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Adam Mc Laughlin wrote:Terrific review - I've been shopping for an AD for my pipeliner and this is the feedback I was looking for
Thank you !
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Hi Guys

So... I got the Arc One AD lens that goes to a shade 11

http://www.amazon.com/ArcOne-S240-11-2- ... op?ie=UTF8

This one lens was $110. I bought it to use in my pipeliner hood.
First things that I found was that when I try to use it with TIG.. it flashed you good.
Ok, I am going to cut it some slack because TIG welding on the lighter materials uses so little current the sensor would have a hard time sensing the arc

Tried it with MIG
Getting flashed on every time that I start the arc as well. Tried this with the MIG machine set up for 1/8" materials

Hummmmmm

Yet I see that the closest relative ( which costs 1/2 of the price of the shade 11 unit ) seems to get consistent 5 star reviews

http://www.amazon.com/ArcOne-T240-10-Tr ... +darkening

Has anyone else had this experience?

Adam
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Adam Mc Laughlin wrote:Hi Guys

So... I got the Arc One AD lens that goes to a shade 11

http://www.amazon.com/ArcOne-S240-11-2- ... op?ie=UTF8

This one lens was $110. I bought it to use in my pipeliner hood.
First things that I found was that when I try to use it with TIG.. it flashed you good.
Ok, I am going to cut it some slack because TIG welding on the lighter materials uses so little current the sensor would have a hard time sensing the arc

Tried it with MIG
Getting flashed on every time that I start the arc as well. Tried this with the MIG machine set up for 1/8" materials

Hummmmmm

Yet I see that the closest relative ( which costs 1/2 of the price of the shade 11 unit ) seems to get consistent 5 star reviews

http://www.amazon.com/ArcOne-T240-10-Tr ... +darkening

Has anyone else had this experience?

Adam
I bought the second one you have there for $55.

I Love it. Can't comment on the higher priced one, but I would hope it would be better. I guess not.
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Perhaps, Adam, you received a defective one?

I'd think, if you're dissatisfied with it, I'd contact the company and arrange an exchange. It's not a bad product until two of them are bad....

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Well I got my lens that goes to shade 10.5 in the mail today

I charged it up in the summer sunshine this afternoon

I'll give it a run this weekend , and if it's night and day better than the edition that darkens to 11 I'll call the company and ask for an exchange or check-out return shipping authorization

Side note

Does anyone here use the shade 10.5 with a slightly darker lease on the inside of the hood like a shade 1?

Adam



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I knew a guy who used a shade 9 fixed lens, and when he wanted darker he'd where dark safety glasses with it. These can be found as dark as equivalent to shade 3 (though I've never seen them labeled that way) for about shade 12 welding.

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The welding inspector at my work wears a shade 9 by itself for his full time arc watching

That always spooked me about messing up my eyes for good

Adam



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Lens is doing great.
It's my go to for just about anything.


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