Inverter welder

Submitted: Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 16:26

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beatit

G'day all,

A few post ago the matter of inverter welders was brought up and although a little dated thought I would share what I found, ended up buying an Eutectic Ultramax for $850 as a result of thread 19274.

Great little unit I must say, it is rated to 110 amps and weighs just 3.7 Kg. spent the weekend giving it a thorough workout. The best thing was that I was able to run it off my 2Kva Honda for short bursts (the welders spec calls for 2.2Kva and the genie will produce 2.7Kva for short periods). My travelling mate has a Honda as well so we'll hook them together in parallel to give the power it needs if we have to do any emergency welding.

Thanks to Pesty for raising the question up until then didn't even know they existed

Kind regards

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Reply By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 21:26

Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 21:26

G'day Beatit,
I'm a mate of Pesty's (he pays me lots of money to say that on here...lolol) and I've been looking at Inverter welders too. I rang coffs harbour power tools (www.chpt.com.au) today about a Gysmi 164 which they were advertising @ $1,095-. This was $200- dearer than another site was offering them for, but the other site didn't give any details about who/where they were located (alarm bells in my scone starting ringing).
Anyway, the bloke at chpt said they don't carry the Gysmi any more but ended up selling me a Italian jobbie (sight unseen by me, so I hope I haven't made an expensive mistake!!!). It's a 130w Inverter (can't even remember the name; something starting with "E", but not Eutectic). Anyway, it was only $549- + $20- postage, so I thought for the relatively small amount of use I will get out of it and the relatively cheap price; why not have a go? If it's no good I'll sell it on ebay.
Will report on it once it arrives etc.

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Follow Up By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:48

Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:48

Now that I'm back at work, I can tell you that it's a "ESSETTI" Inverter welder that I'm awaiting delivery of.

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Reply By: GO_OFFROAD - Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 21:35

Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 21:35

we now are Aus agent for these

http://www.mobi-arc.com/index2.htm

which retail for around the same $

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Follow Up By: Member - 'Lucy' - Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 22:32

Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 22:32

How about posting your Business/agency details.

Or if you are not allowed to on the forum, please send them to

krobbo@optusnet.com.au.

I have just spent/wasted a zillion hours researching these 'mothers' on the yank site and trying to figure out what sort of alternator I need for my Troopy so that I can utilize a mobi-arc.

Regards

Ken Robinson

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Follow Up By: MrBitchi - Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 16:24

Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 16:24

Web site broken??

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Reply By: GO_OFFROAD - Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 23:04

Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 23:04

We will be doing the alternators change over, to save any fitting issues.

We are currently

ATS 4WD Centre
Blue ridge Adventure Gear
White Peak 4x4 accessories
Affordable Tyres and Servicing

Cnr Fyans St and Yarra St South Geelong Vic 3220
03 5221 6599

Darren M

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Follow Up By: Member - 'Lucy' - Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 23:07

Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 23:07

Thank you Darren

Catch you tomorrow.

Ken Robinson

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Follow Up By: GO_OFFROAD - Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 23:31

Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 23:31

Your welcome,
our first shipment is on the way, along with a killer battery isolator, like no one has seen before ;-)

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Follow Up By: Mad Dog (Victoria) - Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 23:38

Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 23:38

Whats the go with the killer isolator?

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Follow Up By: GO_OFFROAD - Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 23:53

Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 23:53

G'Day Ray,
from the company details to date

"20-30 time more efficient than anything we've seen. It's solid-state, has no moving parts, has essentially no voltage drop (ex. .035v@100a), and is ridiculously small measuring 2.5" x .75" x 3.5 including connection blades. They're also stackable and can switch un-godly amounts of current. It's break-through technology; patent docs and PCB's are in process. This was the prototype http://www.mobi-arc.com/comp.jpg We've left the world of milli-ohms and entered the world of micro-ohms."

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Follow Up By: Mad Dog (Victoria) - Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:50

Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:50

Thanks Darren, nice and compact, easy to mount.

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Reply By: GaryInOz (Vic) - Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 15:45

Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 15:45

Beatit wrote:

"...My travelling mate has a Honda as well so we'll hook them together in parallel to give the power it needs if we have to do any emergency welding...."

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ABSOLUTELY NO!!!!!!!

Gennies (ac variety) are NOT LIKE BATTERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You cannot just parallel them up as the AC voltage also need to be in phase, otherwise you will blow both gennies up by overloading them. You are dealing with lethal 240V, don't play games with it. If you want to run your welder for lengthy periods, then buy a 3.0-3.5 kW gennie and do it properly and safely.

Do not under any circumstances attempt what you are suggesting.

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Follow Up By: beatit - Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 15:53

Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 15:53

G'day Gary,

These Hondas come equiped with parallel cables and have a dedicated socket that permits their connection. I understand that these cables and these sockets cause the 2 inverter genies to work in sync. Honda even sell the cables and advertise that you will have 4 KVA to use.

I'm not talking some home made jerry rig to make this happen.

Kind regards

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Follow Up By: GaryInOz (Vic) - Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 16:08

Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 16:08

No probs then....They obviously synchronize the inverters

(I'll crawl back into my little hole then)

Had visions of what can happen when a collegue of my father tried a similar thing with two normal 240V outlets, unfortunately they were on different phases. Ever seen a welding transformer explode??? Took out half the street too....

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