So far I can vouch for their customer service. I accidentally ordered the wrong welder and I contacted them from the website. They called the warehouse to halt the shipment and sent an invoice so I could pay the difference. Then shipped what I intended to order. Excellent customer service.
Great review, nice to see a review done by someone that actually knows how to weld and knows what the parameters of the machine actually do and how they affect the weld. Thinking of sizing down from a Lincoln Powermig 215, however I think I'll hold off for a while yet. The 215 is a known quantity and is in great shape and does not owe me anything. Thanks again for some honest input!
One of the better Vids on a Yeswelder I've seen yet. Practical application and straight forward. Thank you. Would love to get one of these in for testing. Thanx
i kept looking for vids on this machine and kept seeing the welds come out bad but i’m glad i saw this vid because i now know the welds can look great using this machine
Just bought this welder, and now am even more excited to use it after watching your video. Another video of this exact model would be great on the (how to side) with more info on dialing in the mig settings manually thanks. Nice cart btw👍🏼
I’ve had 4 multi mode Synergic welders including a Lincoln MP210 and 3 Chinese, they all performed well in MIG mode but were a disappointment in MMA (stick) mode. None were able to use the variety of rods that the ancient MILLER 250P AC/DC or MILLER ECONOTWIN 150 AC/DC are capable of.
At home I use 4 and looking for another. I have a couple cheapies from harbor freight, a mig and a stick welder. Those were both under 200 dollars and have lasted me 11 years so far. They are 220 machines. I was working at industrial steel making huge structures and they use miller machines. all mig with a stick in the corner and a tig shop for making rails and stairs. I bought a lotus about 18 months ago for its aluminum tig abilities and love that machine. It is also stick and either 110 or 220. It does not do mig. (the foot pedal leaves a lot to be desired and recommend that be changed but the rest is great,) For everything and portability I have a yeswelder 205ds. It is small, light weight and very easy to throw in the truck and go weld on a site with my sine-wave generator. It does well at both 110 and 220 but 220 is better for me. All four have their place and do well. The yeswelder is mig, tig (not aluminum) and stick and i love it. So far I have used it for about 16 months with zero issues. (both my home lincoln AND MILLER dies in less time and cost an arm and a leg to have that circuit board replaced) Hence these 4. All cost less combined than fixing that miller. Anyway, I may just pick this one you are using up and eliminate three of my others. I will keep the lotus until it dies. Great machine.
Thanks for the review, got mine last month and its been running great. I am curious as to your settings you were using during this video, you said the stock setting were junk. Thanks!!!
Nice Job! You may want to get rid of the bungee cord and get a small chain to fasten the bottle! Hope to see you on the trail again. Will you be at EJS again this year?
Yes already got rid of the bungee. It was all I had at the time. As for EJS it’s up in the air at this point. I would really like to go again but we might end up going a bit later in the year.
@@BuiltForDirt if you make it let me know. We will be running sanctioned Gold Spike again. I hope I can finish with the group next time rather than pull someone axle. :) The other days we will be running trails on our own. If you see me driving Olive let me know and say hi!
any updates on the welder? How has it held up over the last 11 or so months? Have you been Able to hit duty cycle on it? How often doesn't shut down On you with the amount of work you put it through? Great video, I have been considering this or the vulcan migmax 250.
I’ve used this machine on quite a few projects and it’s still working just as good as when I received it. I’ve never hit the duty cycle that would take quite a bit to accomplish.
@@BuiltForDirtgreat video! I appreciated your comment regarding the synergic settings, I have the 205ds from yeswelder and had to manually dial it in before it would lay a decent bead. I'm curious though, how is your 250pro is doing another year later? Debating buying one as a companion to the 205 I have, just so I can leave one dedicated to aluminum with their spool gun...
The Euro fitting that connects the electrode cable to the welder really needs a support out front. I used a small muffler clamp and a 3” wide 1/8” strap to brace the end of the Euro mount to the the welder with 4 large pop rivets on the floor of the wirefeed chamber.
