hey guys welcome back to well.com so if you've been watching the channel for any
amount of time you know that we use ahp quite a bit here because we have a lot of
new welders hobbyist welders that are getting into welding and they don't have the right equipment
that's kind of where ahp shines right for the the amount of performance you can get for the
price you're actually going to spend this is a great machine but it's been a while since they've
done an upgrade so we're going to go ahead and check out the 2021 edition well that was fast
first thing i noticed is it's smaller and it's a little bit more lightweight right off the top
and we've also gotten away from the analog dial system and switched over to a digital screen so
let's go ahead and flip it on and see what kind of different menu options that we have and different
abilities all right so right off the bat i noticed that the fan's a little bit quieter which you know
if you've ever had a machine with a loud fan it gets rather annoying this is actually a pretty
quiet fan some of the cool functions on here is i have i can run with or without pulse now i have my
settings here for pulse just by the the touch of a button and then i can go through and kind of uh
adjust pre-flow post flow starting and end amps the frequency of my pulse base amps time our arc
time on changing up on the foot pedal i can use uh with or without a foot pedal whether it's in
2t or 4t on the the tig torch or just use a pedal completely i can also go from high frequency start
to a lift arc so that's pretty you know overall pretty robust for just doing some dc tig welding
we can switch over here to ac stick we have that capability
we can change our frequency and our balance uh with this anytime you're going to weld on ac stick
welding dc option pretty much straightforward we can adjust our amps all the way up to 160
down to 20 amps i did notice that if you push the button and twist you make incremental adjustments
of 10 and if you let off the button you make them uh by one amp at a time another cool feature with
this new system is rapid set so let's say i just open up the dc menu and i hit rapid well
now i get some different configurations here so i can run 6011 6013 and 7018
one thing i would like to see on this machine that it doesn't have is 6010 but unless you're
doing some open route welding in the garage you're probably not going to need that function
anyway most of the hobbyist entry level welders 6011 7018 you can pretty much get everything
done with those two rods but i can also change my diameter as well as the type of electrode
just by switching through here and it presets everything as far as my amperage and then i
just go over here and select my base metal thickness now it gives me an actual range to
use so it recommends 90 amps but i can also bring that up and i can bring that back down and then to
get back to the recommended settings i just rotate the arrow until i get to that red indicator right
there and this rapid set is going to work in all the different functions let's go ahead and check
out some ac tig ac tig i have a lot of different functions here pre and post flow start and end
amps frequency adjustment base amps time on and then we get over here to frequency and balance
now if we hit the rapid set we go in here i can adjust tungsten diameter so let's
say i want to run uh some eighth inch material with a 332 tungsten i can just adjust the 332
and then go over to the eighth inch indicator and i want to run this on pedal 125 amps is what
it recommends for that material so and then once again i can adjust up or down to kind of suit my
needs as a welder so there's some some adjustable or adjustability in the rapid set menu which i
think that's pretty cool let's go ahead and see how it welds we'll start off with some dc tig
i'm going to try this rapid set out i'm going to probably run a 332nd tungsten
i've got some 3 16 material here on the table switch over there recommends 150 amps i'm going
to be running off the pedal let's go ahead and hook up the accessories and see how she does
all right so before we get into the welding one thing a couple things i noticed that as i was
setting this up it comes with the novo rotoflex tig torch and the foot pedal the cool thing is
i can swap this head out for a number 17 or a smaller one so i can go to a number nine if
i need to so i do like that aspect that this comes right out of the box with that rotoflex
two other key features the uh the gas inlet has been extended so anybody that's ever used one of
these machines before or any any machine where you have to hook up your gas a lot of times that nut
is inaccessible and it starts to wear out and you have to tighten it you have to break the machine
apart get on the inside and tighten it up from the inside now i have the ability to actually
use a separate wrench when i'm putting that inlet in and out of the machine so that's
also a nice touch another thing i noticed is the 120 or 240 volt outlet in the back so that
i can hook a water cooler up right up out of the box it's got that little adapter right built in
the back something that the previous versions did not have all right let's get into welding
all right so right off the bat arc initiation looks pretty good our stability is good
seems like i got a nice smooth puddle overall pretty good performance all right so a lot of
entry level machines do pretty good in dc let's go ahead and try ac out because that's where you
know they struggle a lot of times all right so we're going to try some of the aluminum
out i'm still running the the 332 tungsten got some 14 gauge material i'm a big fan of pedal
and high freq tells us about 85 amps let's see how true it is
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all right so initial thoughts on the ac i thought it sounded a little funky but
overall i mean it performed really well um didn't have any issues good arc initiation
good arc stability throughout the puddle like i said the sound threw me off a little bit
uh it's just like a different um different tone that i'm used to hearing but i mean i was able to
weld with it no problem so a lot of a lot of machines you know coming in entry level they
really have a hard problem with that arc stability it's just not a true you know um it's a very
unstable arc very erratic this one stayed right on point didn't have any issues with it overall nice
all right so if you're a hobbyist or entry-level welder it's a great machine it's coming in
under a thousand bucks i think they got it going for about seven eight hundred dollars
um i do like the rapid set option because it takes a lot of the guesswork out you just figure out the
type of processor you're going to be running diameter of tungsten or your electrode the
material size and it you know pretty much sets everything for you so it takes a lot of the guess
work out so you can spend more time welding less time messing around with your settings
uh cool thing is is that since we are we now own this one that means we can give this one
away so head on over the instagram page and we're going to give this bad boy to one lucky winner
i hope you guys found the info or the the video informational uh educational and until
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