[E.rodz]

I myself was on this fence you are on to .I was at a local welding shop and was loking at the new miller inverters and asked the guys at the welding shop what tig machine that they would buy and both the guys pointed to the miller syncrowave 250 and both replied that machine is tried and true and if anything goes wrong with it they could fix it in nothing flat but they could not even remember the last one that was in to be serviced. I looked around on the service benches and saw 3 new miller inverters and asked whats the most common thing that goes wrong with theese i wanted one because of the physical size was alot smaller with more options and after he showed me the stack of circut boards inside and told me they just keep throwing boards at it until they are fixed.needless to say i bought the oldskool syncrowave 250 the only thing that i don't like is the size of the welder but it is awsome.try this before you buy though.alot of contractors rent machines like this all the time and you can buy them for what ever the asking price minus the rental fees.i bought mine after the contractor that i work for rented the machine for 9 months and i bought it for 1200 bucks ask your local welding shop if they have any rental returns.remember if you want to weld aluminum you want nothing less than a 200 amp machine.