Auto Helmet Settings

[Stereophoney]

I am using a 100amp mig and i was wondering what shade of darkness i should be setting my helmet to ?

Thanks in advance

 

[pedrobedro]

9 will be fine.

 

[rtbcomp]

There's no hard and fast rule, working on a practice piece start at the darkest and work down until you can see what you're doing. It may be useful to increase the ambient lighting at the same time.

 

[Stereophoney]

I have plenty of light i'm just unsure of how low i should go before i start to burn my eyeballs to high heaven, i've been using it at about 11 so i can come down 1 or 2

The perils of being a novice eh ??

 

[shenion]

Use whatever is comfortable.

The lens always shades the damaging UV and IR rays to share 13 or more whatever it is set to.

 

[Stereophoney]

Ah right that's good, so basically as long as i'm not being dazzled then ?

 

[jakebullet]

i had mine set to 13, welds were all over the shop. currently got it set to 9, what a difference!