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

Claim 14:
15. 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 wire feeder;
a low power receiver configured to receive the one or more unmodulated tones through the weld cable from the wire feeder; 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; and
apply a digital filter function to the received one or more unmodulated tones, and wherein the digital filter function is configured to determine the one or more channel equalization filter coefficients related to the weld cable.