Patent ID: 11911858
Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A welding system, comprising:
a welding device comprising a low power transceiver configured to be coupled to a weld cable, wherein the low power transceiver comprises:
a low power transmitter configured to transmit one or more unmodulated tones through the weld cable to a welding power supply;
a low power receiver configured to receive the one or more unmodulated tones through the weld cable from the welding power supply; and
a first processor configured to determine one or more channel equalization filter coefficients related to the weld cable corresponding to a distortive characteristic of the weld cable,
wherein a second processor is configured to transmit and receive data related to a welding operating parameter through the weld cable and to determine the one or more channel equalization filter coefficients related to the weld cable corresponding to the distortive characteristic.