Sonny I know the feeling I've got a f350 diesel too...lol...but never owned a half ton....I've not headed into a project yet but done some small repairs here and there learning the machine its really nice. Just got some tungsten in the mail day ago or so...need to pickup my argon bottle some time for the tig portion. As it seams right now is you can leave all functions hooked up just chose buy pushing a button. But this runs very smooth. It can run 110volt too but it it derated but not bad