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<blockquote data-quote="MudHog" data-source="post: 1382012" data-attributes="member: 21686"><p>It will be a good little machine. Little meaning don't expect to weld much thick material. The biggest thing on a small machine like that is to follow the duty cycle or risk damaging the internals. Duty cycle is measured in 10 minutes and the Hobart 145 has a 30% Duty Cycle. This means that if you weld continuous for 3 minutes, you have to let is rest for 7 minutes before doing another 3 minute cycle. 3 minutes might sound like you'd never weld that, but you have to figure welding multiple times within a 3 minutes window. Say building a fence and you have the middle bars fitted up and will start welding them. If you weld one bar in a minute and jump immediately to the next one, you can only do 2 more per the duty cycle recommendation. The risk is burning up electrical components due to them overheating. Only machines that have a 100% duty cycle are made to weld continuously without stopping for hours.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MudHog, post: 1382012, member: 21686"] It will be a good little machine. Little meaning don't expect to weld much thick material. The biggest thing on a small machine like that is to follow the duty cycle or risk damaging the internals. Duty cycle is measured in 10 minutes and the Hobart 145 has a 30% Duty Cycle. This means that if you weld continuous for 3 minutes, you have to let is rest for 7 minutes before doing another 3 minute cycle. 3 minutes might sound like you'd never weld that, but you have to figure welding multiple times within a 3 minutes window. Say building a fence and you have the middle bars fitted up and will start welding them. If you weld one bar in a minute and jump immediately to the next one, you can only do 2 more per the duty cycle recommendation. The risk is burning up electrical components due to them overheating. Only machines that have a 100% duty cycle are made to weld continuously without stopping for hours. [/QUOTE]
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