Lincoln Electric Auto Solar Darkening Welding Helmet Warning Make Sure Or Suffer
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Welders flash is awful to have and can take a good amount of time to heal from it. Please check them batteries out and make sure there still good before using any of these type welding helmets. Thank You for watching. SUBSCRIBE if you will. Its always up to you of course.
Watching your video down in New Zealand. I went on RUclips to search for exactly what you've put up. Your a frickin legend mate. Thanks heaps.
Solder some wires onto where the batteries are connected and relocate the batteries outside the case where you can check and replace when needed without taking it apart again
They do need replacing often....thanks for showing location of them :)
Don't leave them out of the sun also, or they will need batteries faster.
I have a three years old non battery powered Linc screen 2 of Lincoln Electric. I use It un my hobby repairs.Last weekend started to fail and make me the same as you, and surprise, It has 2 2335 batteries inside. I want to put a reclamation to Lincoln Electric, because if i don't see this video i would spend another 70 bucks in a new welding mask. I'm very dissapointed with them
Thank you for making this it was very helpful and I’m going to look for a new model rather than try to fix mine
Thanks for the video, didn't know there was batteries either. My mask died after about 7 years of use. Was about to buy another. You saved me some $$
i wear polarised glasses aswell just incase, it has saved me a few times. our mask has easy to replace batteries i bought a pack of batteries of ebay because i had the same issue as you had.
Yea can never be to safe for sure. Good idea. I"m going back to old school welding helmets but with the bigger window. I really need to make sure. I already have a bad eye to start with. A piece of wire went right through one of my eye's and the eye doctor had to change out the lens I had in my eye to a fake lens. Years after that I was not able to see good. Then they laser burned a hole through the lens after that part I was able to see much better. The only thing is now is that eye is real touchy with bright lights. Yea so I have to go back to the old school type helmets. I just can't can risk it any longer is all. TC closer
i did the same for a while but i got tired of rechecking my weld start point, i now avoid the slower reaction masks now and go for the fastest ones i can find and ofcourse quick change batteries.
eye sight like hearing is a beautiful thing and too many take it for granted, atleast you can make people realise how easy it is to loose it and to not take things for granted.
i had brake fluid eat away part of one of my corneas but i was very lucky and it healed , it was annoying with constant visual distortion.
I hear ya.
Joni Mitchell: "you don't know what you've got till it's gone". Ain't that the truth!
I’m disappointed with Lincoln. They pulled a harbor freight move going into disposable hoods. Tsk tsk tsk
Just pulled this same helmet out after 5 years sitting.. flickers and wont stay dark... time for new helmet. wish i had known years ago that this had non replaceable batteries. Good thing the cheap Hobart does.
the lens always protects against infrared and ultraviolet light. it only darkens to meet bright (arc) light conditions so you can see the bead you're running. and yes, the pv cells charge from the arc.
So What does that mean? Are you not going to get a flash or damage your eyes if it doesn't darken??
I'm pretty pissed off cause I think my eyes have been damaged by this helmet which I paid extra money to make sure I was protected!!
This is a class action lawsuit that needs to be taken up with the manufacturer. Mine says "Lincoln" in big letters across the front and they'll be hearing from me.
Let me know if you have any answer for me! Who makes a helmet that can't be serviced without pulling it apart. There should have been a well advertised recall on these helmets.
Anyone else having vision problems please contact me.
Wow...I thought I was only one who was getting flashed by these stupid cheap helmets!
It my opinion to never use a solar charged system.
So I've used a solar one.and noticed after just a few short welds that my eyes are all weird.
I'm like what the?
My theory is that if the batteries are weak or totally dead, then it takes the solar panel an extra half second to actually darken the thing and boom, you get flashed.
Why the heck didn't they just make the batteries accessible so they can be changed?
This is just stupid. It your eyesight for crying out loud!
I'm moving to a battery only or just and old fashion plate...I know that will always protect my eyes!
I had one of these “solar cell” powered Lincoln hoods when I first started out. Got flashed quite a few times before realizing this unit didn’t have easily to replace batteries. Just become too unreliable. Since then I use both Esab and Optrel hoods, Live and learn.
Same here I’m new to welding and getting flashed with this helmet
My helmet is 16 years old auto darkening and works good and I only use it every once in a while and it sits inside. I heard the solar panel charges the battery and there are sensors that detect the arc not the panel itself. It can also charge using the arc.
Testing now, it is sitting in the sun. Maybe it will charge. If not I will be pissed. Had no idea there were any batteries inside.
The Best Mask is with normall Glass.When you have the front Lens made of Glas then you Haven the Best view .Plastic Lens is nothing good.
