Care to share the model number of the "good" TIG welder?? Tom On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Jan Steinman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> > From: Alan Brinkman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > > To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <ev@lists.evdl.org> > > > > I purchased a Harbor Freight flux core wire welder several years back... > I now have a larger welder mig/tig? with plasma cutting ability that I have > not set up yet because the Harbor Freight starter welder won't die. > > HF has both crap and some quite nice stuff. You have to know what you’re > shopping for. > > Their welding stuff seems to be good, much of it from Italy, rather than > China. > > I have their inverter TIG welder that is amazing; my only gripe was lack > of a foot pedal, so I wired in one! Unlike so many things these days, they > actually supplied a schematic, and I could plainly see that the “volume > control” was a common 5k pot, which is just what the Lincoln-style foot > pedals use. > > With TIG, you want to start very hot, then back off to your normal welding > current. I can’t for the life of me figure out how they expected you to do > that with a panel-mounted pot while both your hands were busy… > > Jan > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160427/3b9b8b30/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
