YESWELDER MIG-250 PRO Aluminum MIG Welder, 250Amp 220V, Gas MIG Gasless Flux Core Welding Machine MIG/Lift TIG/Stick 4 in 1 Welder, Spool Gun Compatible

I’ve been putting together a metal building with this welder. Started off welding these columns I had. Half inch thick to half inch thick base plates. Put a bevel on them cranked Welder up to 26 1/2 V. Using flex core because I’m outside in a windy condition didn’t have any problems. Have been using it for about three months now ran about 25 pounds of wire through it. All of a sudden the wire feed quit. Went through all the troubleshooting no help. I called customer service. They gave me some other ideas. Still no wire feed. They asked for some videos which I sent. They determined something faulty went wrong and said they were gonna send me a new one. Keep the old one. Took about three or four days to get the situation handled. I’m gonna take the old one apart when I get a chance and see if I can figure out what happened to the wire feed. I mean, it just quit in the middle of a weld. If I can’t fix it at least I got extra parts for the new welder or if I can’t fix it I got an extra back up Welder. I’ll give an update on the original Welder when I get a chance. Other than that, the welder worked great I’ve been just using it in the manual mode because the automatic setting mode runs a little bit hot. I wouldn’t call myself a professional welder, but for the last 50 years, I have built numerous projects with stick and mig welders. Mainly using Lincoln products. This Welder was really easy to set up. The only bad thing I could say is the welding clamp was one of them cheap ones, but they all come with the same thing. I bought a heavy duty brass one. Also the power cord it comes out of is only a 12 gauge cord. I’m running a 50 amp breaker with 6 AWG SOOW extension cord that I got from prime weld which by the way is a hell of an extension cord. Anyway, the cord comes out of the welder gets a little bit warm if I’m welding a lot of really thick stuff. I got an 8 awg cord that I’m going to a fit to the new Welder. I hope it doesn’t void the warranty. Other than that, this Welder does everything that I have asked for. At the time I bought it it had $120 discount coupon with it so I only paid about $450. I also bought their plasma cutter 65. When I took it out of the box, I tested it on a piece of scrap three three-quarter inch steel. It was a messy cut, but it cut it. Cutting half inch is pretty clean. It easily cuts 3/8 pretty fast. Now I was using a 220 the whole time. I had to go cut some steel for a friend one day and we only had a 110 generator so I will say using the 110 does work but on using the 220 it works a lot better. But back to the 250 Pro I really like this Welder and if I had to buy another one, I would. Especially since the warranty and customer service was so great. I mean for the price I paid if I weld with it every day with this thing and burned it up within a year warranty I guess they would’ve just sent me another one. So if you’re just hobby Welder or a small shop, Welder, I would definitely recommend this Welder. I mean if you go buy a Miller, you’re gonna spend 2000+ dollars.

So far the yeswelder 250p mig welder has been great. However I had one hiccup first one didn’t work out the box so took a week to return and get credit towards the one I got now. I will say this now that I don’t care how expensive or cheap anything is from any brand you can and will get a bad egg period sadly which sometimes leaves such a bad taste and experience for some people they end up with epic horrible stories. I just was smart and lucky returned mine same day I got it since it failed out of the box and sent back for credit. But if I did go through customer support from yeswelder for it I don’t know what would have happened. With that part out of the way moving on. Next from the first unit I did learn real quick the stock mig gun is meh at best. I have a cheap harbor freight special 90 amp flux core with only 6’ gun and thought 10’ would impress me but it didn’t either plus it felt cheap. But upon getting my credit the welder went on sale even more from the 100 to 160 or 140 off. So I threw down a bit more and bought yeswelders tweco #2 mig gun for some esab machine since it was 15’ and euro connector which is soso hard to find guns for just have to look and have patience. But ya my biggest issue is I barely understand fcaw and I have yet to do gmaw (flux core and mig welding types) I just use it for flux core so far and the settings are my big issue not because this machine is hard to use if anything this is very user friendly it’s I know CC welding which is amperage based settings for control. CV which is fcaw and gmaw welding type run off voltage and wire feed speed for resistance. Not sure if the amperage ever changes with those but it does have a handy chart that gives you a basic idea of what amps said settings are and those settings it lists are good starting point for said thickness/metal type and welding type. Quality is solid so far. I have used it for 1/4” and 1/8” to 1/4” steel and I haven’t really had any issues. Just learning the settings and it falling into place with all the amp based settings I know and use so far. I only have run .030 wire so everything I do is manually adjusted. Can’t say anything about it’s auto settings mode. I like my control. Oh and it’s speed is metric only no inch or feet per min setting swap I can find or read about. So be prepared for that if you read online or watch vids in the US. Easy way I go with is whatever inches per min they say I divide it by 39.25 which I think is about perfect. I’d most definitely get the yeswelder tweco #2 15’ euro esab gun. It was like 115/116 considering I’ve always seen this welder on sale for 100+ off I’d spend the extra and grab it. Really nice welding gun and the 5’ extra is nice. At least you can set the welder in the middle of a car or truck and go feont to back

