hey guys, looking at upgrading my syncrowave as im starting to do quite a bit of thick aluminum stuff and the duty cycle on the 200 is just not cutting it for me.
it seems that these 2 machines are about the same price and nearly same specs from what i can tell. anyone have personal experience with these?

 

dynasty because its an inverter.

 

just got off the phone with miller and it looks like i'll be going with a dynasty 350.
that said, anyone looking to buy a nearly brand new sync 200? its got ~30-40 hrs on it, comes with a homemade water cooler setup and a 20F torch(flex head)

 

+1 DYN350

 

were u located

 

If you are looking for portability I would get the dynasty. Because of problems I have had with the dynasty I would get the syncrowave for everything else.

 

I'm in Fresno, ca

 

Dynasty is the only way to roll.

 

its on order, should be here in 2 weeks.

 

On our Dynasty 350 the only problem we have it is the poor high frequency start (the worst of any machine I've ever used), but this seems to be common throughout the Dynasty range. (Haven't tried the blue lightning model so I can't comment on that one)
Apart from that it's brilliant in everything else, I particularly like the soft squarewave function for welding the intercoolers and radiators we do.
Regards Andrew from Oz.

 

Have you ever had the problem where the machine just goes " zap-zap-zap-zap" ? We had miller engineers,electricians,and the power company come out to fix this. Miller replaced all the boards in all three machines and they still failed to get a proper arc after 7-8 hrs of hard AC welding.

 

I have fixed this on a few dynastys, its not necessarily the machine. First off half of the miller techs think the point gap for the HF is .016", its not, its .010", second are ground issues, make sure your table is grounded. And the biggest thing over most else is tungsten surface finish, if you are using bench or belt grinder you better be running a FINE wheel/belt. There is also an adjustment on one of the boards you can use to get better HF snap.
Oh and in the software of the machines you can adjust the HF intensity and start time, increase both. I think I run 50 and 50.