Thanks for the review - found your video when looking for a review on this welder. Getting ready for a Jeep YJ build and this is the welder I'm going to get - and your review helped with that decision. You mentioned about a how to weld video and I would be very interested in that if you were thinking of doing a video like that....also subscribed...thanks
I just bought one for myself while waiting on the new ct2050 firstest but I'm noticing I'm having g a horrible burn back problem while using Flux core or standard mig wire both .35. From yeswelder. Getting the wire stuck to my tip 90% of the time and even the outer shroud of tip. Seems ro get stuck to material a lot. Compared to my old Hobart 130XL. I'm working in tge synergy mode. And have tried pushing the arl/ voltage wire speed all the way to 5. And still sticks horribly no matter how low I turn it down to
Just wondering what you meant by running vertical? When I run vertical I go up you filmed you welding and looked like you ran it downhill. that's running downhill and not really a vertical weld just the coupons where standing vertically try running vertical up
Vertical meaning up or down. Uphill is usually stronger than downhill and crucial for anything that needs to be strong but some times downhill is used in production welding for things that don’t need to be as strong and it can be faster.
@@BuiltForDirt I'd love to see that video when you get the spool gun. I was wondering about parts and services on these machines as well. Hopefully they have some longevity to them and won't need parts other than consumables. You did a fantastic job on the cart I'm needing one for my Miller Syncrowave 250. The guy where we bought metal from for years closed his shop to the public and only does contract work now if he hasn't got too sick to work. Where do you guys get your metal? Breathing metal dust his entire life has about got the best of him. I almost got a sinus infection while standing by one time watching has he turned some angles on a metal piece, did some welding and ran a flap disk over it for my dump truck interior. I had the sinus infection but went and flushed all that dust out of my nose with hot water and it went away as quickly as it came.
Still extremely happy with it. Used it last week to build some shelf brackets and it ran great. I used a be biased towards Miller but I would not hesitate to purchase this machine and put the extra saving into another machine or something else. Also used the YesWelder TIG this week to weld some stainless on a side job and that ran well too.
Haven’t tried it on 220 welds really good on 1/8 little hot tho so I gotta play with the heat more but it’s kicking my butt rn because u can’t use manual wire speed so u gotta play with it to find a good setting
Its a good machine but it does not make 250Amps. It makes 210 on Aluminum synergy mode only. Then on MIG steel could only get 175 to 180 not matter if in synergy or manual mode. On stick welding it was limited to 193. I mean for a home hobbiest it welds great ans is probably all you need. But 250 Amps is aspirational from my testing. Its the same machine as the Tooliom TL250. I had one right next to and did the same tests.. It behaves exactly the same way.
Wouldn't use gas if you gave me gas free & I weld all day every day for a living. Start by running thinner flux-core wire - maybe 0.8mm or 0.9mm - get good at running that. Then start running 1mm flux core wire. If you do thin stuff like bodywork & try starting with 1mm flux core, it will do your head in - you will burn all the holes. Start with thinner wire. If you do "normal" stuff like pipe, tube, box iron etc etc,run 1mm from day one. It's stick welding on a roll with advantages - you can pulse weld, run tacks, run short interlocking beads & generally do waay more than rods will allow. Welding is weird - depending on your own skills, you may love or hate a particular machine - there are machines I hated as a beginner that I now love because they can run so hot - exactly what I disliked when I started welding. Hot machines blew holes when I was raw - it was me, not them. Now, I look for the heat. I used look for the cool.
Estoy pensando en comprarla por que en mi pais una maquina asi costaria unos 2.5k y esta traerla a mi pais me costaria unos 750$ dolares saludos desde ecuador. Gracias fue de mucha ayuda
BEWARE: YesWelder will not service or support anything not purchased through their official YesWelder stores. If you need a part and don't have an approved purchase invoice, they will not support it. No parts are available on their website. THESE ARE DISPOSABLE UNITS.
At a price under $300 for a 230v mig with tig and aluminum capability, disposable is fine. If you can repair it with over the counter parts it's easier to buy a new one and keep the old one around for parts. We're in a disposable world. Not saying I agree with it, but I understand it.
Rebranded junk! Lookup Keygree welders. Can be had for 150-200 all day online. This one is a rebranded Keygree 250 as far as I can see. I have a error 1 code on display. Units only been used for 30 min since ai bought it...They said out of warranty nothing they can do.. which I get.. however they also would not allow me to talk to support direct, only a call center. They also blocked my email when I tried to ask them about what part needs replacing or what error code meant... Buyer beware. Hope my incident was a fluke. Really liked the welder when it worked but feeling a bit hung out to dry.
