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Russ from MN

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I just tried looking at the sun through my Speedglass automatic welding helmet, and it works fine. It's a little cloudy today
so I felt safe. The lense is adjustable up to 13, and has 2 options, I think tig or mig?, not sure, the same symbols on both
settings. On one it will darken and you can see the sun just fine, on the other it doesn't. I don't plan on looking at it for
more than a few seconds, like someone said, how many miles have we driven into the sun!
 
I'm going to where it's total. Looking forward to it,but I've been listening to the experts whenever one turns up. They said it's safe with the naked eye at 100% total,but even at 99% it can blind you. I was listening to one yesterday who said that looking directly in to the sun can kill cells in the back of the eye and lead to temporary or even permeant blindness. They said it might not be noticeable at first. Said you might go to bed with nothing wrong then wake up blind in the morning. I plan to use the utmost caution,but I'm not going to let a lot of old wives tales ruin the experience either.

I burned my eyes with the arc welder when I was in high school. That was a miserable couple of days. I don't plan to take any big chances with that or blindness.

I remember Ray Charles telling in an interview one time that he wasn't born blind. He said he used to like to stare at the sun. That's probably what blinded him.
 
I set mine on 12 and put on a pair of #5 cutting glasses. Looked up at the sun and the lights went out. I'm good to go. Heard on the news today Amazon's recalling several thousand pairs of "Official Eclipse Approve"glasses. Come to find out maybe they aint approved.
 
"He said he used to like to stare at the sun."

I've heard that too. Must have been something wrong before he went blind. Why would anyone like that?
 

Let's not forget everyone is looking at a hydrogen fusion reaction with only some distance , a weak magnetic field and a couple miles of air between you and it.
 
(quoted from post at 04:57:18 08/17/17)
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I'm about 5 seconds from being in the middle of eclipse so friends and family are coming to our house. I'm glad it only lasts a couple of minutes.
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Back in the late 1990s we had a total eclipse in New England.
I was working on a small Dam at a water treatment plant in Connecticut when the eclipse happened and used my welding helmet to look at it. It probably had a #12 in it and there was no problems. It was a cool experience.
 
I'm just wondering what makes this one so special compared to that one in the 90s. there wasn't all of the excitement. It was just mentions on the new. There wasn't thousands of people driving to the areas to see it or different businesses with gimmick commercials on TV.
 
I have a few welding helmets, might see what the lenses are. I have looked at the sun before using one of them, a couple years ago I think it was mercury in front of the sun that you could see. I could also see a couple sun spots too.
 
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