I'm looking to purchase a new welder that is dual voltage so that I can use it at home and in my shop at work. I have been looking at the Miller Maxstar 150 tig and the Millermatic DVI2 mig. The welder will be used for welding tabs and such on a buggy to start with. also I have never used a tig but have welded a lot with mig. Does anybody have experience with either of these welders? What direction would you guys go?
Tig is more like oxy / acet welding that anything else. I would agree that mig is the way to go for ease and probably general usefullness. That said, I believe with the maxstar you can also stick weld if you have heavy welding to do and probably out perform the mig in thickness, asuming 110v.
The maxstar will not do alum. You need ac tig for that. The dynasty series from miller is a dual voltage tig that does both ac and dc tig so you could do alum or steel in tig and also stick weld.
MIG vs. TIG really depends on what you plan to weld - material, size, complexity.
110/220 vs. 220-only really depends on how much you really plan to use the 110 - the 220-only models are going to get you a lot more machine for the price vs. the variable models.
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