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Thank you for choosing our product! Before installing and using the product, please read carefully the following
recommendations of safety in order to avoid accidents to the user and damages of the welding process.
GYS can’t be responsible for the damages occurred to persons or things, which derive from the use of the machine in
following circumstances:
- Modification or neutralization of safety elements,
- Non-respect of the recommendations written in the manual instruction,
- Modification of the characteristics on the product
- Use of the accessories, which are different from the ones delivered by GYS,
- Non-respect of the regulating and particular dispositions where the machine is settled.
I/ SAFETY STANDARDS AND GENERAL PRECAUTIONS
GENERALITIES
1- Before disassembling the product’s body, plug out the lead cable.
2- The operators must have the appropriate qualification.
3- The operations of servicing can only be controlled by qualified technicians.
4- The operator is responsible for respect of the car manufacturers’ recommendations, concerning the protection of
electrical and electronic procedures (car computer, car radio, alarm, air bag, etc…)
5- It is necessary to make a regular preventive maintenance.
ELECTRICITY
1- Check that the unity must be connected to the earth coupler and that the connection to the earth is in good
condition.
2- Check that the workbench is connected to the earth coupler.
3- Make sure that the operator has no contact with the metal parts to the welded without any protection or wet
clothes.
4- Avoid being in contact with welding part.
5- Before controlling or repairing, please disconnect the unit directly to the level of the plug.
PROTECTION OF EYES AND BODY
1-During the welding process, the operator must be protected from the eventual flashes of the electrical arc with
protection clothes like leather gloves, welding aprons, safety shoes, welding helmets or glasses for filtering radiations
and projections. As well during operations of rubbing and hammering, the operator must protect his eyes.
2-All the protection board must be in good condition and maintained in place.
Never look at an arc of welding without any protection of your eyes.
Protect the environment near the product against projections and reflections.
SMOKES AND GAZ
Welding operations can cause the emission of toxic smokes and harmful metallic dusts. Use the device in a sheltered
place equipped with smoke aspirators.
The operator must wear an anti smoke mask.
The welding material must be degreased and cleaned in order to limit the toxic gas during the welding process.
FIRE
1-Check that the sparks don’t cause fire especially near inflammable material.
2-Check that fire extinguishers are not too far from the operator.
3-Leave the product in a place with air movers.
4-Don’t weld neither on container of combustibles and lubricants, even empty, nor on containers with inflammable
material.
5-Don’t weld in an atmosphere full with inflammable gas or fuel steam.
ELECTRO-MAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY
Near the spot-welding, check:
- There is neither no other power supply cable nor control lines, nor phone cables, nor radio or TV reception appliances,
nor watches, nor mobile phones, nor magnetic cards, nor computers or any other electronic appliance.
- There are in the surroundings (minimum 3 meters of each point of the product) no persons using active medical
appliances (pacemakers, acoustic prosthetics).
Make supplementary protections if other products are used in the same environment.
II / NORM CE
This product has been designed with respect of the European standards.
- Directive Low Voltage 73/23 CEE of 19th February 1973 (decree n°98- 1081 of 3rd October 1995)
- Directive electromagnetic compatibility 89/336 CEE of 3rd May 1989
