Thread: Which Arc Welder

Many of the better brand invertor welders have very long duty cycles. I recently won a 140 amp boc invertor and the duty cycle is huge. I cant remember what without going to the sheds, but it is 100% at something like 100 amps and 50% for the rest. Bit annoying I won it as I was going to buy one and if I had I would have bought the 180 amp one that has an even better duty cycle. One other thing worth mentioning is I have a few large transformer welders too, first is they dont weld as nice or as cleanly as a dc invertor welder, second they are too darn heavy, if I cant take the job to them I dont want to do the job! Since I got the invertor it has been great, I was cutting the branches off a tree at one of my rentals. One of the branches landed on the rotary washing line and snapped one limb off it opps.
Before I would have had to come home and get one of my transformer welders up onto my ute with difficulty, then off it again at the other end, major pain in the butt. Now I just picked up the invertor welder which weights next to nothing and put it on the back seat of the car.
So much more convenient.
Chris

BOC were, (are still?), having some really good xmas deals. I picked up a Smootharc II 250A for the workshop just on about the 22nd Dec for $998 Incl GST.

Cheers,

Tim