These tests are not cheap. I Just wanna Thank you for your service doing these tests even though you don't have a big audience yet. I believe that the welding community is huge. Maybe there are millions of welders or Diyers who owns these kind of welders they should have watched your videos.
What they watch are paid testimonials by DIY and prowelder channels saying how great they are or not disclosing a weakness. There is little money made in objective product testing. You will run into hundreds of Yes and Arc Captain vids before his comes up in the TH-cam algorithm.
after your consecutive call outs to Yeswelder, finally they have listened and made an accurate ouput welder. Only time will tell about its longetivity.
I wonder if a software update would resolve some of those issues? I fired mine up with C-25 and 0.023 ESAB easy grind. Right off the bat it wouldn't feed the wire consistently, burn back and fusing to the tip etc. After a fair bit of frustration and an tinkering I decided to wind the wire back onto the spool. That's when I noticed all the wire in the liner was severely kinked. I'm wondering if the new spool of wire was kinked or maybe there's a problem somewhere in the liner. I haven't look any further yet but I suspect it's something mechanical. As far as the kinked wire goes, I've seen plenty of mig machines that would feed somewhat kinked wire no problem.
Yeswelder built this machine able to accept firmware updates. So it's definitely possible that they could release a firmware with updated synergic tuning to smooth out some of the settings. Hopefully, they do. As for the wire kinking in the liner, it could be that the liner is a bit too large to reliably feed 0.023" wire. Many MIG guns have different size liners for different size wire. Still, I've run 0.023" wire in most MIG guns that come with MIG welders, but maybe this liner is a bit larger to accommodate larger wire and that causes issues with 0.023"? Or maybe the drive tension set too tight? Or maybe a bit of both.
Very interesting to see their prices creeping up. Like with all welders I often wonder if they do that just because they can or if the machine actually costs that much to design and build. Honestly at that price I see no benefit in going with them over a more proven machine. Unless they seriously step up the quality it doesn't make sense.
Little steps. Like you said, maybe less spent on making it with all the bells and whistles and just make quality that competes with the old boy's basic machines, the kind with charts. Sad about the .045 only. I would have been nice to try running on thinner aluminum. I bought a everlast 211 bout three yrs ago, they tried to get me to buy the 251 because it had pulse ( well, more money). I knew very little about what it took for pulse to work. I asked if I would have to buy another gas: Yes. I said No, I've only got argon for tig and aluminum mig. About 400 outlay per bottle is tough. Good old stick is the back-up plan. Though the 40A extra and pulse for tig would have been nice on the 251 and everlast has not been big liars on specs. So maybe you can borrow some 90/10 and see if dual pulse lets you run out of position and try the tig functions. Good leads would probably cost $100 more, worth it to me.
I would like to get some 90/10 to see how well pulse would run on steel. But it's another decent expense and another tank to store, so we'll see. It only limits you to 0.045" aluminum wire when pulse is turned on. Once you turn on pulse, it sets the wire size at 0.045" and won't let you change it. With pulse off you can run thinner wire.
These tests are not cheap. I Just wanna Thank you for your service doing these tests even though you don't have a big audience yet. I believe that the welding community is huge. Maybe there are millions of welders or Diyers who owns these kind of welders they should have watched your videos.
What they watch are paid testimonials by DIY and prowelder channels saying how great they are or not disclosing a weakness.
There is little money made in objective product testing. You will run into hundreds of Yes and Arc Captain vids before his comes up in the TH-cam algorithm.
after your consecutive call outs to Yeswelder, finally they have listened and made an accurate ouput welder. Only time will tell about its longetivity.
Longevity, now that's a brand we don't hear much about anymore.
I think Yes ignored him, he kept finding false claims in the other ones.
I wonder if a software update would resolve some of those issues? I fired mine up with C-25 and 0.023 ESAB easy grind. Right off the bat it wouldn't feed the wire consistently, burn back and fusing to the tip etc. After a fair bit of frustration and an tinkering I decided to wind the wire back onto the spool. That's when I noticed all the wire in the liner was severely kinked. I'm wondering if the new spool of wire was kinked or maybe there's a problem somewhere in the liner. I haven't look any further yet but I suspect it's something mechanical. As far as the kinked wire goes, I've seen plenty of mig machines that would feed somewhat kinked wire no problem.
Yeswelder built this machine able to accept firmware updates. So it's definitely possible that they could release a firmware with updated synergic tuning to smooth out some of the settings. Hopefully, they do.
As for the wire kinking in the liner, it could be that the liner is a bit too large to reliably feed 0.023" wire. Many MIG guns have different size liners for different size wire. Still, I've run 0.023" wire in most MIG guns that come with MIG welders, but maybe this liner is a bit larger to accommodate larger wire and that causes issues with 0.023"? Or maybe the drive tension set too tight? Or maybe a bit of both.
Very interesting to see their prices creeping up. Like with all welders I often wonder if they do that just because they can or if the machine actually costs that much to design and build. Honestly at that price I see no benefit in going with them over a more proven machine. Unless they seriously step up the quality it doesn't make sense.
Little steps.
Like you said, maybe less spent on making it with all the bells and whistles and just make quality that competes with the old boy's basic machines, the kind with charts.
Sad about the .045 only. I would have been nice to try running on thinner aluminum.
I bought a everlast 211 bout three yrs ago, they tried to get me to buy the 251 because it had pulse ( well, more money). I knew very little about what it took for pulse to work. I asked if I would have to buy another gas: Yes. I said No, I've only got argon for tig and aluminum mig. About 400 outlay per bottle is tough. Good old stick is the back-up plan. Though the 40A extra and pulse for tig would have been nice on the 251 and everlast has not been big liars on specs.
So maybe you can borrow some 90/10 and see if dual pulse lets
you run out of position and try the tig functions.
Good leads would probably cost $100 more, worth it to me.
Forgot to add, thanks for testing welders.
Is it only programmed for .045? You can use smaller wire reliably with a spool gun.
I would like to get some 90/10 to see how well pulse would run on steel. But it's another decent expense and another tank to store, so we'll see.
It only limits you to 0.045" aluminum wire when pulse is turned on. Once you turn on pulse, it sets the wire size at 0.045" and won't let you change it. With pulse off you can run thinner wire.