Review on 💡 Efficient Portable Digital Display Voltage Electrode: Experience Precision Power Measurement Anywhere by Flex Graham

Ordered Dec 13, 2019 Fri $165.11 $125.99 Welder, $9.13 Tax, $29.99 I say I am 78 years old, with 60 years Electrical engineering training/experience in the US Navy [unlicensed electrician] and 55 years as a hobby/maintenance welder [uncertified].2019Dec23 Mon:V For the first weld, I used the Hey-Up MMA/ARC 200 at AC 115V 60Hz hooked up to see if I can get a decent weld without much gluing. Run Lincoln 1/8" E6011 and 3/32" E7018 and get impressive results. Test weld on 13 gauge steel scrap and burn through at 110 amp setting on Hey Up display. After adjusting the dial, he received a very good weld. It was then hooked up to 230VAC to run a metal bending brake which I am building to retrofit my 20 ton HFT (Harbor Freight Tool) workshop press with an air/hydraulic jack as shown. on YouTube video. I use some spare 2 x 2 x ¼" box tubing, 2 2 x 2 x ¼" bends and 1-1/2" Schedule 40 tubing I have in my shed. MIG spot weld the brake and stick Weld to complete the brake.E7018 would look good.As I had a project to work on I didn't do many TESTS before welding with Hey-Up MMA/ARC 200. I connected a clamp-on ammeter when connected to 230VAC is, and read 10A AC when welding 120A DC+ with 1/8" E6011. Drawn 10A AC also with a 3/32" E7018 at 110A DC+ had a bit of a problem setting the E7018 weld current, somewhere between 80 and 110 amps. When I started running a ¼" angle on a 2- Welding inch box tubing, the welds were on cold metal at about 40 F. I got cold welds with low penetration and low porosity Because the metal got hot from the welding, the welds on the E7018 were better than I got the dial /Display set to 128 amps After about 45 minutes of welding with the E7018 at 128 amps the welder shut down due to overheating when the RED light came on I'm pretty sure it was my fault but the welder is up for 60% Duty cycle designed Not really sure if Hey-Up MMA/ARC 200 counts 60%---at what current settings?Typically duty cycle is stated at the rated power and the duty cycle increases to 100% when the current decreases. When viewing/setting up the 128A weld, I was a bit surprised that the machine shut down at around 50°F ambient temperature. I say this ---- I'm glad the overheat function works ----- better than the welder burns out and smokes. I let the welder idle for about half an hour and kept the machine cooling fan running while I cleaned everything [it's getting late] and the red overheat light never went out. Half an hour later [after cleaning] I turned the welder off, then back on and the red light went out. I think the power needs to be reused to fix the ERROR. Lincoln recommends the 3/32" E7018 which is 65---100 amps so I'm not sure how AUKURATE this $126 inverter IGBT welder really is? But for a welder that costs less than $150, I can make minor adjustments until I get good welds. The instruction manual is a disaster in my opinion. It is clearly not written for the US/UK market. There are SO MANY cases to refer to [about 80% of a 6 page manual] that listing all the problems would be too tedious. The grammar, word choice, punctuation and thought coherence and sentence structure is just awful. There are terms/words that I have never heard of in the electrical/welding field. When I finished reading 6=pages I really got a headache [I don't remember having a headache until I read the manual]. A few days later I tried reading the manual again and found SOME words that didn't make sense before but are still hard to read. I may update my review when I have time to run more E7018 rods. I will focus more on dial/display setup, AC and DC welding power consumption and weld quality. Sincerely, Don 44401