"Free" inverter

[Ricardo_R5]

is this any good? I was after one, but the price is so amazing i'm afraid it's pure crap.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....MEWA:IT&viewitem=&item=230106949011&rd=1&rd=1

 

[weldequip]

Dunno it's all in German!
You have summed it up yourself, "the price is so amazing I'm afraid it's pure crap". If it was made in Germany you could put another 1500 quid on that price!
weldequip

 

[weldequip]

Looking at the spec. it's only 100 Amps! You could have a good, reliable European made machine with more power for less money!
weldequip

 

[weldequip]

Some suckers just paid 350 quid for it, hope it wasn't you!
weldequip

 

[Cappy]

Some suckers just paid 350 quid for it, hope it wasn't you!
weldequip

hmmm, me too, I think we got a brand new Kemppi inverter for less than that at the W&L, one of our really good investments. First time I've ever had a play with a DC set - wow- so smooth, light and portable - magic

Just got to persuade them to get the TIG add-on

 

[Ricardo_R5]

Nop it wasn't me, but I saw some feedback points of people that bought the machine form that seller and they seem happy, well at least in a short time, maybe in next year the machine fall apart and stop working
I'm going after a clarke 150te on ebay, but there been weeks since I saw one at good price, weldequip could you send me a PM with price of this clarke if you stock them? And also price of shipping to Lisbon - Portugal (yes i'm Portuguese)

 

[AVENLEY 10]

Done a bit of internet research Free is a chinese import from a company called Felzen Group they also import chinese tractors/quad bikes/pumps etc and have a turnover of 5-10million dollars(a german Clarke maybe).
I was also recently told by a repairer of welders/generators that these chinese welders are so cheap that it costs more to ship them than they cost to buy and he will not touch them and as for the current flood of cheap generators well their all rubbish not so much the engines but the alternators.He had had his fingers burnt to the tune of £500 for the repair of a diesel generator when after fitting three alternator ends that kept burning out to this generator he found that it was in fact a chinese yanmar copy marketed by a well known welder/generator manufacturer as their own.
The end result of all these chinese imports will be the end of the middle market with only a choice of cheap or expensive top end products, this being the case when I tried to purchase a potapower. Either the choice of a chinese one at £200, that was not up to the job or £1700-£3000 for an Enerpac model with nothing in between.I wonder if the company bosses who buy cheap equipment for their employees to use will practice what they preach when it comes to company cars and downsize from their BMW/Mercedes to a chinese car when they start selling them here some how I think not!