Theft of our ideas and inventions

Through many years of inventing and manufacturing unique generic and innovative welding machinery controls we have been constantly faced with the decision whether to patent certain products or simply rely on our reputation for support, quality and durability to insure ongoing and future sales and promotion of our products.  All of our remote amperage controls are patented while many other products are not.  Why?  There are three basic reasons:

1. It is a very narrow market.  We look at thousands in the industrial welding market as compared to millions for general consumer goods.
    
2. The cost of a patent and the following maintenance fees for 20 years generally cannot be recovered within the first 5 to 10 years.  We first have to develop the product and then develop the market.  No market existed for any of our generic products or inventions prior to the introduction into the market.
    
3. In addition to the cost of the patent and maintenance fees, we are fully aware that unscrupulous individuals and companies will steal our basic designs once we develop the market and that the cost of taking them to court would completely wipe out any profits we would generate from the manufacturing and sale of those products.

Our only protection for these unpatented products is to offer the best professional quality and technical support on the market.  When you purchase from us you are purchasing from a company with 30 years experience in advanced electrical and electronic welding machine maintenance and repair.  When you call for assistance you will be talking to the individual who actually invented every product sold.

Look at the circuit boards below.  We invented these.  We redesigned the new Lincoln idler board (that had 48 electronic components on it) to a much more reliable and simple board with only 5 components on it.  Furthermore, we reduced the reed switch coil from some over-engineered monster to a very small 18 gauge coil with a micro reed switch.

Any time you see an idler board that even looks like ours, it is one of our stolen ideas and the company (or individual) that stole it does not have the moral values (or scruples) to develop their own design.  If they will steal from us, they will steal from you and certainly will have no qualms in giving you inferior service, products or sales support.  We know of over 9 companies/individuals who are currently selling our ideas as their own.

All products we sell are of our own invention and we do not sell any product that we have not designed.