I’ve got a older supermig in that Iam working on - I will have a look tomorrow for you and see what it saysThis, this is what i'm getting at lol, the manual and sales bs on websites where they're selling them list it as a 180A machine, its sold as a 180A machine, yet the plate says otherwise, forget about duty cycle and dodgy chinese stick welders
what makes the sealey more of a 180A machine than say a 160te/tm clarke like mine which according to the data plate is slightly more powerful (marginal but its there)
if you go by the sales stuff the sealey comes over like a much bigger more powerful machine, a rival to the Parweld 181 or something (35-185A on the data plate of those)
parweld and most other non dodgy welders (around the sealeys price range) seem to be fairly good at not bs'ing, like others have said its not just the supermig 180 name, its the fact they state 30-180A everywhere, until you actually find a close up pic of the front of the machines with the spec sheet visable, Much confusion, i'm pretty sure the older supermigs werent sold like this