Abstract: A device for sensing an alternating current includes a circuit board on whose surface is arranged a planar conductor path in which a current to be measured flows. Applied on the opposite surface of the conductor path is a planar coil in which the change in the current to be measured induces a voltage. The device is advantageously used in a converter having a direct-current voltage link circuit.

Abstract: A converter welding arrangement with a welding control for the operation on mains with different voltages, having a welding transformer which is designed for operation on a mains with the lowest voltage of different possible voltages and to which the alternating voltage which is generated by AC conversion from the rectified mains voltage is supplied directly. A saturation monitoring arrangement monitors the current in the transformer and breaks off or interrupts the current supply to the welding transformer (18) when the current (I.sub.P) flowing across the welding transformer (18) exceeds a threshold value (I.sub.