50
Lead/trail phase
shift
Adjustment range: auto, 0 - 95%
Factory setting: auto
Lead/trail phase shift enables the time of droplet detachment to be freely selected for the
trail arc. As the trail droplet detachment does not have to take place in the quiescent cur-
rent phase of the lead arc, a magnetic arc blow between the two arcs can be counteracted.
In automatic ("auto") mode, the characteristics contain the optimum location of the two
main current phases in relation to one another and this can change along the characteris-
tic.
When set manually, the phase shift can be set between the two pulses as a percentage of
the period duration. The adjustment range of 0 - 95% corresponds to a phase shift of 0 -
342°.
0% Synchronous mode - no phase shift between the two process lines, lead and trail
droplet detachments take place at the same time
50% Asynchronous mode - 180° phase shift, each droplet detachment takes place in the
quiescent current phase of the other arc.
Information on the power source display