Yeswelder CT2050 TIG Testing - Surprising Results 

I just want to say thank you for this great review on the YES CT2050 welder. I have been welding for 40 years and was thinking about buying this very machine, not for me but for a cousin that asked me to find a decent welding machine that had multiprocessing. I currently have a Miller 330 A/BP AC/DC with High Frequency, Gas and water valves connections and a range from 5 amps to 460 amps. It's the real deal for serious welding needs. I believe it's a 1987 or 1988 model with approximately 100 hrs. or less on it. I bought it maybe six years ago along with the paperwork from WESCO Welding Supply. Extremely smooth arc. I was thinking about selling it and getting a multiprocessing inverter, now I'm cautious about doing that. I'm going to watch all of your videos to get your honest opinion on what you have had experience with. I'm retired and now 72 years old, sad thing is forgetting the names and places you worked, even all the wonderful knowledge of welding and fabrication, the real tips and tricks you had to know and not being afraid to share them. Could you please tell me how you filmed the weld puddle doing aluminum or really any type of welding. I'd like to leave some videos of my welding for my family to see and especially my grandsons to see. God bless and thank you so much for sharing your input on these inverter machines. Paul Greenlee

My cat really didn't like the sound when you were doing DC tig below 20 Amps! Great review, thank you.

Great video. I feel bad for the people who spend good money for this only to not have the capability they think they do. The aluminum issue with the foot pedal is a huge deal, doing fillet welds is going to be real tough with sub 150 amps. I am glad you’re doing these videos so people know what they are getting. Makes me wonder if yes welder will ever actually produce a functional accurate spec welder, or if they will just disappear one day lol.

Wow now that is a eye opener to see yeswelder's old tricks again or something to do with quality control! Who knows hopefully they will see this video and try to fix the problem. Keep up the great work with the videos!!!👍👍👍👍👍l

Great video once again..a true hero jumping on these Chinesium grenades for us again and again..lol any chance you might try the Vevor flavor machines..Lotos and Primeweld machines are great to use but not so much on subject video content as they actually work well..lol..but Vevor may be a 50/50 roll of the dice depending on individual model etc..

great review and demonstration!

I think the potentiometer inside the pedal is out of adjustment (or just not designed for the full range). Simple test would be to check the resistance at “full power” between the handheld torch and the pedal. The machine clearly does it, so seems that its just the output of the pedal.

I just have no watch your video again and seeing that on the AC side that you can't even weld a couple of coupons together of a thin that's going to suck for someone who spends good money on this machine when you can't even get 150 amps to weld an aluminum joint. I have a primeweld tig225x and when I'm welding aluminum I got 180amp on the dial. Hopefully yeswelder sees that and they start getting on the ball with getting these machines doing the right thing!!!!!!!

This is why i'm not a fan of these all in one machines. They do so many things, but do none of them well. I was currious about this welder, but i'll stick with my primeweld 225x.

I paid $1k for it mostly to have a plasma cutter which doesn't need an extra air compressor to attach to and tig option to weld aluminum, in one machine. I didn't expect it to be a miller or Lincoln quality, so for a diy it should be a good machine machine with a small flows like this

Awesome vid. Did you call Yeswelder? If so, what did they say. It should be a warranty. you may gave gotten a dud

I feel like for this level of cost that stuff should have been worked out. A dedicated AC/DC tig cost much less (ie Primeweld) can easily pulse and use a foot pedal and has none of these issues. Also i agree that the interface is highly annoying.

Great info. So you think the problem is the machine or the Foot Pedal? Did you measure the ohms when the foot pedal was up and down?

Hola me pregunto si la maquina titaniun sobrevivió.

Seems like yes welder probably should have done a little more r&d on this. I’m pretty sure they’re r&d consists of a guy with a phone that calls up the manufacturer in china to deliver a welder with certain features and then yes welder just boxes it up and sells it without batting an eye.

I might have missed it, but does this machine do mig and did you make a video on it as a mig welder? The tig function seems to be a bit of a failure as well as the stick function, so curious about it as mig . Why have it for only a half decent plasma cutter.

Just curious what AC Hz freq were you using when testing the AC output? My understanding is it needs to be on 60 Hz for an accurate reading but I really don't know for sure.

I like the fact that everything you say (as a result of your test) is always weighted... You are not into the sort of «hay fire» comment... When you say it is perfectly usable, I read: «well, it is usable, but who wants to buys something that is partly defect?» or «... that partly works fine, partly not...». Yeswelder? Never! These guys seem to not be so well intentioned... They had so much red flags from reviewers all around. They need to make their proofs...

So basically, is Chinese junk that doesn't deliver advertised specs, is incapable of any meaningful work and tries to be all things to all people. (Which as we all know NEVER works out.) Take a hard pass on this $400.00 welder...yes, I know it's north of $1600 (closer to 2K), but it's being generous to say it may be worth 400...actually, a Welder that doesn't do the job and STRUGGLES to weld 1/8" aluminum is WORTHLESS.