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product_id: 511699780
title: "HITBOX 200A AC/DC TIG Welder 6-in-1 with Pulse & Square Wave, HF Start Aluminum TIG, MMA/Stick Welding, 220V IGBT Inverter, Dual Cooling Fan, Digital Display, Foot Pedal Compatible (HBT250P)"
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# 200A max output power AC/DC with pulse & square wave tech Memory settings for 12+ customizable functions HITBOX 200A AC/DC TIG Welder 6-in-1 with Pulse & Square Wave, HF Start Aluminum TIG, MMA/Stick Welding, 220V IGBT Inverter, Dual Cooling Fan, Digital Display, Foot Pedal Compatible (HBT250P)

**Price:** R13045
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

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- **What is this?** HITBOX 200A AC/DC TIG Welder 6-in-1 with Pulse & Square Wave, HF Start Aluminum TIG, MMA/Stick Welding, 220V IGBT Inverter, Dual Cooling Fan, Digital Display, Foot Pedal Compatible (HBT250P)
- **How much does it cost?** R13045 with free shipping
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## Why This Product

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## Key Features

- • **Effortless Arc Control:** 2T/4T modes and high-frequency start make welding smoother and beginner-friendly without compromising pro features.
- • **Tailored to Your Craft:** 12+ configurable functions including AC frequency and balance let you dial in perfect welds and reduce tungsten wear.
- • **Pro-Level Precision Welding:** 200A output with advanced pulse and square wave tech delivers flawless aluminum and steel welds every time.
- • **Safety & Reliability Guaranteed:** VRD, overvoltage, overcurrent, and overload protections backed by a 5-year warranty keep you welding worry-free.
- • **Built to Work Hard, Cool to Stay Cool:** Dual fan cooling system ensures longer welding sessions with stable arcs and zero overheating interruptions.

## Overview

The HITBOX HBT250P is a compact, inverter-based AC/DC TIG welder offering 200A output with pulse and square wave technology. Designed for professionals and ambitious hobbyists, it supports aluminum and steel welding with customizable settings saved in memory. Featuring advanced arc control modes, dual fan cooling, and comprehensive safety protections, it delivers excellent performance and reliability at an unbeatable price point.

## Description

HITBOX TIG Welder AC/DC with Pulse, 200A Professional Aluminum Welding Machine with Square Wave/Stick/MMA/IGBT, 220V Exquisite All-Round Arc Welder, Offering You Excellent Cost Performance (HBT250P) - desertcart.com

