal and not happy with the offerings I’ve come across and then taking into account the prices for some; I’m ready to make my own, the way I want it. Great idea, great video.
Hi Eric, thanks for your kind words! Glad you liked the project. Let me know if you need any info with yours as you get going.😊👍
@@PranaTech I’ve been looking around for specs on the potentiometer used in the RFCS-5HD pedal for my syncrowave 300 (transformer type), but have only come up with the Miller part #195218. This won’t deter me though, I’ll build it with the Miller potentiometer if necessary. If my potentiometer is something other than a 10k ohm unit, like yours, would this change mean there is a different preferred capacitor other than the one you listed in your description? I really appreciate your efforts in publishing this video, you’ve inspired me to take on a ‘diy’ tig torch cooler project after this.
Hi Eric, the capacitor will be the same with any value potentiometer. It is only there to stabilize the signal. Your potentiometer in the Miller pedal should be marked with the ohm value on the back of it. I actually purchased my potentiometer from SSC pedals. They use a really high quality unit that I couldn’t find out on the market. It also has a long shaft which is hard to find. I have one of their pedals and I told them I wanted to convert it to fit my other welder. They were very nice guys to deal with and they sold it to me for about $22 plus shipping. 😊👍
@@PranaTech Good deal, I don’t have a tig pedal of my own, so I can’t open one up to take a peek. Thank you for the advice on the capacitors and for the potentiometer I think I’ll give the guys at SSC Pedals a call. I’m looking forward to getting on this project and I’ll send you some pictures of the completed pedal when done. Thank you.
Awesome!👍
This is an amazing channel that is a bit underrated. I hope you gain more subscribers and viewers.
Thanks Blueeyes! I really appreciate your kind comments! I’m hoping the same! 😁👍
Купить такого качества готовую педаль не реально , я в восторге!!
Спасибо, мой друг, за добрые слова!🙏😊
Sweet now I just need to figure a way of doing lift start on an cheap inverter.
EXCELENTE¡¡ VIDEO¡¡..SALUDOS DESDE MEXICO.
Gracias Hector! 🙏😊
Thank you for sharing this
You are very welcome! Thank you for your nice comment! 🙏😊
Hi can I ask how do you pick the correct potentiometer to use for your machine@@PranaTech
Good morning! I just reverse engineered the factory pedal and used the same value potentiometer. If you don’t have a pedal you can copy, you can find the wiring diagrams for most popular machines on SSC’s site here. ssccontrols.com/tig-welding-controls/c-series-tig-pedals/ Click on the info sheet on the right and it will take you to the wiring diagram for the pedal. 😊👍
@@PranaTech thank you very much
Anytime! Just let me know if I can be of any more help.😊👍
well thought out , tidy job ... you should do a pdf pattern /cutting sheet.
Hi Tom, thank you for your kind comments! I would consider that, but not that many people are crazy enough to build their own tig pedal. 😊👍
What fine craftmanship. I have the 250P and will probably build a similar pedal control. Do you have drawings available?
Good morning! Thank you for your nice comment! I don’t have any plans for this pedal because I just built it freestyle as I went. If you would like a higher quality pedal and don’t have the time to build one yet, SSC is now offering theirs for the 250Pro. Here’s a link. ssccontrols.com/product/c960-0525-tig-welding-foot-control-yes-welders-tig-250p/ This pedal wasn’t available when I built my pedal. Enjoy! 😊👍
Excellent hand engraving, by the way! Do you engrave, also, as a side job?
Hi Flamingo! Thank you for your nice comments! Yes, I engrave as a side job for extra 💰👍😁
Why does everyone in the USA say sodder? It is sOLder!
Great video though. I have always thought commercial tig pedals are far too expensive!
Sorry about the sodder pronunciation 🤣 It’s just due to laziness! Thanks for the compliment! 😊👍
if you made the aluminum pieces into a cad program we could use laser cut services like sendcutgo to make the pedal like you did without a brake
Hi Adam, yes you are right! I’m not that computer literate though and bending the boxes saved me a bunch of welding on the sides. I like the way you think though, good idea! 😊👍
Super
Thank you!🙏😊
Hi Don, Great video and awesome result!!
