Yeswelder DP200 magic smoke out challenge! Can I burn it up?

[@WV591]

thank you for checking the power cable guage. It is strange that all these dual voltage imports ship with 12 or 13. you would think that they would use at least 10. but I guess nobody has had any issues. I just bought a second welder and same thing. i will be doing a current draw on power cable and also checking thte output current on both 110 and 220 to confirm it is within specs. too many of these companies exaggerate the output current.

[@LarryMusgrave]

My commercial mig is 10G. That's on a Thermal Arc / Thermal Dynamics Fabricator 210, a 250A transformer based commercial machine. Now, I would never try to compare these far less expensive, hobby/ home grade machines to something like this beast. I would surmise that the 13G wire in these inverter based 180, 185 and 200 amp imported i got over the last month will draw over what 13G can support. And honestly, not many home or hobby guys are going to go balls out on these machines. I see a lot of small repairs on mower decks, auto body and frame repair and other fairly low power welding jobs. I'm in the higher end of power use I would guess, I do mostly construction repair, trailer frame rebuilds with C channel, bucket repairs and thins if that nature on skid steers, farm tractors, backhoe machines and equipment/ dump trailers. I'll be starting a F550 dump bed repair job here soon, it's a rust belt dump and the bed is coming apart.

[@WV591]

@@LarryMusgrave You are correct Sir. power cable is cost saving on these multi function machines and for what people like me use them for to repair a few things there is no problem .Although I've read somewhere it does effect the output efficiency slighly. not enough to justify replacing the cables and connector at today's prices. I never had any issues with any of these Imports even when used for few hours or cared about what they used. it just struck me odd that after dealing with guage 6 wire and 240 line, I started noticing how thin all other cables around the shop/garage are especially welders that use 220 ;-)

[@LarryMusgrave]

​@@WV591 One cost savings that Yeswelder used, that I find odd... it's that ground clamp. I'm sitting in my shop right now with a $89 Winbegin Mig-140, a $179 BestArc Mig 145, a $220 ArcCaptian Tig 205 Pro Iconnect, and my Thermal Arc..... all have brass jaws on the ground clamp. The supposed $749 retail Yeswelder DP200 has steel jaw inserts.... why?

[@TwiztidPain]

@@LarryMusgrave Id imagine the duty cycle is affected off the gauge of wire along with power factor.

[@WV591]

@@LarryMusgrave they all cut corners on ground clamp right from the start. it's become so normal that nobody even talks about it they just upgrade them if they are at least semi pro or care. I upgraded couple of mine. My only complaint is nobody checking the output current to verify they are true to specification. I know only two channels that do that on tube. I will be doing that in the next few weeks on my new FEMEROL 250A. I'm thinking about doing a video and uploading it. so far, quick tests i did on 220 show it is very close to claimed output it was 238amps . I presume that if they had used 10AWG it would reach closer to 250Amp. I will also check the current draw on power cable at max output just out of ccuriosity.