I am surprised to see that the 225 is almost the same price in Canada as it was when I got mine a few years ago. I am really happy with this one but as I said before I do not have much experience. I can say that if you want to do 1/2" with it don't expect to make long passes. It's duty cycle at full pop is not very good and it will shut of with the thermal protection. It will however weld 3/16" or less very well. One thing I should buy is a flex head 150amp torch! I have one on the 200amp torch and it is nice but the body is too large for welding small stuff. It's a money pit just like all the rest of this stuff! It's expenses like this that some people don't think about when they question the cost of our hobby! To outfit and maintain a hobby level machine shop costs tens of thousands! Pretty cool what we can build with all of it though!