I'm designing a pedal too and I have a question: if you've used the 10mm diameter wheel, that has 31mm circumference. The pot has a limitation of 3/4 travel so you'd have 23mm travel of the belt. Does it give you enough resolution? Wouldn't a bigger wheel like a 20mm be better? I'm new to all this, never used a TIG yet so please take it with a grain of salt..
Hey, glad to see someone else crazy enough to build their own pedal too! Ok, so the 30 tooth GT2 pulley that I used is 10mm wide not the diameter. The diameter is 18.6mm which works out to 58.4mm circumference. This gave me lots of resolution. My commercial pedal only had about 26-28mm of travel so my new pedal gave me about 43mm of travel and much finer control over my arc. Little variations in my foot movement don’t translate to the weld with this much resolution. Since I had so much travel to play with, I simply set the pulley on the pot shaft at the furthest downward travel point and then adjusted the return stop screw on the actuator bar to match the amount of travel for the pot. I hope that makes sense. Feel free to ask me all the questions you need.😊👍
nice build! do you have full travel of potentiometer? i looks on video like it only makes half of turn with full pedal travel.
Hi there! Yes, it has full travel. That was the hardest part, getting the diameter of the pulley and the pedal travel so that I got the full travel. Otherwise you don’t get the full amps of your welder.😁👍
This has to be the best pedal ever made!!
would you be able to share the dimensions for the aluminum plates?
Hello and thank you for your kind comment! The bottom box is 6.5” wide by 7.875” long. The top is 6.75” wide and 8.875” long. All of the aluminum is.125” thick. Thanks 😊👍
Great job on your pedal, looks amazing! The link for the capacitors you used has expired, but it appears you used this type - Ceramic Disk Capacitor 3000V (3KV) 4.7nf (472) 0.0047uF 4700pF. Is that correct?
Hi there! Yes, that is the correct capacitor. Thank you for letting me know about the expired link, I’ll get that fixed. Thanks for the kudos on the pedal! Normally when I build a project like this, I end up finding ways to improve it later by discovering design flaws that i didn’t think of. This one is a rarity because it has worked flawlessly since I built it and I love it just as it is. Let me know if you have any other questions. 😊👍Don
Hi, what kind of sizes are the aluminium enclosures?
The link for the long shaft 10k pot isn't bringing anything up for me.
Can you please tell me the make and model of the potentiometer.
Thanks.
Great video learned a lot.
Hi Deepwinter! Ok, here is a link to one on eBay www.ebay.com/itm/225055389404?hash=item346658b6dc:g:Q7IAAOSwa2VivzJr&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA8JXWcZLun2j5gquDvMxFHB4ZbgdZjlo%2Bz7hKlcLz1uGzLMNcPozMd0b%2B0VYMvZc8HYXtPrDH0UHtM7UQ6zvQ7kncTTLMkiIsueYrQ9g4vpWJuJKPuU35y%2Be%2BDJ4PShL2hjHTE%2FSdk9mxLYUZ6E9ISVhqOfKVjBanfN3UbwOYeK0Jt8yfTTmRwaapD8Yc4tIx08zKi1NlOCkCYrsYpWG55NQuwdTgWos5WD2G%2Fge%2B9Lxa5XaSUSjNhBl%2Fque9PThwvWxeekMMJFelXJiGTpwr8MvoQgdqHgC2qICj8PSgYrLoizKvJLIZJ8ccscroAuDb2A%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABFBMsv29xMdg
If you want the high quality one that I used you have to call SSC pedals and buy one of theirs. I needed one to convert an SSC pedal that was made for an everlast welder. Theirs is rated for a million actuations and with shipping, cost me about $32. If you tell them that , they should sell you one. Otherwise just buy any long shaft pot you can find on eBay or Amazon. Hope this helps.😊👍
@@PranaTech Thanks
Nice work. So the yeswelder acdc tig can use foot pedal for ahp? Does the 7 pin (C910-0725) fit in the yeswelder 5 pin plug? Thank you.
Hi Dong, yes you have to make an adapter with a 7 pin female GX20 plug to a 5 pin GX16 male plug to fit the Yeswelder Tig. I am going to make a video soon showing how to do it. I have a diagram showing the wiring schematic to do the conversion if you want to do it before I get the video done. Just let me know. 👍😁
@@PranaTech Will any 5 pin gx16 aviation connector fit the yeswelders connection?