@@BuiltForDirt I thought it worked great and glad it's holding up... Just want people to be aware if something fails you pretty much have to buy a new one. Internals on mine look perfect. They won't even tell me what the error code means so I can try and troubleshoot for myself.. now it's a paperweight...
Update.. after 2 weeks and an email a day the last two emails were a finger pointing at a connector to check... When I asked them what to check with a meter or am I just verifying it was plugged in they replied "we have reviewed the video you sent us again and it's broken and can't be repaired, sorry.". Basically they just want to string you along until you get tired and give up. So now I have a paperweight.
@@jonrnas mine just did the same thing, but I bought it 30 days ago. I'll be welding the piss out of it soon and if it does it again, I'll demand a refund.. error 1 means over current protection. I had only welded 5 minutes at 190 amps. thinking of doing a teardown of the old one and posting a video..
@@fo4imtippin Sorry to hear that man... So one thing I tried (which may have done nothing, but what did I have to lose) was add a washer to try and improve the ground connection internally to the circuit board. There is an insulator card and a lot of painted surfaces there. I know the screw probably is supposed to ground everything but there seemed to be soldered grounding points on the surface of the board that should be touching metal and they really weren't. Anyways added a small washer between circuit board and insulation card and resecured. Jiggled the wires and it's working again. Works well, but now I'm still gonna always have the worry this will let me down in the middle of a project and I'll be stuck again. Time will tell. This last incident I've probably wasted 12 hours on researching new welders, trying to learn to braze, and email/calls to Yeswelder. Before your warranty expires I'd def put it through it's paces... I think the duty cycles they claim are likely very overinflated. The commission for these affiliate reviews and links is 10% for you/10% for the affiliate, and likely an additional 15% off using another code like Yesfam15. That's 25% off and they still have their profit margin. That should tell you the unit price they pay for these. Looked into these welders and they can be ordered from Keygree with custom logos and unit cost for 100 looks to be 150 bucks.
What kind of welder are you using or are you considering getting into welding/fabricating?
No mention of the consumables? Does it use tips and nozzles from other brands? Or are the proprietary?
So far I can vouch for their customer service. I accidentally ordered the wrong welder and I contacted them from the website. They called the warehouse to halt the shipment and sent an invoice so I could pay the difference. Then shipped what I intended to order.
Excellent customer service.
That’s nice to know! Thanks for sharing.
Great review, nice to see a review done by someone that actually knows how to weld and knows what the parameters of the machine actually do and how they affect the weld.
Thinking of sizing down from a Lincoln Powermig 215, however I think I'll hold off for a while yet. The 215 is a known quantity and is in great shape and does not owe me anything.
Thanks again for some honest input!
One of the better Vids on a Yeswelder I've seen yet. Practical application and straight forward. Thank you. Would love to get one of these in for testing. Thanx
Happy to help!
i kept looking for vids on this machine and kept seeing the welds come out bad but i’m glad i saw this vid because i now know the welds can look great using this machine
Thanks for watching!
Just bought this welder, and now am even more excited to use it after watching your video. Another video of this exact model would be great on the (how to side) with more info on dialing in the mig settings manually thanks. Nice cart btw👍🏼
i'm about to get it. How is it ? do you recommend it ?
You dial the settings in by opening the door and seeing what are the best settings for the thickness of metal you're using.
Best review I’ve seen for this machine yet. Making a cart for it was a great display of how it works.👍
Thanks!
I’ve had 4 multi mode Synergic welders including a Lincoln MP210 and 3 Chinese, they all performed well in MIG mode but were a disappointment in MMA (stick) mode. None were able to use the variety of rods that the ancient MILLER 250P AC/DC or MILLER ECONOTWIN 150 AC/DC are capable of.
At home I use 4 and looking for another. I have a couple cheapies from harbor freight, a mig and a stick welder. Those were both under 200 dollars and have lasted me 11 years so far. They are 220 machines.
