Welding Equipment

Used Lincoln Electric Power Wave S500: Sell or Buy at Auction

Lincoln Electric is the world's largest welding manufacturer, with a comprehensive range of welding machines, wire feeders, and robotic welding systems. Lincoln Electric is the dominant brand in North American welding, making Lincoln equipment highly liquid in the used market with active buyer demand.

The Lincoln Electric Power Wave S500 is a 500 amp class multi-process digital inverter welding power source built on Lincoln's Waveform Control Technology. It runs off three-phase industrial input and pairs with a Power Feed wire feeder over Lincoln's ArcLink digital communication network, which lets it hold tuned, repeatable arc programs across GMAW, pulsed GMAW, flux-cored, stick, and TIG welding. Its higher output and ArcLink control are what put the S500 in heavy structural fabrication and, in particular, in robotic and automated welding cells, work that its lower-amperage sibling, the 350 amp Power Wave S350, is often not sized for. Heavy steel fabricators, shipyards, automotive and off-highway plants running robotic cells, and pipe and pressure-vessel shops drive most of the demand for this unit. Because Lincoln has such a large installed base of Power Wave systems, consumables, replacement boards, and technicians who know the platform are easy to source, which keeps used units liquid on the secondary market. KD Auctions markets multi-process power sources like this to a network of 500,000+ industry contacts, and complete packages, with the power source, feeder, cables, and control box intact and in working order, tend to draw the most active bidding at auction.

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