Hobart Cybertig 100

By swsweld (****)

Date 01-08-2009 03:21

Left over equipment at a local business closing has a Hobart Cyber Tig 100 (300 amp) with HF and water cooled tig welder. Can't weld with it before I buy it but was curious if anyone on the forum has one or can recommend it. Our aluminum tig welding machines have had it and this opportunity just came up. They will sell it very cheap I have been told. They just want them gone. What were they worth new?

Thanks for any input.

By Lawrence (*****)

Date 01-08-2009 12:00

I'm speaking from the top of my head here... But I don't think there is any such thing as a "new" Hobart Cyber Tig.. I believe Hobart stopped making large GTAW power supplies when Miller Electric swallowed them many years ago.

Cybertig is a Transformer Rectifier power supply with square wave balence control, some have a pulsation option.

My experience with them is that they were poor power supplies for GTAW of aluminum... Rheostats going out, circuit board failures and other maintaince related problems along with very poor HF arc starting no mater what was done with the points... These Cyber Tigs I'm talking about were purchased in the late 1980's at about the same time we purchased Synchrowave 250's. The Cyber Tigs were phased out in about 1996, they Synchrowaves may still be in service for all I know.. They were in 2003.

The Cybertig will draw quite alot of power just sitting idle and more when you weld....

Nothing wrong with a cheap machine... but......

Caviet Emptor!

By swsweld (****)

Date 01-24-2009 18:55

Thanks for the info Lawrence.

We decided not to get the Hobart since it would have been primarily for aluminum.

Our Syncrowave 250 is on it's last leg and our Dynasty, that did great on aluminum, has died. Our guys used it on the other underground job and sand, mud and rain are not good for them.