Everlast 250 EXT TIG WELDER

[DVA]

Just received the 250 EXT, am I the first one?

[zoama]

Just received the 250 EXT, am I the first one?

Lets see lots of pictures and videos and stuff... it's hard to come by right now.

[todmorg]

Darn it, I wanted to be first.

How does it look?

[redbeard]

You must be, I haven't even got a shipping/tracking notice yet. This is the first thing I ever bought that had to be shipped by truck.

Whereabouts are you located?

[DVA]

I just fired it up once. This thing is smooth and has a nice clean ark. I need to get a new welding helmet because I have a cheep auto dark helmet that works fin for MIG but did not like the pulsing I played with on the TIG. I am waiting for a gas regulator and could only make it work with a small leak. Could not get the fittings to allow a hose barb on my current regulator.

Anyway this thing his huge. Check out the size compared to my Millermatic 252.

By playing with the program it looks like there are 10 programs you can store and adjust when wanted. So if you are stick welding your program will be saved. This is awesome if you have a setting for tacking, welding thin steel, welding thick steel, some AC for aluminum aluminum and so on. This will save time when moving to different welds with out going and reprogramming each feature.

[zoama]

Nice ! It's a much larger machine than I had imagined. Thanks for the pics.

Umm... someone's sewn their trousers round ya torch lead.

[parkour]

Interesting, thanks for posting.
Being rated at 250 amps like the plain EX, I wonder why it's so much larger.

[redbeard]

Yes, quite large indeed. Thanks for the preview!

Any idea what the weight is?

How is the manual?

[todmorg]

Nice job on the manual, it seems to cover all the new features very thoroughly.

[67cudafb]

Wow that is a whole lot bigger than I thought it would be. How much does it weigh? I have a miller encotig and the 250ext looks bigger than it. This is an inverter tig not a transformer right? I guess thats why EL is bringing out 200ext to compete with Miller dynasty, I guessing it will be smaller. Hope you give a full report when you have it up and running. Good luck with it hope it welds as sweet as it looks.

[DVA]

Yes those that is a genuine dungarees.

[DVA]

So my welder came with this orange tube about 1/8 inch diameter, anyone know what this is for?