Greatings from Poland
always leave my lincoln helmet on the dash of my truck and it gets sun, never had this problem
The 2335 lithium battery is not recharged from the solar panel, the autodarkening runs off the batteries, helped by the solar panel. To recharge a lithium ion battery would require a much larger, more efficient solar panel than the cheap small one in the helmet, probably 3 or 4 times larger and costing $10 wholesale just for the solar cell. This is the exact same autodarkening unit inside the $45 Harbor Freight helmets, even the same 2335 brand battery with yellow insulator and spot welded tabs, same circuit board. I've purchased and used small solar cells, this is probably used for triggering the darkening, not to power the unit.
Horrible, that 1. the unit stopped working 2. one battery was dead and 3. You had to crack open the case to get to them.
This means that the maker doesn't care about its customers and also expects you to just replace the whole thing.
Jeffrey Wong I mean, when you buy a low cost helmet that means you don’t expect to use it too much. It’s your choice to buy these throw away hoods, or buy one that has replaceable batteries. I bought a Viking Lincoln electric replaceable aaa battery for 130$ and it suits me. If you weld once a year or a couple times a year and don’t want to pay the money buy a passive good for maybe 40$. Have to do your homework folks.
Sealing the batteries. Bet the manufacturer sells that whole assembly
When i weld, i always weld with my left eye closed, just in case my right eye gets damaged then i still have the other one... its COMEN SCENTS!
Great thanks for the tip. I used it and fixed mine
I looked into this years ago and from a rusty memory the batteries aren't rechargeable although there is a version with rechargeable batteries I am told. The batteries get you started and then the flash takes over from the solar panel while you are welding to save the batteries. I like the old style helmets because I feel after welding with these auto darkening helmets my eyes feel strange afterwoods. Might be my imagination though. With the old helmets you have to be really careful you don't have a crack in the glass because sometimes you don't notice but will realise after you finish welding and are lying in bed at night.
I hear you about the cracks on the lens. The glass lens I like the best. cause to me there much easyer to see the cracks. Them old type helmets are the ones I will be using from here on in. That's all they had to use a one point and it worked out ok. Other people can use what ever they want to. This is my third time having ark eye. Every time was with one of these auto darkening helmets. Not this helmet in the video but the same type really. I just don't want this ark eye to happen any more. This time around having it sure is taking its time healing. So I'm unsure really if each time it happens. The eye remembers it or not from before. Its been 11 days now and its still really bothering me. It seems like each time having it is taking longer to heal up. Just my guess though. But no more chances for me is all.
The batteries must be rechargeable or they could not work with a solar panel. The solar panels feed the batteries and the batteries power the lens.
I put mine near a window and it was charging for part of every day, and it STILL when bad. So parking it in the sun does not help. The masks are just garbage.
It looks like those batteries each have a different part number. Panasonic does make a VL2335 that is rechargeable, but the helmet would need the circuitry to recharge them. There is a question on the Home Depot page for this or a similar helmet where Lincoln Electric said to recharge it by putting it in front of a 60 watt lilghtbulb for five hours. The CR- battery in yours looks not to be rechargeable. Maybe one of each?
I have the same helmet, mine must be slightly newer or a cheaper version because mine uses replaceable triple a batteries
Mine is the same. It’s already burned my eyes twice
Literally here because my eyes are burned from being flashed twice this week due to this cruddy sorry excuse for a welding hood. I too will from now on only use non auto darkening type hoods
Mine is now sitting in the sun getting a charge. If she don't darken I gotta peel that stupid unit open. Getting the shade knob out is the hardest part
Silly design for sure.
Desolder old batteries and solder in cell type holders.
Inside my Lincoln helmet it says to change the batteries if it dont function right...mine is solar also...even tho mine is self darkening I will get everything set up to weld..and at that last second shut my eyes for the initial flash....I thought you were going to show how to replace the batteries in this video..
This I did not know I have a lot of friend in my welding class in highschool that have that exact same hood
My eye's never liked to find out. I'm pretty sure no eye's will. After it's to late it's to late. Then the healing time has to be.
Is this for all Lincoln Electric hoods? Including the newer Lincoln Electric Viking 3350 4C?
Unsure
Thanks for your help!
Welcome
This guy put external battery holders on his and epoxied them to the helmet. They have a OFF/ON switch where you can shut them off if you don't use the helmet much. ruclips.net/video/OrK5NheR0Bo/видео.html
i dont think they solar charge
What model number is that sucker ?
No longer have it sorry no idea now.
Point that mask on the son, and leave it when u not working, it will charge the battery.
Tks.
Same shit happened to me.. dont 400 dolars to the trash in 2 weeks
My battery failed in under a year
More then likely it was sitting on the self to long and sold with out batteries being replaced. My guess.
No shit?