I was working at industrial steel making huge structures and they use miller machines. all mig with a stick in the corner and a tig shop for making rails and stairs.
I bought a lotus about 18 months ago for its aluminum tig abilities and love that machine. It is also stick and either 110 or 220. It does not do mig. (the foot pedal leaves a lot to be desired and recommend that be changed but the rest is great,)
For everything and portability I have a yeswelder 205ds. It is small, light weight and very easy to throw in the truck and go weld on a site with my sine-wave generator. It does well at both 110 and 220 but 220 is better for me.
All four have their place and do well. The yeswelder is mig, tig (not aluminum) and stick and i love it. So far I have used it for about 16 months with zero issues. (both my home lincoln AND MILLER dies in less time and cost an arm and a leg to have that circuit board replaced) Hence these 4. All cost less combined than fixing that miller.
Anyway, I may just pick this one you are using up and eliminate three of my others. I will keep the lotus until it dies. Great machine.
Thanks for the review, got mine last month and its been running great. I am curious as to your settings you were using during this video, you said the stock setting were junk. Thanks!!!
Nice Job! You may want to get rid of the bungee cord and get a small chain to fasten the bottle! Hope to see you on the trail again. Will you be at EJS again this year?
Yes already got rid of the bungee. It was all I had at the time.
As for EJS it’s up in the air at this point. I would really like to go again but we might end up going a bit later in the year.
@@BuiltForDirt if you make it let me know. We will be running sanctioned Gold Spike again. I hope I can finish with the group next time rather than pull someone axle. :) The other days we will be running trails on our own. If you see me driving Olive let me know and say hi!
Great Review. I have a Miller 251 mig, I was thinking of buying the Yeswelder Mig pro 250 and setting it up for Aluminum only. Thanks
Glad I was able to help!
any updates on the welder? How has it held up over the last 11 or so months? Have you been Able to hit duty cycle on it? How often doesn't shut down On you with the amount of work you put it through? Great video, I have been considering this or the vulcan migmax 250.
I’ve used this machine on quite a few projects and it’s still working just as good as when I received it.
I’ve never hit the duty cycle that would take quite a bit to accomplish.
@@BuiltForDirtgreat video! I appreciated your comment regarding the synergic settings, I have the 205ds from yeswelder and had to manually dial it in before it would lay a decent bead. I'm curious though, how is your 250pro is doing another year later? Debating buying one as a companion to the 205 I have, just so I can leave one dedicated to aluminum with their spool gun...
@troyschonke6304 Still running just as good as when I got it. Very happy with it
Please do another video with welder settings~~~ Thanks Bob
Sure thing. Give me some time to get around to it. I’m working on quite a few projects at the moment.
@@BuiltForDirt~~~~thanks a bunch
The Euro fitting that connects the electrode cable to the welder really needs a support out front. I used a small muffler clamp and a 3” wide 1/8” strap to brace the end of the Euro mount to the the welder with 4 large pop rivets on the floor of the wirefeed chamber.
Thanks for the review - found your video when looking for a review on this welder. Getting ready for a Jeep YJ build and this is the welder I'm going to get - and your review helped with that decision. You mentioned about a how to weld video and I would be very interested in that if you were thinking of doing a video like that....also subscribed...thanks
Great review. Did you run it on 50amp breaker with 6-3 or 10-3
I think it’s a 40 amp breaker not sure the size of wire
Awesome. Can i use laundry room dryer 220v (40amp i think) and long extension to power wheel in my garage.
I’m pretty sure a 40 amp would be good to go. The back of the machine says the max it will pull is 34 amps
Yes! I have one on the way!✨🎇🎆
Nice!
Is it better than the new 205ds? Can you manually control wire speed and voltage like that one
I can’t compare to the 205ds as I don’t have it but yes manual controls this is a great little machine
Have you try using 0.45 wire on it?
No I only used .035
I just bought one for myself while waiting on the new ct2050 firstest but I'm noticing I'm having g a horrible burn back problem while using Flux core or standard mig wire both .35. From yeswelder. Getting the wire stuck to my tip 90% of the time and even the outer shroud of tip. Seems ro get stuck to material a lot. Compared to my old Hobart 130XL.
