Just bought a blue design, and gonna try it out for the first time today. At my high school, we do flux arc welding. Excited to try it!

Excellent video. Thanks!

Excellent review my friend.

That heavy green look is a protective layer put on the inside of the lens, take it off and you're gold. I had the same issue and discovered that protective layer on there from the factory, it has several layers of those on both sides of the lens.

Nice review. Would be interesting to measure IR end UV blocking.

nice video Derek, staight and to the point. what kind of welder are you using in the video? i have a cheap flux core welder my BIL gave me. thanks.

What you need to mention is that it’s a disposable helmet. The batteries are not replaceable. I bought this helmet about 4 years ago. I don’t weld a lot but when I do weld I need a helmet that works. This past summer I needed to weld something and this helmet no longer worked. That’s when I found out the helmet did not have a replaceable battery. So in the garbage it went and I had to buy a new helmet. I ended up getting the green titanium helmet which is night and day difference.

can u explain the function of the knobs my helmet takes abt 10 seconds to switch back from dark to light,, I want it to switch back to light alot faster.

delay is how long it takes to go from dark state to light state after the arc is extinguished. You want the delay as much as possible to protect eyes from the light coming of the glowing red metal.

Good one, Derek. I got an Antra which I bought on Amazon, carbon copy basically of yours as far as the tech goes, and yes same problem with the screen getting dirty behind the outside plastic shield. It's a pita to have to pop the little shield off, wipe off everything inside and all that...would be nice if there was some kind of gasket there to keep from dust and such getting behind there like that.

Having problems with mine flickering while oxy acetylene welding. Might be a problem with low current tig as well

Hey did you ever take off that green plastic from your helmet lens ? I did on accident I don’t know if that’s bad or not ?

I got one today. Why do they put those strange decals and stripes on the helmet? is there a reason?

I paid $110 dollars on a hobart welding helmet. I did it because my welding instructor said the harbor freight will quit working fast and they won't auto darken anymore. This can happen but you can replace the battery last I knew. Anyway I hate that helmet. I have to take it all the way off just to change it to grind. Because the switch is on the inside. It has darkness 9-13 dial as well but I have to inside for the grind feature. Also it has the same problem with getting dirty super easy.

Im starting welding in school is this a good starter helmet?

My chicago electric helmet does great as well unless I'm working with thin sheet metal. All the rapid starts and stops kind of out pace my helmet but so far that's the only flaw I've ran into with it

Does anyone know the inner lense dimension

I had the Cheap HF helmet. It worked good for about 4 years. The batteries aren't replaceable. The factory installed batteries are sitting on the shelf going dead in the box. I bought another helmet and it was DOA. I returned it. I ended up buyIng a new one on EBay for about $40.00. Replaceable batteries, full size screen, and full adjustments. The CCP knockoff market is cutthroat. Once US Mtg sent the first operation over there everything, and I mean everything, they took with them was copied and is now being made by slave labor. Patents mean nothing. Once you set up the operation it is cheap to just run it. Hi end, low end, one plant makes it all.