Thanks for the confirmation Oscar. That's the funky behavior I was seeing too.

I reported it to the guys at Baker's Gas that make some YouTube videos and have a backdoor to ESAB to get them to make it more clear and document what it does because the manual doesn't explain any of it.

I tried to do some TIG followed by Stick and it was not working. Come to find out that if you're doing stick and the pedal is plugged in then the welder behaves totally different. It's not documented in the manuals or anything either. So I wanted to understand what the pedal is supposed to do in Sti...

Thanks for all the advice everybody. I've been doing some experimenting with different parts trying to figure things out. Some of the stubby accessory descriptions are kind of confusing, so I ended up ordering a few parts that weren't compatible and thus useless, but luckily they didn't cost very mu...

I wanted to ask about some inconsistent information floating around out there about starting out TIG welding aluminum right the first time. This question is for an air cooled #17 HeliArc torch that comes stock with an ESAB Rebel 205ic (MTS machine). Roy (and often Jody too) recommends using #5 cups ...