Review: Good Value AC/DC Tig - For the price of this tig welder you really can't go wrong, it does AC and DC tig along with stick. I did not do any stick welding with it yet. Ran the machine on a few parts and it welded flawlessly. It comes with everything you need for tig welding except a regulator, tungsten and cylinder of argon, it does not come with a stick electrode holder. This welder uses the smaller 25mm dinse twist lock connectors, it has high frequency start with pulse, it is a point type HF start. The 17 series torch works well, it a euro stye and accepts all common 17 series parts for the head. The fans run all the time but not too loud, the inface is standard for most all tig machines so setting it up is easy. I don't know if they make a pedal for this welder but might be a good add on, either way the trigger on the torch with up and down slope works well. Its small and compact and would make a good bench or machine to load up to take on-site. It 230V single phase only, you cannot plug into a 115v wall socket, I would assume it would do fine on a generator with a 30amp 230v output. The max amps is 200 and welding 1/4 aluminum is about as thick as it will weld for smaller parts, the power does seem legit as I do have a video of a bung being welded in 1/4 6061. Fit and finish is excellent, I was really surprised how good the arc was, for doing turbo pipes, exhaust and small parts this should work great. AC tig for doing aluminum on a budget is the real benefit to this machine. ***Update, this little tig machine continues to put in the work, compared to some of my other much more expensive tig machines it is super handy to move around the shop for quick tack ups and repairs.
Review: Brand new to this, very early days, but so far so good. - Brand new to TIG welding here, and I'm not any kind of pro welder at all. Self-taught (i.e, poorly-taught)/home-jobber. I have a MIG I picked up a couple of years ago that's served me well for home-tasks and 'hot-metal gluing' stuff together. My welds are not pretty, I have minimal skill, but I can stick stuff together and it holds. I'm not building race-car roll-cages, or other mission critical stuff. We're talking 'stitch up cracked lawnmower deck' or 'build an angle-iron wood-rack' .. the kind of low-risk stuff that's easy enough to just 'do' w/out much of a plan. I wanted a TIG box that could do AC for aluminum simply b/c I think it would be neat to be able to weld aluminum. My MIG welder does DC-TIG and does it well enough from the couple of tries I made with it when I first got the MIG box. But, for anything steel I needed to weld, the MIG-mode has been fine, and is easier IMHO. So, TIG... new ballgame. This welder has a high-freq start, which I can say works great (again, as appears to a novice). My MIG's DC-TIG is 'lift-arc', which requires more skill than I have. I have not stuck the electrode once with this AC/HF-start... it starts the arc a solid 10mm above the work. I have no idea if that's too high, prob is... again.. I'm a novice at this. I just was experimenting with how high/easy it would start an arc. Above about 10mm or so.. it was less reliable... maybe up to 13mm... don't quote me, but to me, it seems plenty high-enough. I've only spent a day at this point just laying down beads on scrap, and my 'beads' are not pretty.. but 'fusion beads', to me, seem fine. There's a lot to adjust for a newbie: rise, peak A, base A, +/- balance, fall, pre and post-flow... pulse mode settings. I worked through adjusting each setting a few different ways just to see if they had any effect and I can say, for me, I noticed differences in each setting. So, these settings are not 'vapor ware'... they all do something. I have the foot pedal as well, and I think this is the way to go. I mean, I know 'pro' TIG setups usually have a pedal, but since this box doesn't come with it, you have to buy it separately. Oddly enough, I got mine months ago to use for my MIG welder as an experiment (partial success)... but now that I have this TIG box, I reconfigured it to work with this new welder as originally intended. So, the pedal definitely makes it nicer to use, imho. The button on the included TIG torch appears to be on/off only. There's no obvious 'rocking' feature that would indicate it controls amperage. This is prob fine for learning, and maybe that makes it easier to learn with... I don't know. I have the pedal, so I'm only ever going to use the pedal. Again, the welder has settings for rise-amps and fall-amps which taper the amps at the start of the weld and at the finish.. this is ostensibly to help pre-heat and prevent cratering. Just repeating what the manual claims... I don't know enough to know this independently... but it sounds logical. The pulse mode is interesting. This will 'pulse' the arc from 1 to upwards of 300 times a second automatically. I won't claim to know why this feature exists, but I see it on a lot of 'better' machines, so I don't think it is a gimmick. I was playing around with it, and set it to 2, and it definitely only does a pulse every 1/2 a sec. I ramped it to 10, definitely way more pulses/sec. Higher than that and it really buzzes them out. I'm guessing the application for this must be on thin metals or something you're trying not to pour a lot of heat into. The gas hose... ugh.. this is by far the weak-point of the machine. It has a nipple for the output and not a B-size inert-gas connection. It comes with a stiff vinyl hose and two hose clamps. My argon bottle has B-size connx, so I had to find a barb-to-B adapter to connect up to one end of the hose. The problem -there- is that the hose is not 1/4" and doesn't work with 1/4" barbs. I imagine it is metric, so maybe its like 8mm... no idea... didn't measure. My hacky work-around for now is I wrapped my 1/4" adapter in a layer or two of good electrical tape. After hose-clamping this vinyl hose on... tests for gas-tightness passed the 'soapy-water' test. I'm going to find out what metric size hose-nipple I need and order one, then make a small pigtail-hose that has a female B-size coupler on one end, and hose-clamp the pigtail to the machine's nipple. Then I can use my regular gas-hose and not this goofy vinyl hose. I may later figure out if I can swap out the gas nipple with a B-size connecter directly to the machine and eliminate this pigtail hack. I don't want to open up the machine yet b/c it is still under whatever warranty it comes with, in addition to the desertcart 30day/whatever return-period. If the pigtail works well enough, that's fine for now. The stinger for stick-welding it comes with is, well... very cheap... as is the ground-clamp. I have a nicer ground clamp from my MIG that fits this TIG box (DINSE connectors). So, the stinger and ground clamp that came with the TIG box are prob never gonna be used. I don't stick-weld, but if I did, the stinger that came with my MIG box is better quality and I would just use that one. So!... don't buy this box b/c you think the components are going to be great. The TIG torch, I think, is fine in my zero-experience opinion. I can say it seems comfortable enough, has a bit of 'swivel' action at the end to help with hose-bind. It is not top-quality stuff, but of the 'accessories' that come in the box, it is the nicest (the others being the ground-clamp and ARC-stinger, which are very 'iffy' looking). The attraction here is the TIG box itself and the fact that it does AC, which at this price point/day-in-time makes it one of the most affordable such boxes if you want to do aluminum TIG. You also get a pulse mode function which may not have all of the options of high-end boxes, but having pulse-mode at all at this price, to me, seems like a bonus. I would've been plenty happy just getting AC mode (with some adjustment on AC balance even). The consumables you get are 'enough' to get going. You can 2 tungstens (red), one is 1/16 and the other looks to be maybe 1/8 or 3/16? You get the correct 'brass' to use either size in the TIG torch. I don't think there's any spares of these items... but again, this is enough to get up and running. You do get a few extra nozzles.. 6's and 8's... I don't recall any other sizes. These are what you'd expect... just ceramic gas nozzles. You can get packs of TIG consumables/nozzels/brass on desertcart, should probably do that. I do not know what 'brand' these consumables are patterned after... the brass is a collet-style, if that helps. I am sure it is going to be patterned after some name-brand, just don't know what that is off-hand myself. I have zero to say about durability as I've only had the box 2 days, and only used it a few hours at this point. If it blows up, I will definitely update this review. Conversely, if I have no trouble with it, I'll also update this review.. it may be some months before either happens.

