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Just got this new little guy from HTP. It looks like they're wanting to compete with some of the other "lunchbox" stick welder offerings from other companies, with a few advantages.

Thinking it was going to be a box-inside-a-box, I was pleasantly surprised it came with a pretty big plastic carry case. The small box had the work/ground clamp, HTP stick welding gloves, and HTP T-shirt.

The case is not uber-high quality, but it's better than nothing. The large size lets you put the gloves and plenty other stuff inside with so much space.




Initial observations:Power cord is a nice, soft flexible rubber 12/3 cord with a 6-50P plug, 10 feet longWork/ground clamp is pretty normal 400A rating, cable is 10 feet long.Stinger is 250A rated, good strong spring as one would expect in a good stinger. Cable is 15 feet long.both clamp and stinger have USA-made Flex-a-prene 4awg cable, very flexible, and both are included with the welderNo Arc Force nor Hot-startcan be used for TIG (not sure if scratch-start or lift-start yet)has a PFC circuit so I assume it can run from ~90V to ~270V, and I would be willing to bet it will run on a wide variety of portable generators, where as other cheaper/lower-quality inverter stick welders will void your warranty unless you have clean power with

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Reply:Oops, on the Hot-start and Arc Force, I meant to say, "No adjustability on Hot-start nor on Arc-force".

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