Arcon Training Center

ARCON Welding Equipment, LLC was founded in December, 2014 by Gunnar Ennerfelt and Goran Hedberg. Their goal was to build a welder that is unique in design and construction, with the primary aim of building the most rugged welder possible for tough industries such as Gas and Oil, Engineering Construction, Shipbuilding, Mining, Power and Chemical Pl... ants. Goran was the co-inventor of the inverter-based welding power supply in the late 70's and designed the welder that became known in the United States as POWCON. He designed the Workhorse series of welders for ARCON Welding Equipment. Gunnar brings his manufacturing experience, being the founder and owner of Toroid Corporation of Maryland. Today, ARCON is a family owned and operated manufacturer of portable welding machines, located in Salisbury, Maryland. Since our first shipment in 2000, ARCON's name has become synonymous with toughness and reliability. ARCON uses a Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR) to act as a High Speed Switch that in combination with the input rectifier and appropriate control circuitry, step up the frequency of the incoming primary power, nominally 50 or 60 Hertz, to a range from 4000 to 8000 Hertz - an arrangement commonly called an "Inverter Welding Power Supply". The SCR is a very rugged switching device, a monolithic wafer of silicon, doped on one side to allow flow of current when a gate voltage is applied, thus acting as a switch. Most (all, to our knowledge) competitive machines use either an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor, (IGBT) or a Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) to "switch" or invert the power.Read More