## Features

- 【FEATURES/BENIFITS】HBT250P TIG welder is an inverter based arc welding power source optimized for AC/DC TIG welding and Stick welding. A true professional's choice with advanced waveforms, 2T/4T Mode and pulse controls, this machine will deliver the arc You need. All of the features You want can be easily customized to Your application and saved in the available memory settings. TIG weld like a champion with the new HBT250P AC/DC machine.
- 【SIMPLICITY WITHOUT COMPROMISE】TIG HBT250P is a portable TIG and stick welding machine that lets hobbyists, makers, small fabricators and craftsmen explore their creativity. It is designed to help expand your welding expertise. As your skills and confidence grow, you can take advantage of the Square Wave TIG additional functionality. No matter your skill level, you won’t be disappointed.
- 【ALL-ROUND CUSTOMIZATION】The Square Wave TIG provides smooth and stable AC TIG welding on aluminum and DC TIG welding on steel, stainless steel and chrome-moly. A user-friendly interface enables the operators to set it, Up to 12+ functions can be configured, each designed to improve welding results and reduce tungsten loss. Users also can easily adjust AC Frequency Control. AC Balance can be adjusted to provide more cleaning action on dirty aluminum or to maximize penetration on thick materials.
- 【ADVANCED FEATURES】Multiple functions can be set: 2T/4T, newbie friendly. Other features, such as Pulse, which provides a drumbeat-like rhythm for filler metal deposition, make you become a Better TIG Welder - faster - Appearance of welds are better when using TIG welders.
- 【BETTER SAFETY SYSTEMS】Our TIG welders are based on VRD, overvoltage, overcurrent, overload, and overheat protections to ensure the safety of our customers. The unique dual fan movement cooling system cools the machine quickly, extending the welding time and ensuring a stable TIG weld and a stunning weld performance.
- 【After-Sale Service】HITBOX provides reliable welding products all over the world(5 years warranty.), and we always focus on the customer. If there is any quality problem, please feel free to contact us. We promise to arrange an immediate replacement or 100% refund.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0BRZT75YM |
| Batteries Included? | No |
| Batteries Required? | No |
| Best Sellers Rank | #284,083 in Automotive ( See Top 100 in Automotive ) #476 in TIG Welding Equipment |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (812) |
| Date First Available | February 7, 2023 |
| Included Components | TIG WELDER |
| Item Weight | 26 pounds |
| Item model number | HBT250P |
| Manufacturer | HITBOX |
| Package Dimensions | 19.29 x 14.65 x 10.83 inches |
| Part Number | HBT250P |
| Power Source | ac_dc |
| Size | HBT250P |
| Style | 6 IN 1 AC/DC TIG |

## Images

![HITBOX 200A AC/DC TIG Welder 6-in-1 with Pulse & Square Wave, HF Start Aluminum TIG, MMA/Stick Welding, 220V IGBT Inverter, Dual Cooling Fan, Digital Display, Foot Pedal Compatible (HBT250P) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71HcEITE3oL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Model** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Can this machine weld aluminum?**
A: Yes, this machine can weld aluminum

**Q: Are any other torches compatable with this machine that are a little more compact?**
A: Any type 17 torch.

**Q: Are the welding leads for this machine dinse 10-25? I want to get a longer assembly**
A: You can remove the ground clamp and splice more cable using a butt connector like i did and cover with heat shrink tubing.

