I think I found the issue, there is a hole in the gas line from the gas connection to the dinse connector. It looks like it's made of inferior rubber that just rotted away. I ordered a whole new torch with gas line/dinse connector from a different source, hopefully this one will last. It took me a w...

I have been using an Alpha-TIG 200X for about two years without issue now but the other day it started acting up. Without changing any settings (torch negative, argon at 25 SCFH, 100 amps, 50 amp start/stop, 5 sec post flow, no pulse, DC) it began acting up badly. I was happily welding mild steel wh...