bought a new to me dynasty 350

[shovelon]

Oh, and my repair center only charges $75 for an estimate.

[mikesystem]

Hold on there. I would take it to another service center. The likelyhood that it worked perfect when you used it last, then won't fire up when next used does not indicate to me that all three boards are dead. I have only had boards fail under load.

And the fact they offered to buy it is sketchy too. I bet they never even opened it. I have a dead Dynasty350 that endured some 8000 hours of hard labor that I keep for an ornament. It indeed failed under full load, and has bad boards. However I would gladly take $750 for it, as I know for a fact that it died a noble death and aint coming back to life.

8000hrs on it ? How many arc starts ? Lol the one I bought only has 200 hrs on it glad u got too see 8000hrs out of it

[shovelon]

8000hrs on it ? How many arc starts ? Lol the one I bought only has 200 hrs on it glad u got too see 8000hrs out of it

That is a guess because it won't even power up. But it was a production unit burning alum for 5 years. It was a pre-blue-lightning unit and I really like how the blue lightning works.

[Country Metals]

Everything can be converted into a time frame.

150,000 / 60 MPH = roughly 2,500 hours on a car that you are looking to purchase. That would mean you are looking to buy a car that ran for a year and a quarter at 60 mph during a normal 40 hour work week, year.


8,000 hours would equal 4 work years (52 weeks x 40 hrs week, - 80 hrs vacation)

8,000 hours x hourly arc starts of avg 35 equals 280,000

I figured 35 as an average of 20 ASph if welding, and 50 ASph if fitting/tacking

[shovelon]

Everything can be converted into a time frame.

150,000 / 60 MPH = roughly 2,500 hours on a car that you are looking to purchase. That would mean you are looking to buy a car that ran for a year and a quarter at 60 mph during a normal 40 hour work week, year.


8,000 hours would equal 4 work years (52 weeks x 40 hrs week, - 80 hrs vacation)

8,000 hours x hourly arc starts of avg 35 equals 280,000

I figured 35 as an average of 20 ASph if welding, and 50 ASph if fitting/tacking

Had'nt thought of it that way. Puts a different light on it.

[mikesystem]

Wow that's good way of figuring it out