Quote Originally Posted by gorillam View Post
I just found the answer, seems like a pretty common problem with these machines then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQoOP9DHJJQ


I had already stated I have the welding experience and qualifications to check all settings and parameters, I am looking for what I can check that is wrong with the MACHINE internals. Found the answer this was the problem.

Maybe you should try trusting people sometime. I know a TON of people here are hobbiest's here, this is just our backup welder in our tig shop.....
The new machines don't have HF points. The early machines did often get a point gap issue after being tossed around during shipping. The late model machines do not use points on the HF board as a fix for those earlier issues. At this point there is really not much in the way of user service, except making sure all board interconnect cables are secure (another thing that can loosen in shipping) or swapping out the HF board. One of the main reasons for asking for all your settings is to try to reproduce the problem. These machines are microprocessor controlled, and you may have discovered a bug in the software, because of some setting that is causing the computer to do HF restarts over and over, causing the studdering you mentioned. Since you say it has done this since new, why didn't you send it back and get it warrantied right away? Everlast covers shipping if you have a problem right out of the box, just to take care of bad things that can happen during shipping. People have posted picture of machines that looked like they were dropped out of a plane. Obviously Everlast doesn't have much control over shipping damage, but has a great warranty to cover whatever might go wrong.