I bought it for household chores, cooked a fence, welded a gate in the garage, while I like everything, an easy-to-use device, that's it for the house. As a welder with experience, I’ll say that you shouldn’t overpay for more expensive welders, with all sorts of bells and whistles, this is already for the pros, many functions are not needed by the average user, and you won’t understand them. The welder must control the welding, not the welding machine the welder.