I'm working in tge synergy mode. And have tried pushing the arl/ voltage wire speed all the way to 5. And still sticks horribly no matter how low I turn it down to
Just wondering what you meant by running vertical? When I run vertical I go up you filmed you welding and looked like you ran it downhill. that's running downhill and not really a vertical weld just the coupons where standing vertically try running vertical up
Vertical meaning up or down. Uphill is usually stronger than downhill and crucial for anything that needs to be strong but some times downhill is used in production welding for things that don’t need to be as strong and it can be faster.
Push the weld handle into the welder and tighten the plastic nut, should stop the mig cord wiggle.
Do you plan to get the spool gun for this welder?
Eventually yes.
@@BuiltForDirt I'd love to see that video when you get the spool gun. I was wondering about parts and services on these machines as well. Hopefully they have some longevity to them and won't need parts other than consumables.
You did a fantastic job on the cart I'm needing one for my Miller Syncrowave 250. The guy where we bought metal from for years closed his shop to the public and only does contract work now if he hasn't got too sick to work.
Where do you guys get your metal?
Breathing metal dust his entire life has about got the best of him.
I almost got a sinus infection while standing by one time watching has he turned some angles on a metal piece, did some welding and ran a flap disk over it for my dump truck interior.
I had the sinus infection but went and flushed all that dust out of my nose with hot water and it went away as quickly as it came.
Dimes huh, that looks like what you'd find if you went digging at an indian reservation. Good review
Is that a flywheel mechanical press brake?
Yes!
@@BuiltForDirt locked a few of them up back in the day! Nothing like forgetting to raise the depth. Pain in butt to get undone.
what's the one year review looking on it?
Still extremely happy with it. Used it last week to build some shelf brackets and it ran great. I used a be biased towards Miller but I would not hesitate to purchase this machine and put the extra saving into another machine or something else. Also used the YesWelder TIG this week to weld some stainless on a side job and that ran well too.
Did you use this when you Trussed the axle on your jeep?
No I didn’t have this machine at the time. I’ve used it more on the Suzuki samurai I’m rebuilding.
@@BuiltForDirt Would you Recomend it though for that? Looking at trussing my front axle and also using it to weld in my rear Hydro Bump Stops..
100% it’s a great machine and I will continue to use it on any projects I need going forward. Definitely will handle what you want to do
@@BuiltForDirt awesome!! Thank you sir. Appreciate the response. You’ve got some great content!
Would be interested in a follow-up review
I might make a full video on that but I’m still using it and still happy with its performance
Look garas repairs and installation you are the best share this video ❤️❤️
have you welded aluminum with this yet?
Still haven't unfortunately,
“Pretty bad in automatic”
Running hot?
Running cold?
Wire feed too fast?
Wire feed to slow?
they used to be budget frieendly and resonably priced when thery started out but not anymore.
What wire brand are you using?
I’m not sure what brand but is is ER70S6
I like the 205 better I made mine weld aluminum too and it’s 110 and 220
The dual voltage is definitely nice to have! How does it handle aluminum?
@@BuiltForDirt I’ve converted mine to do Aluminium it does good on thicker trying to figure out thinner
Haven’t tried it on 220 welds really good on 1/8 little hot tho so I gotta play with the heat more but it’s kicking my butt rn because u can’t use manual wire speed so u gotta play with it to find a good setting
@@gagemartin4902 would like to know how you did that please? can you contact me? thanks
The description on the yeswelder website says it's 110/220 dual voltage? Is this not the case?
Its a good machine but it does not make 250Amps. It makes 210 on Aluminum synergy mode only. Then on MIG steel could only get 175 to 180 not matter if in synergy or manual mode. On stick welding it was limited to 193. I mean for a home hobbiest it welds great ans is probably all you need. But 250 Amps is aspirational from my testing. Its the same machine as the Tooliom TL250. I had one right next to and did the same tests.. It behaves exactly the same way.
Compared to the yeswelder 205ds ?
I haven’t used that machine sorry so I can’t comment on a comparison between the two.
Nice bro and God bless you
Try with flux-cored wire !
Wouldn't use gas if you gave me gas free & I weld all day every day for a living. Start by running thinner flux-core wire - maybe 0.8mm or 0.9mm - get good at running that. Then start running 1mm flux core wire. If you do thin stuff like bodywork & try starting with 1mm flux core, it will do your head in - you will burn all the holes. Start with thinner wire.
