I didn't do a full review/test of this welder, but I did do a few comparisons with it against the Yeswelder MP200. This Hitbox doesn't plasma cut and there are some quirks with the settings, but I thought it ran better than the Yeswelder, had more output overall and the output more closely matched the settings. I liked it better and it was a fraction of the price of the MP200. I have no idea how well it will hold up over time or what the customer support/warranty experience would be if it ever fails, but just in terms of performance out of the box, I liked it better than the Yeswelder.

Don't apologise for your video. It's fine and has helped me to answer a lot of my questions. Keep posting videos, I look forward to seeing more of your work. 👍

This is really a helpful video. It helped me a lot. God Bless!!!

@bar-zn8lk

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I appreciate this review it’s helpful. Thank you so much. Keep going.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@bar-zn8lk

9 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I want to apologize again for the poor quality of this video, I didn’t realize how bad it was till after I posted it. If I ever do another video, I will do better.

@g.wes.3906

Жыл бұрын

As long as the information is accurate, not all videos must be a Michael bay production. Just keep going.

I think with flux-core, once you go beyond the total cheapo welders, it's the wire that matters more. Plus how low it goes. More "Low" is better. You ideally want one that goes down to 7.5 or 7.8 amps - how high it goes is irrelevant. 7.8 amps runs 0.8mm wire good on car bodywork..

@bar-zn8lk

Жыл бұрын

Something I find strange is that most people start out welding with flux core wire, but these welders do not include a drive roller for flux core. I just bought a new Hitbox MIG 250 and am working on a KZread review of it. It is advertised as a 4 in one aluminum welder. A bottle of argon gas to weld aluminum would cost more than the welder.

@jamesward5721

Жыл бұрын

@@bar-zn8lk I run flux core through all our welders - we have quite a few. Only 1 has a "proper" flux core drive-wheel on the wire feeder. Never had an issue with any of them running flux. The one with the "proper" driveline has a whine off the cooling fan that would do your head in listening to it all day - so it seldom gets turned on - despite it being the best welder at running flux-wire. So yeah - the "proper" drive wheel is better - marginally - it's stuff you'd only notice when you have thousands of hours done - miniscule difference. I live with the tiny drop in performance from our other welders just to not have to listen to that whine all day. That "Whiney" welder also goes down to 6.6 amps at 12V nominal - it is the one feature I can't find on any other welder, even our spendy ones. You have to over-ride all the automatic settings to manually get into that low range (it's buried deep in a menu) - but when you do, it's superb on body-panels. I have 2k welders that can't even dream of offering such low settings. But that whine... Man, it would do your head in.. I just "live" with the fact 99% of welding machines are built for maximum high-end power because that is what people shop for, when really, IRL, low-end is where it is at for bodywork. I don't care how high a welder can go - I care how low it can go. Most manufacturers are obsessed with that "Max Power!" out of the cheapest frame.. I'm obsessed with "Minimum Power" out of any frame anyone is selling., Minimum is where the good stuff happens. "Max Power!" on 1mm steel is about as useful as an ashtray on a bicycle. You want minimum power,but smooth. My welders are all set at "1" - I dick with the wire feed speed to bridge the technology gap after that.

I have the same welder, the gas will not change the amperage I believe the equipment inside the welders just fluctuate from the factory on these Chinese welders. I have a YesWelder rated for 250amps and one guy on the internet is getting around 250 on the meter but I'm only getting about 180 amps.

@bar-zn8lk

Жыл бұрын

You are probably right about the different factories. According to bigtb1717, Yeswelder seems to constantly over rate their welders specs. If you haven’t seen his videos, you should check them out.

Thanks for the post, I will probably buy one of these as an upgrade for my stick welder .It would be good to know about mig welding alloys with this,thankyou again

@bar-zn8lk

Жыл бұрын

As I understand it, different alloys may require different gas mixes, and of course different filler metal.

Very helpful video - think I will buy one

@bar-zn8lk

Жыл бұрын

If you haven’t already seen it, check out my video on the MIG250 by Hitbox

Thank you for sharing your thoughts

@bar-zn8lk

Жыл бұрын

Thank you I hope they were helpful.

Can yoy use with flux? If yes....how confirgure the machine

@bar-zn8lk

Жыл бұрын

Yes, you can configure it for flux core. You select MIG welding from the menu and then it will ask for the type of metal, flux core welding is one of the options, so you would select that

Are the dinse connectors beefier on this one than the MIG250? Seems like these may be 50A and the 250 appear 25A. The Arccaptain has 50A from what I can tell.

@bar-zn8lk

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the connectors on the 200Pro are beefier than the ones on the Mig250. I don’t know why they made them different as they have about the same output. I guess it is cheaper to use the smaller ones and keep the price lower.

@idontwantcorporateretaliat6301

Жыл бұрын

@@bar-zn8lk certainly less copper there. FWIW, I saw a Russian open the 250 in another video and on first glance the boards look identical to the arccaptain w/the arccaptain just taking up more space w/the case (though beefier connectors).

Does yours in synergic only go up to 4.8 mm thickness like mine?

@bar-zn8lk

Жыл бұрын

Using .8 mm wire, you are correct it only goes up to 4.8mm thickness. With 1 mm wire it goes up to 6.8 mm thickness. As I said in my first video I’ve never seen 1 mm Mig wire in 10 pound or smaller rolls but you can get 1 mm flux core wire.

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