so would this be more welder than whats actully gonna be needed for the most common welding that most you guys do.

 

thats a great welder. I highly recommend it

 

well personally i can't see a need for more then 200 amps on a daily basis. I have had no problem welding very large intercoolers with my sync 200 so unless you will be welding very thick aluminum i can't see a reason to spend the extra money on a big welder.

 

I second not needing more than 200a unless you weld thick things a lot, or are going to stick with it.

I wouldnt even really consider a transformer machine nowendays unless you are going to hammer it and have a super high duty cycle in a production environment.

Look at the thermal arc 185 its a great machine at a good price point with a lot of features the syncrowaves dont have. Same goes for the dynasty 200dx and the lincoln invertec 205

 

I haven't outgrown my Syncrowave 200 and don't think I ever will. Even aluminum intakes aren't bad, my buddies older syncrowave 180 is probably even good enough for 95% of hobby stuff.

 

300 is fairly serious, and I can't imagine the power it takes to run it. My sync 200 was over 50 amps when maxed, which was a lot.

 

Well if you ever want to weld anything over .25" thick in aluminum you will need all of that 300 amps.

 

I would assume you are looking at an older / used 300 (as the 300s have long since been discontinued I believe) for a good deal which probably defeats the "need" versus "want" discussion. However, I think chris is correct and the deal breaker will be the power requirements. Our sync 350 prior to owning the dynasties was an insane power sucking monster. I can run 5 dynasties for the same power usage as that power pig, and if I remember correctly it was supposed to be more power efficient then older models.

 

I didnt read the thread topic correctly. I thought it said syncrowave 200.

Well I have the syncrowave 200 and I highly recommend that.