YESWELDER True Color Auto Darkening Welding Goggles, Wide Shade Range 4/5-9/9-13 with Grinding, Welding Glasses Welder Mask Welding Helmet for TIG MIG ARC Plasma Cut

The goggles attach to a small face shield that protects the face from getting blistered while MIG welding. Don’t ask me how I know, but trust me on this one. The only downside is the connection between the goggles and face shield will come undone too easily…as in every time you take the combo off. The BEST feature is the goggles by themselves allows me to get in tight places that are not full helmet friendly.

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First off, these are not a replacement for a proper hood. However, if you are doing stuff like cages this can be very useful especially for tacking or short beads. Surprisingly good lens, coloring. I ditched the face plate and just wear the goggles. Again, this is just for very short tacks and runs where I would just be using safety squints otherwise because with a normal hood there was just not enough room. Two negatives; whoever designed the ergonomics of these goggles has never seen a human face before. They are crazy uncomfortable and poorly designed. Secondly, the controls are horribly placed and very easily self adjust if you nick anything. However, these things are absolutely worth the money and I am very happy with them.

Did a fairly large complicated heavy stainless frame job for NOAA, lots welding, lots of tight spaces. This shield performed perfectly. 6 stars 4u!

Now this little bad boy is what I’ve been looking for!Comfortable and works excellent out of the box. I haven’t looked at my millet helmet once since I got this. Great for tight jobs and very comfortable on as goggles with an integrated face mask.

I bought this set of goggles for welding under a vehicle with limited overhead space, where my regular welding helmet kept me from getting close to my work.I use this with it's optional face mask and a cloth welding balaclava for complete protection.

I thought this would be handy eye protection for arc welding. Unfortunately, even at the highest shade setting, it was too bright. My settings for a short test were maximum shade, maximum sensitivity, and minimum delay. The test weld was with .035 flux-cored wire and 3/16” mild steel. Even after a test of only few seconds, my eyes felt the excessive brightness. While the sensitivity and delay seemed to work okay, the lack of adequate shade prevented me from actually seeing the weld area. I then compared these goggles with my standard full welding hood, which worked fine. So, this is just not usable and in my opinion is dangerous. The manual specifies the goggles will go to shade 13, but I think it is much less and could result in eye injury. I double checked the CR2450 lithium disc battery to be sure it was putting out full voltage and it was fine.When I first received the goggles, I tried to do a test using the sun, which my other welding hoods work with. However, these goggles did not work properly in sunlight. Sometimes, it would darken and sometimes it would not. I contacted YesWelder support and was advised that these do not perform in sunlight due to ambient light issues. Next, I used a flint sparker to test the goggles and they appeared to work okay.These goggles come with a snap-on face shield. I found the shield awkward to install and remove.As received, the black silicone skirt on the goggles which provides a seal to the face and eyes was not fully installed in the recesses in the googles, so I had to fiddle with that to get the skirt properly installed.YesWelder support was helpful and responsive, but at the end of the day I am very uncomfortable with the product and would be concerned about eye injury. This is not an inexpensive product. You can purchase full automatic welding hoods that work quite well for less than the cost of these goggles. So, given all of the above, I have returned these to Amazon.The sensitivity

I had to adjust the cover and the circuit board underneath so that it wasn't jammed against the set of dials. There needs to be more room for the circuit board so that your employees don't destroy it snapping the cover on. There is no excuse for that and I'm willing to bet that is a big part of why there are so many complaints about the lenses flickering/not working in various applications. Another thing is both of the sensors where scratched in the manufacturing process. I've noticed the goggles definitely don't work quite the way they should when testing with a flashlight, regardless of whether I use high beam or lowbeam. Sometimes it will get stuck in darkmode in a low light setting. The big problem is, the patent for this product is being used by at least five different companies. Whether or not YESWELDER is the original manufacturer or a "Cash Grab Corp" is beyond me. And you need to sell replacement lenses for the inside that are made of hard plastic that cannot be easily scratched by a microfiber cloth. I have yet to use these for tig welding. But if these goggles are not useable for tig welding a pipe in a mirror from roughly 2 feet away, I'm probably better off cutting up my Vulcan hood and using that with some leathers velcroed to it. I will hopefully have time to try them out this week.