Its funny how silly simple things can be over looked stuff people up real bad including myself. When some one new to the game of has a new machine they are not familiar with and has a issue getting it to work. People tend to over look some of the big key points and start from the wrong end of the sc...

Sounds like there is 3 variations of foot pedals depending on machine model and manufacturer . Style 1) Foot pedal is 0-100% of the Max amps set on the machine. (most likely the best option) Style 2) Foot pedal is 0-100% of the Max amps but max amps is adjustable with dial on side of foot pedal (les...

What will it be connected to in service?

Read his post again he went into detail about it being used for a racing 2 stroke Go Kart.

Kurt

Ok back to the review of the Fondof welder. After welding DC tig for the past 15 years I was keen to see what all this AC business was about. Now I have a machine that will do it I guess its time to give AC a shot. I Picked up some 4043 filler rod Friday afternoon. Dug up a dirty old sheet of alumin...

For $2000 in the UK Actual about $4000 AU or US is a lot of $ just to clean welds. You could buy a lot of scotch pads and pickling past and pay a very enthusiastic 15yo kid for a long time with that kind of money :lol: Honestly cleaning up welds is one of my pet hates. I could see the value on big j...

Putting together a battery between between 20 - 50 volts that can handle up to 80 - 100A output isn't to hard. Would have to think about ways to control the amperage it gives off though but wouldn't be to hard. I do have my old Esseti 160A inverter Tig /MMA unit that I could play with as a power sup...

The machine I have has a knob-dial- pot (what ever you want to call it) on the side of the foot pedal 0 - 200A and you set that to where you want the Max amps to be when you step on the pedal 100% . It doesn't matter where you set the max amps on the machine as soon as the pedal is plunged in its ov...

I think I'd set my machine to 25, and not be much over half-pedal after the start. Sorry if this is side tracking a little... Having not used a foot pedal in the past (just got myself one a week recently) I was under the impression once the foot pedal is plunged in the machine.The machines Amp sett...

The pickling past sure dose work well (don't breath the fumes in and watch the eyes its nasty stuff) I also got a shock when I purchased my 1st bottle as its not cheap but it lasts for a long time.I moved state a few years ago and the moving company refused to ship it so I gave my bottle to a friend...

The initial reason for being off grid is the location of the Property while its not all that remote only 10km from average sized country town and only 100km from The capital city. It's location in the hinterland and local terrain on the side of a mountain. Places it several KM from the nearest grid ...

While welding and plasma cutters consume large amounts of energy over a short time the actual total over the day is quite small. I weld a lot of 1.6mm wall ss rhs on my furniture and weld in the range of 40 - 60A at this rate my welder consumes between 700w - 1000w. I could weld for 1hr constantly w...

Thanks noddybrian, I would have to agree with you regarding the digital control panel. The dials do have the advantage of a quick view and you know were your at and perhaps a little more robust (easier to fix if there is a issue). The better(more expensive) digital control panel machines are able to...

Fondof Advan 200A AC/DC TIG Chinese machine (re-badged as "Renegade" for local Australian importer) Just made a quick video to gloss over the machine. I will do another one with some welding samples once I can get a camera set up better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Rf_ubKWN8&featu...

Yes its more or less or Ford - Holden comparison between Tokentools & Everlast in Australia. No they are not identical but Very similar products , price and service from what I can tell is about the same. I had a mate trying to pick between the two And In the end I just suggested to just give th...

I'm sure the wife would see the value in that

honey I just spent 55k on a thing that can weld two pipes together the lazy way. I have set it up in the living room come take a look

Kurt

Thanks noddybrian, Yes the way the MMA cable connects using the adapter is a little odd.I guess MMA was an after thought and they ran out of real estate to mount a separate post :roll: You can see in the pic there is two Dinse style sockets on the left but that's just used to swap the earth cable fr...

I decided it was about time to upgrade my old faithful - 12 year old Esseti scratch start DC tig. To something new with all the bells and whistles. :D I ended up with a 200A AC/DC unit from a local importer (yes its Chinese) Full Digital control board and more or less all the setting tweaks I could ...