In essence, the fundamental purpose of the use of pulsed current welding is to increase the relationship power of the process / wire speed, since it is very low in the short circuit transfer. Therefore, welds result in poor quality, especially on aluminum and its alloys and stainless steels. With the pulsed current, avoiding the short circuiting, the relation power / wire speed increases because the voltage never reaches values lower than 15 V. Then, the logic of control is just to avoid short circuits, hence yielding system configuration with more than one drop per period illogical. What is vital for the pulse technique is the physical arrangement of the wave variables. So, this article examines several sets of pulse current and pulse time, constituting different detachment parameters, and also different droplet diameters. The relationship between those variables is examined, considering the exponent of the current pulse equal to 2.3, according to researcher Amin, and the exponent 2.0, according to most adoptions in the literature. However, the value of 1.83 was found as the best fit for the wire ER4043. It was also shown that the best condition of detachment is when it occurs immediately after the pulse phase. Furthermore, it was shown that the stability coefficient (φ) proposed by Gosh does not meet the proposed objectives.
detachment parameter; detachment of droplets; aluminum welding
