One of the most important features to look for when choosing the welding lens is the auto-darkening aspect. However, the general standards require that the lens protect the welder’s eyes regardless of the shade settings. It is therefore critical to determine the correct shade number for your welding process. Additionally, they come in different shades for various welding applications. Welding lenses also allow you to see what’s going on, and they help prevent eye arc, a painful eye injury that affects the cornea. So, with the best welding lens, there is a reduced likelihood of injury from welding light or foreign bodies. Also, it not only protects your eyes from light but also from stray sparks and slag. It helps protect your eyes from the intense light given off by welding machines, and it is necessary for all types of welding. The welding lens is probably one of the most important PPE that any welder will ever own- and it is for a good reason. They are also passive helmets, and all of these helmets, despite the price and lack of advanced protect your eyes from all harmful radiations ionization of shielding gas and are under the ANSI standards.Welding is one of the most dangerous professions, and this is why safety is a top priority. Most welding helmets of this kind come in the classic shape, but you have also probably seen pancake helmets. The disadvantage is that you will need to manually change the welding lens shade by removing the helmet and replacing this tinted glass piece with another. This passive filter lens of a single shade is easily replaceable in case it gets damaged and you can find replacement everywhere. They use a simple tinted piece of glass of a single shade (most of the time, DIN number default is #10) instead of the ADF filter. They are not battery power, have no arc sensors or any other technology in them. Favored by pipeliners and old-school welders for its simplicity and durability. The technology is still advancing, and we can expect even better protection and comfort from new helmets. Meager reaction time, multiple sensors with better switch time, side windows, constant UV and IR protection, true color filters, and durable solar power batteries.įor the sake of the numbers, I should just mention that, for example, shade #9 allows through just 0.037% of the light, and shade 13, which is considered as the highest shade on most welding helmets, passes only 0.00072% of the light through its filter and all welding helmet shades of course block UV light.Īll these features and improvements are not the end of the road for ADF helmet. However, in their infancy, the first auto-darkening helmets were of poor quality with horrible reaction time, two sensors of low quality, and were short-lived batteries.įrom the stone age of auto-darkening welding helmets to the present day, the modern variable shade lenses and technology that powers them have drastically improved. Setting shade on Auto Darkening Welding helmetsĪDF lenses (Auto-darkening filter lenses) are a product of revolutionary technology in the welding helmet world. Any helmet that you put on your head should meet the ANSI Z87.1 standard. There are safety standards set in place from ANSI for all welding helmets. Welders that performed these tasks use passive welding helmets with a fixed shade lens above 13.Īfter all this sad and before you start your work, make sure that the helmet and ADF filters are not damaged and are working properly. For example, you can melt your sensors off and the front of your helmet when using the Flux Core welding process with inner shield wire at high amperage settings. It can also be extremely harmful at higher amperages, where you use a lot more heat to bind metal pieces together. That is the wavelength that most welding helmet sensors are picking up. IR rays are basically heat emitted from the welding arc. In Low Amp TIG welding, the shading level will be extremely low (din number #8), and corresponding to the amperage, the light that the welding arc emits will lower, causing less strain on your eyes and letting you use an above sad lower shade number. It’s a myth that you can damage your eyes using a low shade level.Īs I have said above, the shade level corresponds to the amperage used and differs depending on the application. Shade level does not correspond with the amount of protection that the wearer gets from the ADF lens. Of which UVB is most harmful) in the “ light state,” which is under lens shade number of 2 to 5 depending on the quality of your welding hood.
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