Color Question

[Mark @ Everlast]

The reason that the switch is on the rear is for several reasons. One it is how we satisfy electrical requirements of the NEC. Also we build essentially the same units for our Euro, Austrailian, African and Eastern markets. Euro regulations prevent the wiring from running through the machine. Safety reasoning I guess, because it has to run back to the transformer.

Paint is RAL 6018.

 

[sandfs]

Many of the SWP units, Surewelds SUREMIGs, Sealeys MIGHTYMIGs all have On/Off switches on front. Unless The UK isn't Europe you can have switches on front, there are just additional costs.

 

[yomax4]

The fact that some machines have the switch in the front and some in the back tells me it's more of a space issue. In the front you have a Display and control board, Pots, Dinse plugs, other buttons and dials. Not a lot of room under the hood. Most of the transformer machines had front switches even though many were imports so I don't know about rules and regs on this. Rear switches started showing up with the inverter revolution. All of my stuff is rear switch and I too hate it. My Pulse Mig unit has a huge rotary switch on the back with a lock out tag out place for a pad lock. I can hardly reach back there and crank it on. Others are a simple rocker. If you have 115v/230v only, I would think they could find a spot in front for a switch. If you have a larger capacity inverter machine like mine that does, 208,230,460 then you seem to need a big ole fat switch and it would almost have to be in the back.