Video review of PowerArc 160 STH TIG

[Rambozo]

You need to shield the camera from light leakage around the shade. All you really see are reflections. Maybe go to a darker shade, and lock the camera not to use auto settings.

[everlastsupport]

You need to shield the camera from light leakage around the shade. All you really see are reflections. Maybe go to a darker shade, and lock the camera not to use auto settings.

Yea, first 6 minutes were all reflection for me too, but the camera drop save the video for me . You could see all the scratches on the face shield, that was sort of cool.

Last part was good though. How cold was it? I still miss my 160STH. But like my 210EXT a lot...

[youngnstudly]

Like I said, not the best quality video but I made it at like 9:00 that night for the contest, so it was a "quickie" video. I wasn't even going to use the face shield, but then I remembered all the videos I've seen where the person welds and you get (arc) flashed. Things got blurry when I zoomed in, but the idea was to show that this welder can thick or thin stuff smoothly.

I first tried mounting the camera inside my welding helmet (right in front of my face), but that didn't work out well. The face shield is only a shade 6 or so which didn't work out either. A big peeve of mine is the "hum" of the shop lights though!

I don't even know all the settings on my new camera yet, so I will have to check into setting things manually.

The last few nights the temp in the shop has been warmer but still only 48-50 degrees...hey it's better than 40 degrees if you're an optimist (which I'm not!).

If I had the 210 EXT, I wouldn't miss the 160 STH at all!

[everlastsupport]

Like I said, not the best quality video but I made it at like 9:00 that night for the contest, so it was a "quickie" video. I wasn't even going to use the face shield, but then I remembered all the videos I've seen where the person welds and you get (arc) flashed. Things got blurry when I zoomed in, but the idea was to show that this welder can thick or thin stuff smoothly.

I first tried mounting the camera inside my welding helmet (right in front of my face), but that didn't work out well. The face shield is only a shade 6 or so which didn't work out either. A big peeve of mine is the "hum" of the shop lights though!

I don't even know all the settings on my new camera yet, so I will have to check into setting things manually.

The last few nights the temp in the shop has been warmer but still only 48-50 degrees...hey it's better than 40 degrees if you're an optimist (which I'm not!).

If I had the 210 EXT, I wouldn't miss the 160 STH at all!

I have a Sony camera, still do somewhere, that I could record welding with no shade over it. Was shocked the first time I tried it.

50 is a little cold, but it was in the 50's here in Florida when I woke up today. I was plasma cutting scrap for my son in shorts

True, the 250EX and the 210EXT I have are nice, but minus the AC, the 160STH is a dynomite machine. Jody in a video mentioned he has one under his bench. I liked it a lot, just no room for all the welders and it went (to a friend at a great price).

[youngnstudly]

I have a Sony camera, still do somewhere, that I could record welding with no shade over it. Was shocked the first time I tried it.

50 is a little cold, but it was in the 50's here in Florida when I woke up today. I was plasma cutting scrap for my son in shorts

True, the 250EX and the 210EXT I have are nice, but minus the AC, the 160STH is a dynomite machine. Jody in a video mentioned he has one under his bench. I liked it a lot, just no room for all the welders and it went (to a friend at a great price).

I'm just using the cannon digital camera that was my Christmas present last year...and so far I've dropped it twice and left it in the cold shop overnight (in the 20 degree range) once or twice too. The display got all screwy on it until I left it in the sun to dry out.

The temp isn't terrible here, but with the cold I have (fever, chills, sweats, etc) it's not as easily tolerated being sick. My ex-boss used to tell us that drinking scotch for 2 or 3 days worked well for killing colds. I don't drink alcohol though...besides, he drank scotch every night after work anyways, even when he didn't have a cold, so I'm not sure how he came to that conclusion! The past few months it's been in the low 40's in the shop, and that's a little too cold for me! I'm not what you would call "heavily insulated!"

I'm really finding that the 160 STH is more than enough for most any project that I need DC tig for. Even the stick welding function works fine for the projects I do. In Jody's case, the 160 STH is a good backup welder (just in case all his other welders fail at the same time)

I've only ever needed 160 amps or more when I'm welding aluminum or magnesium, and I doubt I've used more than 110 or 120 amps so far with this machine. I should record the display while welding, just to see how many amps I'm using on the thicker stuff to kill my curiosity.

[youngnstudly]

New video was taken for this 2013 summer contest. It's still not perfect, but it's better quality than I think the last ones were. Plus I learned a little about editing video.

Video 1:


Video 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07KOHgOTYFc


Video 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKxSm...t=HL1380623355

I hope I will be able to get a few more videos done for the contest...talk about cutting it close!

[youngnstudly]

I decided to make one last video of this unit for the Ebay auction I listed it in, so here it is. Shows a little closer view of the welder, and a few short clips of welding misc. junk together in a hurry to show the welder in action.