Hi Dong. Yes, any GX16 5 pin male plug will work. 👍😀
The 10k pot you used is that the same value that is in the tig machine itself?
Hi there, yes, the pot that I used is the same value as the pedal that came with my Tig. Most modern Tigs use a pot that is somewhere between 10k to 55k from what I’ve seen. 👍😀
The link has expired for the potentiometer. What is the brand, shaft length and # of rotations on the one you used?
Hi Tyler! The actual pot that I used is from SSC pedals. It is an industrial grade potentiometer that is rated at 1 million actuations before wearing out. I just called them and asked them if they would sell me just the pot for AHP welders so I could swap out the one in a pedal of theirs that I had which was for an Everlast welder. The agreed and sold it to me for like $32 including shipping. I ended up selling the pedal and decided to build my own so I used the pot in the pedal project. The reality is that any long shaft 10k potentiometer would work, or you could try my way and call SSC or Nova and see if they will sell you one of theirs. The potentiometer is a 1 rotation unit. I think the length was 1.5” 👍😊
Thanks - Well done video!
I see the SSC company 5-pin pedal is about 200 dollars (Yipes!) and is probably very good, but yours is likely way smoother - and I love the limit switch. May I ask what you spent in materials? The welder I would use this for is Yeswelder 250P.
Hi there! Thank you for your nice comment! I spent about $65 to $70 in parts and about $3000 in labor.🤣👍 I love it though and it works so well. I like my Nova pedal too but my pedal is smoother with a larger range of motion so I can have a finer control over my amperage especially with small parts and thin aluminum. 😊
@@PranaTech Okay, it on my ToDO list for sure. And I sure do get the $3000 labor; I do side jobs in my retirement, and get so involved, it works out to about 25 cents an hour 200 dollars/6 Zillion hr). Ha.
Alas, I may have waited too long. Only now getting around to clicking through the parts, it will cost far more to build (more than Yeswelder's current foot pedal offering -- which by the way, some reviewers say does not work, I suspect because those folks did not follow the boot/wakeup instruction). I'm an occassional welder and I know yours is far superior, but should I consider the one from YW if I'm on a budget (well, okay, cheap). Do you recall whether the YW foot pedal operates pretty smoothly? Thanks again!!
The pedal is a great pedal that they are selling now. The early one was not very good, but the new one is very smooth and works perfectly. Many people fail because they don’t know that the pedal must be pressed for 5 seconds to tell the welder that a pedal is connected. If they don’t know this and don’t activate it, they then think the pedal is defective. If I was in your position, I would buy the YesWelder pedal.👍😊
@@PranaTech Just ordered it from Big A prime -- turned out to be on sale at 87 dollars today. I do like the fact it says "YESWELDER TIG Welding Foot Pedal Amp Control Pedal, Compatible with ACDC TIG-250P AC/DC and other machines with 5-pin torch controls" and comes from the "Yeswelder Store." Wish me luck and THANKS again!
Don,,,great video. How much for a pedal? Thank You..Don McPhee Phx, AZ
Hi Don! Thanks for your kind words! That’s probably the only pedal that I’ll ever build. I had 40-50 hours of work in that pedal and it was really more about me seeing if I could really build one. I would have to charge thousands of dollars for one and the commercially available ones are almost as good as mine, although not as smooth and fancy. Thanks for your interest though. 😊👍
Hi,
Nicely done! One thing bugs me though, why not use a linear potentiometer? It would simplify the build a lot...
Hi Rimon! Great question! My AHP welder came with a pedal that used a linear pot and I thought it was definitely a simpler design. I could not find a higher quality linear potentiometer that was comparable to the one I got. It is rated at 1 million cycles and since I built this for life, I wanted to use a higher quality pot so it would be smoother and not need to be replaced ever. Probably overkill I know.😁👍
@@PranaTech The ones used on studio mixers ar quite solid ;)
Hi Stefan! Thank you for the tip! I will definitely look into those for future projects. 😊👍
Question about the capacitors you added is that something that's on the original pedal or embedded in the original pot? I did everything and didn't notice those capacitors so mine's not working right now
Hi Terrence! Ok, so neither of my factory pedals that I tore down had the capacitors on the pot lines. I have a custom Nova pedal and they use the caps on theirs, so I just copied their setup. What welder are you making your pedal for?
