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Originally Posted by JRouche
Batteries? They have replaceable batteries? Yes, I guess yours does cause you said you replaced them. What do the batteries do? Mine has a lil solar panel on it, I thought the power came from that and charged up a lil lith cell or something. The nicer helmets must be serviceable with replaceable lith batteries.
But yours was still turning on and off. If its turning on then its getting power from the weld flash. I know they are variable in shade. So maybe, just maybe. You have the shade cranked all the way up because of the limited amount of current the shade is getting due to no battery and its running off the solar plate only.
But that would cause an overly bright picture, kinda like getting flashed without the UV.
Man. That would be great if it was just the batteries.
Man!! You must have had some pretty bright welding sessions with a limited shade. Not only that but who knows how much of a lag it created for the helmet to turn on without it being powered up till the spark was lit.
Where with batteries the shade is ready to turn on with the first hit of light. But yours had to wait till the solar cell produced energy to power up the controlling circuits and then turn on the shade. Nice lil blast of light. But the good thing is it was only bright light. No UV. The shade still has UV protection even when off. JR
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Thanks JR...I actually felt a lot better after reading your post and the fact that the UV was still going. Yeah it was a pretty bright light show. Haven't tried it again since putting the batteries in right again, but I'm sure the show won't be quite so bright this time.