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YESWELDER FLUX-135-PRO review

Name: YESWELDER FLUX-135-PRO
Brand: YESWELDER
SKU: B0FY2K2D8C
Availability: InStock

The cheapest machine on this page, and — unusually for the price — one that publishes a duty cycle figure at all.

The bottom line The cheapest sensible way in, with one honest number on the label and no way to verify it beyond Germany.

At €110 the FLUX-135-PRO is the cheapest machine on this page, and it does something the machines at three times the price mostly do not: it publishes a duty cycle.

The one number that matters

Sixty per cent at 135 A means the machine can weld for six minutes out of ten before thermal protection intervenes. The qualifier is that the figure is given at « room temperature » rather than at 40 °C, the ambient the standards specify — so it is a generous reading, and in a hot garage in August you will get less. Even so, a percentage attached to a current is a figure you can plan around. Compare with the €160 machine higher up this page, which claims 200 A and says nothing at all about how long it holds it.

What you get

Gasless flux-cored welding, with synergic control: you set the wire feed and the electronics adapt the rest. A digital LED display, which is the difference between « that setting worked » and « that setting worked and I can find it again ». Stick welding with adjustable arc force and hot start — both genuinely useful when an electrode wants to stick to cold steel. Lift TIG is listed, and requires a torch that does not come with the machine.

Wire is 0.8 or 1.0 mm on 2 lb spools. Those are small and, per kilogram, expensive; the machine’s size is the reason.

Why it appears here as a German listing only

The listing publishes no EAN. An EAN is how a product is proved to be the same product on another country’s store — a translated title proves nothing, and copying a reference across a border is exactly how a link ends up on a page that does not exist. Without one, the reference is verified for Germany and nowhere else, and readers elsewhere get a local search instead.

Sources

Current, duty cycle, processes, synergic control, wire sizes and display come from the manufacturer’s published specification. No EAN is published for this reference, and no cross-market claim is made because of it.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-13. The live price is at the top of the page.

What we like, and what we don't

Strengths

States a duty cycle, which most machines at three times the price do not
Synergic control and a digital display at €110
Arc force and hot start are adjustable on the stick side

Compromises

No EAN published, so the product could not be traced to the French, Italian, Spanish or British stores
Gasless only, and the lift TIG mode needs a torch that is not included
2 lb spools — small, and priced accordingly per kilogram

Specifications

Maximum current	135 A
Duty cycle	60 % at room temperature (manufacturer's figure; no ambient temperature stated)
Processes	Gasless flux-cored, MMA, lift TIG (torch not supplied)
Wire feed	Synergic — set the feed speed, the control adapts
Wire	0.8 and 1.0 mm, 2 lb spools
Display	LED digital
Amazon reference	B0FY2K2D8C
EAN	not published — the reference could not be verified outside Germany

Questions people actually ask

Why is a stated duty cycle worth mentioning?

Because its absence is the norm. « 60 % » means six minutes of welding in a ten-minute period at the stated current before thermal protection intervenes. The figure here is given at « room temperature » rather than at the 40 °C the standards use, so it is optimistic — but a number you can reason about beats a maximum current with nothing attached to it.

Why is it only listed for Germany here?

Because the listing publishes no EAN, and an EAN is how we prove that a reference on another country's store is the same product. Rather than copy the German reference to four other markets and hope, readers outside Germany are sent to a local search. A dead product page is worse than a search result.