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Depends on the power required. I'd have to time it but I'd guess at 10 seconds I'm waiting on the light. 20 seconds overall maybe for our typical wire size and power setting. It just seems like your always waiting for it rather than the other way around. Not becuase it can "only" do 100 welds an hour, but I remember reading instructions or on this forum to get consistent welds you need to make the weld very shortly after the green light comes on so we always wait to push the button till your nearly ready to weld. So if your workflow is not smooth (which mine never is) and you press the button to soon, green light comes on for a bit too long and you've waited to long to make the weld and you get a spark at best, or bad weld at worst.

The ideal setup would be you get to set it on manual or automatic charge. And in either case it would charge up and hold a consistent charge (at your desired setting) each and every time. If auto is selected, then it starts charging right away after your weld and after it disconnects itself interally from the circuit you've just made so you don't get shocked. This way it would likely would be ready by the time you get your next piece grounded and your wire clamped and clipped to a point. In this manner it would nearly always wait on you rather than the other way around. Did that make any sense?