**Q: Hbt250p 220v welder 200: is the foot pedal included? one section states that it is not but the what in the box section says torch and foot pedal.**
A: Unfortunately the pedal is not included.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good Value AC/DC Tig
*by C***Y on December 27, 2024*

For the price of this tig welder you really can't go wrong, it does AC and DC tig along with stick. I did not do any stick welding with it yet. Ran the machine on a few parts and it welded flawlessly. It comes with everything you need for tig welding except a regulator, tungsten and cylinder of argon, it does not come with a stick electrode holder. This welder uses the smaller 25mm dinse twist lock connectors, it has high frequency start with pulse, it is a point type HF start. The 17 series torch works well, it a euro stye and accepts all common 17 series parts for the head. The fans run all the time but not too loud, the inface is standard for most all tig machines so setting it up is easy. I don't know if they make a pedal for this welder but might be a good add on, either way the trigger on the torch with up and down slope works well. Its small and compact and would make a good bench or machine to load up to take on-site. It 230V single phase only, you cannot plug into a 115v wall socket, I would assume it would do fine on a generator with a 30amp 230v output. The max amps is 200 and welding 1/4 aluminum is about as thick as it will weld for smaller parts, the power does seem legit as I do have a video of a bung being welded in 1/4 6061. Fit and finish is excellent, I was really surprised how good the arc was, for doing turbo pipes, exhaust and small parts this should work great. AC tig for doing aluminum on a budget is the real benefit to this machine. ***Update, this little tig machine continues to put in the work, compared to some of my other much more expensive tig machines it is super handy to move around the shop for quick tack ups and repairs.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brand new to this, very early days, but so far so good.
*by A***R on January 29, 2024*

