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Originally Posted by ironpig70

not used that one. i have a century 155amp and its 20% duty cycle and i love it. only down side is heavy steel 1/4" is about the max i'd weld with it. got mine from grizzly tools. nice that its 110 volts and 70 pounds and i can run ,23. ,30, ,35 and it uses gas. just another option to your miller and licholn

What's the actual amps on that 110v one? No-way it's 155amps and 20% duty cycle...a normal 110v welder is like 88-90amps and 15-20% duty cycle, and that will often trip a dedicated 20A breaker, which means you're getting all the juice you can and no other model or brand is going to get more.

The Chicago-Electric 151 is all setup for gas, has the regulator and all that, nothing extra to buy..I already have a bottle, so it would all just hookup. However, I'm not totally sold on it...online it's $159 for the reman one, but my coupon is only for in-store, and the stores don't carry any reman welders...so that might be a lost cause...the non-reman one is $199 (well that's what it's listed for online, instore it's $249, but I'm sure they would match their online price), minus 20% would give it to me for $160 + tax...not a horrible deal, but not sure if I want to get it or not. (also weighing on my mind is when I called today the guy said they had like 4 there, the computer said 10 but he said that atleast 1 was on display and he thought there were 2 or 3 defective ones...I'm like wow, defective welders out of the box...nice )

I agree with you the duty cycle is low, however, I've never fully trusted those things, I had a Lincoln Weldpak 100, which is 88amps and some really low duty-cycle, but I could weld that thing almost forever, in the 3 years I beat on it I only had one time it shut-down from heat, and it was ready to go again pretty quick...so I thought their duty-cycle numbers were way conservative...but maybe Chicago-Electric's aren't that conservative...