Alright so this is gonna be a very honest reveiw, i am a welder, i do this for a living, i bought the mct-520 from YESWELDER, it didnt have enough power to push .030 e71t wire without stuttering, it just couldnt do it efficiently, i do stick, fluxcore, and tig both at work and home. Now i sent my mct-520 back and got this one because of the higher amperage duty cycle, figured maybe it could handle it better, i have a stick and tig welder at work but wanted a flux core for pipe repair and thin stuff thats extremely dirty, i used the same wire, the same mb24kd mig gun on both, and this one ran amazing, its super smooth, very powerful, better than the esab rogue i have at work, which is saying something, i use it for all 3 processes, now for the fluxcore im running hobart e71t-11 .030" wire, and this thing hasnt bird nested on me even once, its smooth, its consistent, i used it just yesterday welding rails on a mezenine for about 8 hours worth of welding, i also built a 3 ton hoist with this thing and it was good. I run mine on 220, i dont use 110 even at home, i have a 220 outlet i hooked up for it, itll run stick like a champ too, i mean honestly i can run a 1/8" 7016 rod as low as 70 amps, i ran some 5/32" e308l16 rods the other day bridging a 2 inch wide hole in a machine plate at around 70 amps and it did it very well. So i am extremely pleased with the output quality of this machine, and the build quality is very nice too, the only thing i dont like is the euro style connector for the mig gun, its not bad, but its not nearly as durable as the tweco style american mig connectors, so it can bend easily if hit, but besides that, the machine itself is really well built, i work in a concrete plant for quickrete by the way im a fabricator, so this thing is used in an extremely dusty dirty harsh environment and its holding up well.

Great welder!!! Have had it over a year now and it does everything as advertised. However the trigger switch has had to be taken apart and cleaned a couple of times which is kind of hard to do. It is a pretty cheap switch. But other than that it welds really nice and the duty cycle has been more than what I need and it is 100% duty cycle at 193 amps which can do most of the welding I need. all in all it is a great welder and has never let me down

I'm new to mig welding, but i had a need to do some sheet metal work, and some heavier work on a jeep project. I have been doing some stick welding using a Lincon ac/dc welder with some decent success before this. Using C25 and this welder, I started off doing some 22 gauge mild steel to get a feel for the machine. After some tinkering and some YouTube videos on this welder (mig 250 pro), i got a feel for the settings and gas flow. The chart that comes with this welder only goes down to 20ga, but i used 22ga for my tests. Overall, it went well, and I had some pretty decent looking seams. Then I started on some 1/4in mild steel plate. Things started going well, so I kept at it. It almost seemed as if the machine got hot, the welds got inconsistent. Then another thing that bugged me started getting my attention, the welding leads. Especially the ground lead. The weight isn't right, and it won't lay on the ground like solid copper does. Looking at the strands it was clad, aluminum strands coated in a copper-colored substance. The ends that plug into the machine appear to be a nice solid brass, and you can reuse them. So, I went down to the local welder supply store and picked up a 2ga lead to replace the ground cable with. Things got much better afterwards. So I opted to attempt a removal of the case cover to see what else I can upgrade. Inside there are two leads that go to the board to the front of the unit, and another that has a plug in the front that's used to switch the polarity. I couldn't get the top handle off; it looks like they glued a bolt cover there. So I replaced what I could, the lead that's used to switch polarity. Good enough, I was getting much better with the welder and things are much more consistent since doing the wiring upgrades. Next while welding in some gussets and sleeving my front axle, I ended up burring the gas cup and one the only .035 tip it came with. I'm stuck, it's nearly Christmas and I want to install the suspension this weekend, so I went to tractor supply to see what they had. I found the tips are metric, and Hobart has a tip and a gas cup that have the same basic length, but they are noticeable beefier! I got home and found the tips and the gas cup is a perfect match!! Back to work, and either I'm getting much better, or it's now easier to control?! Anyways, good overall welder. Aluminum leads are silly, but it got the price down enough in order to get me to buy it... lol Future mod will be to upgrade the rest of the wiring, but the ground lead seemed to be the easiest thing to upgrade, and it made the biggest difference... And Hobart has some compatible consumables!! (They also had a set that wasn't compatible, so it's best to look at them side by side) Update: Added Compatible Hobart consumables. Hobart Nozzle: PN #770203 Hobart Tips: PN: #770181 Update 2/12/2024 I have continued to use this welder with good success. I finally got the handle off so I could replace the remaining aluminum leads. Using a plastic welder, I sliced through one end of the handle/bolt cover caps, it looks like it's just snapped on there. Once I had it sliced open, I had little difficulty getting enough leverage to pop it off, so I think a screwdriver would have done it. Once I had the cover off, I was able to easily upgrade the remaining leads that go to the board with some actual solid copper ones. I haven't used it on thicker material since upgrading 100% of the leads, but I have been doing some thinner sheet metal. The manual showing settings vs metal thickness only goes down to 20gauge, but I needed to do some 22gauge to fix some rust holes on my Jeep project. Testing with some scrap I had some good success using thinner wire, but it's still a little too powerful for something that thin. Just using some .035 wire that was already loaded I had some decent success, just doing quick taps and slowly building it up, then grinding off the excess when done. I'll play with this later, but it got the job done in the end, my main use for this is with 1/4in steel anyways. I also have the tig setup for this welder and some 100% argon, I was a bit disappointed to find out that this machine does not support a foot pedal, it's on or off like a stick welder. If I had the option for a foot pedal, I would have tried thin sheet metal using that instead, but oh well. Later down the road I'll probably pick up their dedicated tig welder. I also see that others complain about wire feeding, I haven't had any issues. However, there is a switch just above the wire spool to disable the wire feed when using a spool gun. The machine came with this set for spool gun, if left in that position I can see that causing some confusion for those that didn't read the manual or watch YouTube vids on this machine.