[TheForge] help! welder advice

[Gladish Family]

My brother-in-law is off to Costa Rica to facilitate a build-your-own
windmill power generator workshop at a community way up in the hills. They
have LOTS of current but it's all 120 vac.
He's on a brutally tight budget and was looking at this, on Harbor Freight:
www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=91110
It claims power features that I'm not familiar with, but I'd hate to be the
one who has to use it to weld 1/4 or 3/8" steel...many passes, I guess. I'm
also concerned that they'll be depending on it (Chicago Electric?!?) in a
remote place.
Anybody have any guesses or info that I can pass on?
I'm also thinking of letting him use my Hobart 135 with a couple spools of
flux core wire, now that I have a real MIG.
Any info, anecdotes or opinions would be most welcome!
Thanks,
Andy Gladish
Guemes Island, WA