Felix Miata wrote:
> Ray Davison wrote:
>  
> 
>>How do you define "top brand"?  They all come out of
China, the market
>>is cut throat, junk cannot survive in this market.  The price
>>difference is marketing.  Mostly a pretty box.
> 
> 
> Actually there's more. Shop by weight. You need some copper in there for
> it to be good. 

That is changing a lot.  For at least ten years I have been trying to 
justify a TIG welder.  Every year I go to the SEMA show in Vegas and 
pester the vendors.  The one I had been looking at sits on the floor 
on wheels.  The new model is more powerful, has a longer duty cycle, 
and a handle on top.  It is about one fifth the size.  They got rid of 
most of the copper.

Most of the reduction in size is due to the efforts of the integrated 
circuit manufacturing companies.  I am an electronic design engineer. 
  Well, maybe "design" is a stretch.  Mostly I string ICs together. 
And the density just keeps increasing.

Ray


 
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