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Advantages to lift-start TIG over HF start TIG

80K views 20 replies 17 participants last post by  Burpee  
WelderBoy said:
Hmm, well I have an on off switch on my torch for "tight spots". So I see no reason for the lift start at all. turn it on, hf kicks in, arc initiates, weld starts. Wham bam thank you ma'am.
If you weld on cars, you may fry computers and radios with HF. Especially you can wreck reception on a radio with HF. And if you are ever welding anything with capacitors, etc. you can goof them up. So that's why you might use lift start. Or, maybe the machine is a stick welder, and you don't want to add the HF box to the machine if you rarely use tig.