Custom Welding Helmet

As a professional welder, you must concern with your safety that is the first thing to remember. You are wearing a welding helmet as your precautions, but what type of helmet do you use? Wearing the right product can greatly affect your eye, neck, and ear safety. Welders are familiar with an arc flash exposure to the intense of arc flash can harm your eyes seriously, such as retinal burns that can cause blindness. Therefore, it is great idea to wear auto darkening welding helmet.

 There are several things you must consider when choosing auto darkening welding helmet:

• Verify that it meets the ANSI Z87.1 standard. This standard guarantees that this welding helmet provide good protection against arc flash.
• Choose a lens shade that will suit your comfort levels. Make sure you wear your helmet properly in the down position when weld. It can change shade by solar powered or battery powered. The difference between solar and battery powered is solar powered shades change depends on light intensity detected, and battery powered shades must be turned on by welder to operate it.
• Analyze the specification before buying helmet. Such as: operating temperature, viewing area, power supply, switching speed, weight, infra red & UV protection, model, price and many more. Detailed specification usually can be found at manufacturer’s websites.

In some occasions, you might want to buy welding helmet that has sensor bar, it will help to alleviate any false alarm darkening of your helmet due to neighboring welders.