ive got some spare pennies this month and im finding myself getting asked to do more and more welding out side of work. whats your opinions on spending say £450 for the inverter fusion 160amp machine or the kemppi minarc 150(examples of many in this sort of range) over say something like the parweld xti 160 which has got some cracking reviews for under £200. my point being the duty cycles arent that far away from each other give or take a little, but are you buying more reliablility with the brand names or just a bigger repair bill when it does decide to give up, the day after the warranty runs out???