Re: Inverter welders are....
[Re: Stanton]
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06/29/22 06:10 PM
06/29/22 06:10 PM
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pittsburghracer
"Little"John
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"Little"John
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Wow I have a Lincoln and took classes at night school and the teacher said the kids beat the piss out of that machine. I know I ran it through the ropes for 12 weeks.
1970 Duster Edelbrock headed 408 5.984@112.52 422 Indy headed small block 5.982@112.56 mph 9.42@138.27
Livin and lovin life one day at a time
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Re: Inverter welders are....
[Re: RTSE4ME]
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06/30/22 11:17 AM
06/30/22 11:17 AM
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Posts: 2,936 Richmond, VA
VT_Dart
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master
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I've used both, and certainly prefer using the inverter when possible. I have an ESAB, and use both a Dynasty (inverter) and Syncrowave (transformer) at work. Honestly, I've sent both out for repair about the same amount of times. At home I'd have a hard time justifying the size and power required for an inverter machine.
Darrah Heath
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Re: Inverter welders are....
[Re: cudaman1969]
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07/02/22 11:57 AM
07/02/22 11:57 AM
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Posts: 711 Southern Alberta
Uberpube
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super stock
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Southern Alberta
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For those welding at home with limited electrical services, the inverters are a god send. I tripped my main breaker a few times running my old syncrowave full pedal welding 1/4-5/16 AL, I've never tripped a breaker welding heavy stuff with the my Dynasty maxed right out or my 350P welding 1/2" plate. And just when you think you don't need portability, then you do, I've taken the dynasty up on roofs with a rope to patch condensers, need a crane to get a syncrowave up there. One thing I don't like about inverters, is each machine seems to have certain rods it doesn't like. The Dynasty doesn't like 6010 which I used to use a lot, some 6013's run like turd, and I found that for 7018, I have to run esab rods to get a smooth bead with no inclusion, other rods just don't seem to flow out and tie in at the edges on the inverter even with much fiddling.
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Re: Inverter welders are....
[Re: Uberpube]
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07/03/22 10:58 AM
07/03/22 10:58 AM
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Posts: 19,464 north of coder
moparx
"Butt Crack Bob"
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"Butt Crack Bob"
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north of coder
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i have an old [1972] airco 200 amp dipstick welder i got back in 1996. it does mig, stick and scratch start tig, plus is able to do dc welding, including dc reverse. however, i never tried to do any tig work, even though i have a brand new tig torch and full bottle of argon. even being an archaic welder, it works great. hopefully someday i can try the tig side just to say i did. i forgot to say though, that thing is HUGE ! it even has a dedicated lift hook on the top as part of the framework.
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