Any ESAB TIG users?

WildWestWelder · Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:21 pm

I have my eye on a Miller Dynasty 280 but I got looking at the ESAB 281i AC/DC machine. Was looking at the ESAB 0558101708 which is the complete package but I can't find what is exactly included with it. One of the drawbacks is that it is not available in a 240V 3Ph unit only 460 in 3ph..

Anybody have any experience with these machines and how to they compare to the Dynasty 280?

Thanks

exnailpounder · Thu Apr 06, 2017 5:45 pm

WildWestWelder wrote:I have my eye on a Miller Dynasty 280 but I got looking at the ESAB 281i AC/DC machine. Was looking at the ESAB 0558101708 which is the complete package but I can't find what is exactly included with it. One of the drawbacks is that it is not available in a 240V 3Ph unit only 460 in 3ph..

Anybody have any experience with these machines and how to they compare to the Dynasty 280?

Thanks

I bet anyone here would give a left nut for a Dynasty 280. I used to use an ESAB machine 20 years ago when I was a production welder and it worked great but nothing beats BLUE. My opinion...

Farmwelding · Thu Apr 06, 2017 5:57 pm

Yeah... Dynasty's are pretty great. 210, 280, 350. Used them all-loved them all. Miller tigs are my favorite. If you get a 280 though-you better get a tig runner to get water cooled. I run 180 amps with an air cooled torch and after twenty minutes it is unbearable.

WildWestWelder · Thu Apr 06, 2017 6:05 pm

Farmwelding wrote:Yeah... Dynasty's are pretty great. 210, 280, 350. Used them all-loved them all. Miller tigs are my favorite. If you get a 280 though-you better get a tig runner to get water cooled. I run 180 amps with an air cooled torch and after twenty minutes it is unbearable.

If I do get the 280 (most likely will) I will get the complete package including the wireless foot control (just because)

exnailpounder · Thu Apr 06, 2017 6:20 pm

WildWestWelder wrote:
Farmwelding wrote:Yeah... Dynasty's are pretty great. 210, 280, 350. Used them all-loved them all. Miller tigs are my favorite. If you get a 280 though-you better get a tig runner to get water cooled. I run 180 amps with an air cooled torch and after twenty minutes it is unbearable.
If I do get the 280 (most likely will) I will get the complete package including the wireless foot control (just because)

If you can...you absolutely should. I have a Blue welder and I love it. Buy American...Be American.

WildWestWelder · Thu Apr 06, 2017 7:07 pm

Aren't ESAB's made in the USA?

Farmwelding · Thu Apr 06, 2017 7:34 pm

WildWestWelder wrote:Aren't ESAB's made in the USA?

According to balers gas and welding supplies, no-European made. But hey are the second best manufacturers unless you are from there- then it's reversed I guess. Patrootism is son nationalized these days

DennisCA · Fri Apr 07, 2017 2:37 am

ESAB's swedish, the name is originally an abbreviation of "Elektriska svetsningsaktiebolaget" (Electric welding company AB).

Though nowadays when everything is bought and sold and nothing is tied to the place it came from anymore, who knows, some board of directors somewhere probably buy and then sell it the next month and so it goes on...

Olivero · Fri Apr 07, 2017 4:40 pm

I might not be American but this Dane prefers the Blue machines.