Same as yours, yeswelder 250p. This is the pot I'm using, 404R10KL1.0
The goal was to get away from the rotating potentiometer and use a linear one. I saw this pot in a Hobart EZ-Take pedal
Hi Terrence, ok that pot looks like a good one. One problem that I realized was that I never put my drawing for the actual pinouts for the Yeswelder pedal. The schematic in the Yeswelder manual was wrong. I had to meter the actual outputs of my pedal to determine what they really were. Here is a link to my drawing for the actual pinouts for the GX16 plug on your pedal. drive.google.com/file/d/1rXNVQLZ3zguqyEsBy-R4KmhG5Mgdwnsq/view?usp=drivesdk
@@PranaTechRight on brother! Let me check with my setup and I'll get back to you. I have a design in mind too, look at the LEHLE volume pedal 💪😜
Cool Design! Let me know if you need any more help. 👍😀Don
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Murodil, Спасибо, мой друг!
On TIG welding: How do you sharpen your tungsten's? Thanks
Hi Michael, I sharpen mine on my belt sander. I hold the tungsten upright so the grind marks are linear to the tungsten from the thicker part to the point. 😁👍
@@PranaTech Do you need a "clean" belt? That is, do you have to worry about contamination from other things you have ground?
Well, that is probably a good idea to eliminate contamination, but I’ve never done it 👍
Do you have the correct model/part number for the 5 pin SSC or Nova replacement?
Hi Mark, here is a link to one on Amazon www.amazon.com/Hxchen-Female-Connector-GX16-5P-Aviation/dp/B07V9BQC7P/ref=sr_1_11?crid=1GDK2DNLXIYVI&dchild=1&keywords=gx16+5+pin&qid=1622072868&sprefix=Gx16+5+pin%2Caps%2C294&sr=8-11
They are just known as a GX16 and you just get the number of pins for your setup. 😁👍
could you use your potentiometer, and add bearings to an an existing foot pedal to improve the performance of the foot pedal. Frank
Hi Frank! Yes, that would certainly save some time in the process! 😁👍
@@PranaTech Thank you, I plan on looking into gathering the parts and making the modification.
It is a definite upgrade but I’ve found something even better. I started using a Tig Button from tigcontrol.com and it changed everything. I hardly use my pedal anymore.😊👍
@@PranaTechdid they go out of business? The link doesn't work
No, I misspelled the link. Sorry about that. Thank you for pointing that out. tigcontrol.com 😊👍
Could you make me a pedel for my machine please I’ll pay you I need one bad I can’t find one anywhere for my Tig welder mine is a 4 pin my machine is a Smart Tig 200P made by PowerFist from princess auto
Hi CJ. Well, I could make one for your welder, but the hours it took me to build this one was incredible! I would have to charge thousands of dollars for the pedal and you could just go buy a new welder for much less. 😊👍
Okay but if your welder doesn't have a pedal to begin with
That does make it more difficult but not impossible. Can you tell me what welder you have and I might be able to help. 😊👍
It's a stick welder with a add on DC converter so it can weld AC and DC and a arc pig HF start and a tig torch basically something I put together with some stuff I already had but it's a old 295 amp.
Great build however...
You should not make vids when you are stoned.
What in the world would make you think I was stoned? 🤣👍
Come on, this guy is putting out effort and publishing videos to help anyone interested, why do you feel the need to say something like that?
@@PranaTech Excuse me however, with all of the 'ummin and ahhha'n you were doin you sound exactly like a stoned high school kid.
Its like "10 seconds Mr Roach clip"...
That or, you dont know the material and you clearly do so??
Why else would you speak like that?
Hi Dee Dee! Ahh, now I get it! I’ve been working on that for a while now. It annoys my wife as well. I am getting better, I’m just not used to speaking in front of a camera. 👍😊
@@PranaTech Wonderful :)
Now, sell me a tig pedal for my old 300/300 Lincoln?
Saying ”uhhh” every 5 seconds makes this unwatchable 🤦
Hi Domush! Sorry about that, it’s a habit that I’m trying hard to break. 😊👍