Just curious if anyone who TIG welds uses a HF autodarkening helmet? My helmet has never gave me any problems when using my MIG but when I bust out the TIG. It's like it not dimming enough cause it's like I'm welding without a helmet. I can go back bust out my MIG and it works fine. It's like it just can't handle the TIG's rays. I don't even weld with the TIG cause I don't feel like looking like Ray Charles. I've got the helmet adjusted as high and quick to darken as it can go and still rawdogs my eyeballs.

 

probally just cant handle the intensity of the light.

get a miller if you can scrounge up the cash, i ------- love mine, never had a problem once and its solar charged.

 

It's probably a good 3 years old so I'll just take it in and get a new one. I took it out side and held it up to the sun and it didn't even turn on.

 

I never had a problem when using the tig.

 

Mine worked fine but after using it for a month I just scrapped it for a Miller. I am on my second Miller and its great.

 

stop using continuous high frequency, its ------- up the electronics in the helmet. high freq is just electricity jumping though the air and it ***** up cell phones, watches, ---- like that.

 

uh, i weld daily on aluminum which requires the use of hf continuous and it never ***** with my miller auto darkening helmet.


adjust that bitch or get you a nice helmet, or get a flip helmet the tried and true way

 

I got a speedglas helmet a while back, the low-end model at ~$149 @ebay IIRC. I've used it for TIG and it works fine. Seriously the best money I've ever spent on something, including -----. But thats because I don't have to pay for ----- either

 

ok, this has really been bothering me. What the ---- does "IIRC" stand for