If you do "normal" stuff like pipe, tube, box iron etc etc,run 1mm from day one. It's stick welding on a roll with advantages - you can pulse weld, run tacks, run short interlocking beads & generally do waay more than rods will allow.
Welding is weird - depending on your own skills, you may love or hate a particular machine - there are machines I hated as a beginner that I now love because they can run so hot - exactly what I disliked when I started welding. Hot machines blew holes when I was raw - it was me, not them. Now, I look for the heat. I used look for the cool.
Estoy pensando en comprarla por que en mi pais una maquina asi costaria unos 2.5k y esta traerla a mi pais me costaria unos 750$ dolares saludos desde ecuador. Gracias fue de mucha ayuda
BEWARE: YesWelder will not service or support anything not purchased through their official YesWelder stores. If you need a part and don't have an approved purchase invoice, they will not support it. No parts are available on their website. THESE ARE DISPOSABLE UNITS.
At a price under $300 for a 230v mig with tig and aluminum capability, disposable is fine. If you can repair it with over the counter parts it's easier to buy a new one and keep the old one around for parts. We're in a disposable world. Not saying I agree with it, but I understand it.
I’ve got sent a free one by them lol there support is awesome
Lmao stacking dimes is a tig welding reference. You don’t stack dimes mig welding.
Yeah if only I knew what I was talking about… 😂
I really hate to buy anything form China.
Can't really avoid it these days
Rebranded junk! Lookup Keygree welders. Can be had for 150-200 all day online. This one is a rebranded Keygree 250 as far as I can see. I have a error 1 code on display. Units only been used for 30 min since ai bought it...They said out of warranty nothing they can do.. which I get.. however they also would not allow me to talk to support direct, only a call center. They also blocked my email when I tried to ask them about what part needs replacing or what error code meant... Buyer beware. Hope my incident was a fluke. Really liked the welder when it worked but feeling a bit hung out to dry.
Sorry to hear that. Mine has been holding up for months of use now with no issues.
@@BuiltForDirt I thought it worked great and glad it's holding up... Just want people to be aware if something fails you pretty much have to buy a new one. Internals on mine look perfect. They won't even tell me what the error code means so I can try and troubleshoot for myself.. now it's a paperweight...
Update.. after 2 weeks and an email a day the last two emails were a finger pointing at a connector to check... When I asked them what to check with a meter or am I just verifying it was plugged in they replied "we have reviewed the video you sent us again and it's broken and can't be repaired, sorry.". Basically they just want to string you along until you get tired and give up. So now I have a paperweight.
@@jonrnas mine just did the same thing, but I bought it 30 days ago. I'll be welding the piss out of it soon and if it does it again, I'll demand a refund.. error 1 means over current protection. I had only welded 5 minutes at 190 amps. thinking of doing a teardown of the old one and posting a video..
@@fo4imtippin Sorry to hear that man... So one thing I tried (which may have done nothing, but what did I have to lose) was add a washer to try and improve the ground connection internally to the circuit board. There is an insulator card and a lot of painted surfaces there. I know the screw probably is supposed to ground everything but there seemed to be soldered grounding points on the surface of the board that should be touching metal and they really weren't. Anyways added a small washer between circuit board and insulation card and resecured. Jiggled the wires and it's working again. Works well, but now I'm still gonna always have the worry this will let me down in the middle of a project and I'll be stuck again. Time will tell. This last incident I've probably wasted 12 hours on researching new welders, trying to learn to braze, and email/calls to Yeswelder.
Before your warranty expires I'd def put it through it's paces... I think the duty cycles they claim are likely very overinflated. The commission for these affiliate reviews and links is 10% for you/10% for the affiliate, and likely an additional 15% off using another code like Yesfam15. That's 25% off and they still have their profit margin. That should tell you the unit price they pay for these. Looked into these welders and they can be ordered from Keygree with custom logos and unit cost for 100 looks to be 150 bucks.
This welder sucks , stop promoting it , you cant do over head welds you can adjust the wire speed even though it has a nob to do so
This welder has been great for me with no issues…