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HTP has teased on their site for a few weeks about “something new” on the horizon. They just released a pic of the Revolution 2500 yesterday with a preorder date of tomorrow 6/18. They also aren’t (directly) releasing any info about it till then, but it obviously looks like a MIG machine. Whether they meant to or not, you can back-door your way into the manuals section and get all the details from the actual manual.

My take on it is that’s it’s one of the most feature packed AC/DC MIG/TIG/Stick (MTS) machines available and surprisingly a 110/220 machine (they even approve 15A 110). Pulse is available in all modes including stick and double pulse option also available in MIG (in addition to regular pulse, synergic, and manual). There are a handful of pulsed MIG machines around that are also MTS but most of them make sacrifices on the TIG side like no HF starts or lack the ability to disable TIG “hot starts”. Here it appears you can kill the hot starts and get true 4 Amp starts for very thin material. Interesting they give you square and triangle waveforms too. Stick has Arc Force and Hot Start adjustability like you’d find in a full featured stick machine but mostly absent in MTS machines.

Not trying to push HTP although my home machine (Invertig 221) has admittedly made me somewhat of a “fan boy” of their products. To me it looks the the first “all in one” auto body capable machine that makes zero sacrifices in either MIG, TIG, or Stick. Price should be interesting for an Italian-made machine. At least it will hopefully raise the bar for future combo welders that routinely drop important features in those machines.