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<blockquote data-quote="Fishfiles" data-source="post: 49878" data-attributes="member: 782"><p>the most important thing to me when shopping a welding machine is duty cycle , if you get a small machine then the duty cycle will be something like 25-35% , meaning you can only weld for 2.5 -3.5 minutes out of 10 minutes , the rest of the ten minutes you need to let the unit cool down or you will burn it up , the thicker the metal is , the more you need to turn up the heat and the duty cycle goes down as the heat goes up so if you are welding something thats say 12 gauge it may be 100% duty cycle , when you go to 1/4 inch thick steel it could drop dramatically and you wouldn't save any time over stick welding as you would be waiting for it to cool down more than welding</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fishfiles, post: 49878, member: 782"] the most important thing to me when shopping a welding machine is duty cycle , if you get a small machine then the duty cycle will be something like 25-35% , meaning you can only weld for 2.5 -3.5 minutes out of 10 minutes , the rest of the ten minutes you need to let the unit cool down or you will burn it up , the thicker the metal is , the more you need to turn up the heat and the duty cycle goes down as the heat goes up so if you are welding something thats say 12 gauge it may be 100% duty cycle , when you go to 1/4 inch thick steel it could drop dramatically and you wouldn't save any time over stick welding as you would be waiting for it to cool down more than welding [/QUOTE]
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