Buying guide to choosing the best Dekopro Helmet
Though Dekopro is the best brand for safety equipment like welding industry and they have made their name in this sector. There are different types of Welding helmets in the market but to make sure your money is not getting wasted you need to consider a few things and they are discussed here.
Auto darkening feature
The auto darkening feature is famous among the welders as they do not have to put on and off constantly to see what’s going on. An auto darkening helmet can save your time let you work and put your best effort to get the best result.
Auto darkening feature can protect sensitive eyes as the LCD screen with variable shades gets dark within a shortest time. This way your eyes will be protected from ultra violate rays. UV/IR rays can burn skin or you can get arc eye.
So when you are selecting a helmet for your work try to take those which have auto darkening variable shades with LCD screen. Check the helmets feedback from the customer who bought it before.
Build Quality
Build quality is also a big fact. Try to look for a helmet which is made with good design and material used in it should be durable enough. Welding job means you have to work with metal. So when you are working with metal your equipment may bump with metal sometime. If the equipment is made with low quality material it might get damaged but if it’s a durable material it will withstand little hit or you will be able to use them for a long time with a single investment.
Manual Controlling
Manual controlling lets you control your helmets LCD screen and how you want it to provide you safety. Modern Auto darkening welding helmets let you control major functions. You need to look for that feature. If you can control three things of a helmet, that will ease your work and ensure the safety of your eyes. These 3 major things are
- Sensitivity control
- Delay Control
- Shades control
1. Sensitivity control
Sensitivity control let you have a grip on your helmets darkening feature. Sensitivity control helps your helmet to adapt to the environment where you will work. Long story short it controls the censors to act. How much light will make the LCD dark is determined by this manual control.
2. Delay control
Delay control mainly focuses on how fast your welding helmet will go dark. This way you can manually set up the time that when you are welding how quick or slow you want it to become dark from the normal state. On the other hand, this manual control will also determine how much time it will take to get normal from the dark.
3. Shades control
Shade control basically controls how many shades you want to use while you are working. Most of the welding helmets have shade range from 1 to 14 but you might find some with more shades for extra protection. This shade range should be used wisely.