Millermatic 211

[bamadogred]

Hey fellows, I need a board for my millermatic 211 auto set. I’ve had it four years and the board just quit on me. Anyone know where I can find one other than miller?

[ronsii]

I don't believe there are any aftermarket boards out there for the 211's.... you might be able to find a pull on ebay.amz/fb... but it won't be much better than your board was two minutes before it quit

I would pull the board and see if you can find a repair place that will fix it... there are a couple common issues with the 2ng gen 211's that blow a couple components... I'm guessing this is a 2nd gen 211...?

[bamadogred]

Yes it is. It was only a month out of warranty when it blew and miller wouldn’t work with me. The board looks really clean doesn’t look like anything is wrong. But they said the board was out and it would cost 700 to repair it. So I thought I would check here.

[ronsii]

Yes it is. It was only a month out of warranty when it blew and miller wouldn’t work with me. The board looks really clean doesn’t look like anything is wrong. But they said the board was out and it would cost 700 to repair it. So I thought I would check here.

If you can... take some good res pics of the board and post them up

I'd be willing to bet it's the same components that blew as a few other threads here on the welding web forum... of course there's always a chance it is something else... but odds favor the common issues

[ronsii]

Here's a couple pics of the last 211 I had blow... this one took out D45 and D6 diodes... sometimes (most times) it takes out a transistor and maybe a resistor also... but this one didn't....

[bamadogred]

Thanks for the info. My father in-law has it now trying to fix it. I will tell him to take pics and I will post them. I never had a problem with this welder until I hooked my aluminum spool gun and in ten minutes it went down.

[ronsii]

hmmmm. don't recall anything about spoolguns causing issues??? mine have not ran spoolguns.. so yours may be something different???

Oh, the transistor tor the right and down(from the diodes/in the heatsink) is the one that usually blows( I forget the board number) but it's a to220 case or similar IIRC....

[BD1]

Curious, where was machine purchased
at ??
We had a issue with a first generation Miller XMT 304. It was 6 months out of warranty and our welding supplier repaired it under warranty. Machine was purchased from them.


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[bamadogred]

It was purchased at Airgas. They didn’t want to help much. And we spend a lot of money with them. I bought my other two home welders from another weld supply store. They have been more helpful.

[BD1]

It was purchased at Airgas. They didn’t want to help much. And we spend a lot of money with them. I bought my other two home welders from another weld supply store. They have been more helpful.

Air Gas sucked years ago. Now they are even worse. They bought out my local supplier and their cylinder exchanges are off the charts ! I drive 30 miles to a Ma and PA supplier and avoid Air Gas.


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[bamadogred]

I agree. I won’t buy another welder from them for sure. Luckily we have young’s welding. It’s a smaller family owned shop, they just can’t get low enough on they’re gas bottles for us to use them solely.

[Showdog75]

Glad I bought a first generation 211 when they were phasing them out for the 2nd gens. It was $999 with a $200 mail in rebate. Purrs like a kitten.

[ronsii]

Glad I bought a first generation 211 when they were phasing them out for the 2nd gens. It was $999 with a $200 mail in rebate. Purrs like a kitten.

A fat heavy kitten!!!

[duramax-rob]

is a first generation 211 the one with the suite case handle in the top center of the case?

[cwby]

Check here -
https://innovatcorp.com/pc_board_repair_price_list

[John T]

is a first generation 211 the one with the suite case handle in the top center of the case?

Yes.

[bamadogred]

This is a picture of the board. And I hear ya show dog 75. I wish I had the first gen. I can’t believe this one sucked.

[Oscar]

I smoked one of those 211's, but it was my fault for not really paying attention to the duty cycle.

[filetobeef]

shame on miller for crapping on you so close out of warranty.

[Ororo1984]

Do you know the values of these components? I refer to D6 and D45.

[Sberry]

Its great to know there is a fix. We had a balancer with a problem, logic i guess but no fix and another plasma i might pull off the shelf to re look at one of these days.

[Music guy]

I have worked with Miller Electric for over 40 years and never had a problem stretching a warranty over several months. I even had the honor a recall on a transformer in a machine that was 10 years old.
Your problem, as was stated earlier , was your supplier. I always went to bat for my customers and I knew who at Miller who I needed to contact to get things done.
You must remember when buying equipment, its not the company that you are buying from, it's the man representing the company.
His or hers honesty and integerity is what you are counting on with your purchase. I guess that is why my customers buy from me. They know that they get a little part of me with the sale.

[brian.denton]

I know this is an old thread but I was hoping someone my know the value of the resistors that also blow (c63 and c64)
Thanks