Brand new to TIG welding here, and I'm not any kind of pro welder at all. Self-taught (i.e, poorly-taught)/home-jobber. I have a MIG I picked up a couple of years ago that's served me well for home-tasks and 'hot-metal gluing' stuff together. My welds are not pretty, I have minimal skill, but I can stick stuff together and it holds. I'm not building race-car roll-cages, or other mission critical stuff. We're talking 'stitch up cracked lawnmower deck' or 'build an angle-iron wood-rack' .. the kind of low-risk stuff that's easy enough to just 'do' w/out much of a plan. I wanted a TIG box that could do AC for aluminum simply b/c I think it would be neat to be able to weld aluminum. My MIG welder does DC-TIG and does it well enough from the couple of tries I made with it when I first got the MIG box. But, for anything steel I needed to weld, the MIG-mode has been fine, and is easier IMHO. So, TIG... new ballgame. This welder has a high-freq start, which I can say works great (again, as appears to a novice). My MIG's DC-TIG is 'lift-arc', which requires more skill than I have. I have not stuck the electrode once with this AC/HF-start... it starts the arc a solid 10mm above the work. I have no idea if that's too high, prob is... again.. I'm a novice at this. I just was experimenting with how high/easy it would start an arc. Above about 10mm or so.. it was less reliable... maybe up to 13mm... don't quote me, but to me, it seems plenty high-enough. I've only spent a day at this point just laying down beads on scrap, and my 'beads' are not pretty.. but 'fusion beads', to me, seem fine. There's a lot to adjust for a newbie: rise, peak A, base A, +/- balance, fall, pre and post-flow... pulse mode settings. I worked through adjusting each setting a few different ways just to see if they had any effect and I can say, for me, I noticed differences in each setting. So, these settings are not 'vapor ware'... they all do something. I have the foot pedal as well, and I think this is the way to go. I mean, I know 'pro' TIG setups usually have a pedal, but since this box doesn't come with it, you have to buy it separately. Oddly enough, I got mine months ago to use for my MIG welder as an experiment (partial success)... but now that I have this TIG box, I reconfigured it to work with this new welder as originally intended. So, the pedal definitely makes it nicer to use, imho. The button on the included TIG torch appears to be on/off only. There's no obvious 'rocking' feature that would indicate it controls amperage. This is prob fine for learning, and maybe that makes it easier to learn with... I don't know. I have the pedal, so I'm only ever going to use the pedal. Again, the welder has settings for rise-amps and fall-amps which taper the amps at the start of the weld and at the finish.. this is ostensibly to help pre-heat and prevent cratering. Just repeating what the manual claims... I don't know enough to know this independently... but it sounds logical. The pulse mode is interesting. This will 'pulse' the arc from 1 to upwards of 300 times a second automatically. I won't claim to know why this feature exists, but I see it on a lot of 'better' machines, so I don't think it is a gimmick. I was playing around with it, and set it to 2, and it definitely only does a pulse every 1/2 a sec. I ramped it to 10, definitely way more pulses/sec. Higher than that and it really buzzes them out. I'm guessing the application for this must be on thin metals or something you're trying not to pour a lot of heat into. The gas hose... ugh.. this is by far the weak-point of the machine. It has a nipple for the output and not a B-size inert-gas connection. It comes with a stiff vinyl hose and two hose clamps. My argon bottle has B-size connx, so I had to find a barb-to-B adapter to connect up to one end of the hose. The problem -there- is that the hose is not 1/4" and doesn't work with 1/4" barbs. I imagine it is metric, so maybe its like 8mm... no idea... didn't measure. My hacky work-around for now is I wrapped my 1/4" adapter in a layer or two of good electrical tape. After hose-clamping this vinyl hose on... tests for gas-tightness passed the 'soapy-water' test. I'm going to find out what metric size hose-nipple I need and order one, then make a small pigtail-hose that has a female B-size coupler on one end, and hose-clamp the pigtail to the machine's nipple. Then I can use my regular gas-hose and not this goofy vinyl hose. I may later figure out if I can swap out the gas nipple with a B-size connecter directly to the machine and eliminate this pigtail hack. I don't want to open up the machine yet b/c it is still under whatever warranty it comes with, in addition to the Amazon 30day/whatever return-period. If the pigtail works well enough, that's fine for now. The stinger for stick-welding it comes with is, well... very cheap... as is the ground-clamp. I have a nicer ground clamp from my MIG that fits this TIG box (DINSE connectors). So, the stinger and ground clamp that came with the TIG box are prob never gonna be used. I don't stick-weld, but if I did, the stinger that came with my MIG box is better quality and I would just use that one. So!... don't buy this box b/c you think the components are going to be great. The TIG torch, I think, is fine in my zero-experience opinion. I can say it seems comfortable enough, has a bit of 'swivel' action at the end to help with hose-bind. It is not top-quality stuff, but of the 'accessories' that come in the box, it is the nicest (the others being the ground-clamp and ARC-stinger, which are very 'iffy' looking). The attraction here is the TIG box itself and the fact that it does AC, which at this price point/day-in-time makes it one of the most affordable such boxes if you want to do aluminum TIG. You also get a pulse mode function which may not have all of the options of high-end boxes, but having pulse-mode at all at this price, to me, seems like a bonus. I would've been plenty happy just getting AC mode (with some adjustment on AC balance even). The consumables you get are 'enough' to get going. You can 2 tungstens (red), one is 1/16 and the other looks to be maybe 1/8 or 3/16? You get the correct 'brass' to use either size in the TIG torch. I don't think there's any spares of these items... but again, this is enough to get up and running. You do get a few extra nozzles.. 6's and 8's... I don't recall any other sizes. These are what you'd expect... just ceramic gas nozzles. You can get packs of TIG consumables/nozzels/brass on Amazon, should probably do that. I do not know what 'brand' these consumables are patterned after... the brass is a collet-style, if that helps. I am sure it is going to be patterned after some name-brand, just don't know what that is off-hand myself. I have zero to say about durability as I've only had the box 2 days, and only used it a few hours at this point. If it blows up, I will definitely update this review. Conversely, if I have no trouble with it, I'll also update this review.. it may be some months before either happens.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ TIG200 is NOT AC!
*by R***S on August 28, 2025*

THIS IS NOT I REPEAT NOT AN AC TIG MACHINE!!!!!!! I had thought I hit the jackpot when I was doing my research and everything on the Hitbox TIG200. Everything said that it was ac capable and could TIG weld aluminum. Seeing it was only $120 I jumped on it and was super excited. I have a MiG welder with a spool gun for aluminum but isn’t capable of ac TIG. But the welder performs and functions well. It’s not the welders fault that someone put false and/or misleading information about it. I’m going to keep it regardless.

## Frequently Bought Together

- HITBOX TIG Welder AC/DC with Pulse, 200A Professional Aluminum Welding Machine with Square Wave/Stick/MMA/IGBT, 220V Exquisite All-Round Arc Welder, Offering You Excellent Cost Performance (HBT250P)
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