Patent ID: 8642923

Claim:
A method of sampling data from a weld control system that controls voltage and current output by a welder during welding, the method comprising: sampling the voltage output by the welder with feedback circuitry at predetermined time intervals during the welding to create voltage weld data; providing the voltage weld data from the feedback circuitry to a weld controller; sampling the current output by the welder with the feedback circuitry at predetermined time intervals during welding to create current weld data; providing the current weld data from the feedback circuitry to the weld controller; capturing raw weld images during the welding with a peripheral data source; providing the raw weld images from the peripheral data source to the weld controller; synchronizing the raw weld images from the peripheral data source with the voltage weld data from the feedback circuitry and the current weld data from the feedback circuitry with the weld controller prior to filtering of the raw weld images and the voltage and current weld data with the weld controller.