Also helpful is an additional anti-fog coating that avoids fog on your glasses.*Our Perfect Skin Shade Finder offer is valid with your more than $25 purchase at while supplies last. Moreover, some safety glasses provide dust protection through rubber or foam that sits tight on your face. Then you need to decide if you want auto-darkening functionality. Which features should I look at before buying?įirst of all, you should determine your required shade levels.
If you need high shade lenses, you must wear an additional full face mask, because your face will need extra protection.Ī good alternative for welding goggles and glasses are welding helmets, which cover your whole face.
Shade 5 is the darkest lens in safety glasses before you need additional skin protection to avoid burned skin. If you do not protect your skin, it can lead to welding sunburn. You should make sure to wear additional safety clothing like welding masks, welding jackets, welding trousers or welding gloves. Welders glasses do only protect your eyes. Then try out lighter shades until you have sufficient view of the weld zone. Check out the overview from Lincoln Electric here which shows the correlation between amperage and weld process.Īs a general rule, you should start with a shade that is too dark to see the weld area. Moreover, it also depends on your amps how bright the welding arc is and what shade you need. In contrast, the shade rating just tells, how dark the glasses make your sight. Welding goggles for arc welding, plasma cutting, torch cutting, plasma welding, MIG welding and TIG welding require a shade level of up to shade #13.Ī thing a lot of people do not know is, that all well-designed welding lenses filter out almost 100% of the UV and IR waves. Typical arc welding helmets come in a range of shades from #9 to #14, where shade #14 is the darkest you can get.
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