This little welder never ceases to amaze me. I had to do some welding on a gate yesterday. Once I got a feel for it the job went smoothly enough. I did have one problem. At its highest setting it like I was welding with a weaker welder because I had to run it on 100 feet of extension cord. Yes, it's a heavy ten gage cord. Still it felt weak. I was grounded directly to bare metal on the job within inches of the weld. (Painted gate not galvanized. Paint ground off in work area.) It was weak, but it never stopped or had any issues once I got my head back into under powered mode.
I am thinking of picking up a small job site generator. Something a little bigger than my current 2600 watt peak Yamaha generator that will just barely carry a heavy drill and some flood lights. I have used it for welding with a 110V wire feed in the past and it worked, but its right on the edge.
I know a lot of the higher end welders are very specific about "clean power" generators only, but I wonder if this little cheap wire feed has any electronics that would require a top of the line generator to keep from killing it? I have been thinking of something in the 6500 watt range so I have it when I need to run something heavier occasionally.