lastcowboy32
Well-known Member
OK... am I crazy?
I just started wearing glasses a year ago. I have a pair of transition lenses that get darker in the Sun, and I have a pair of clear glasses.
I hadn't welded much of anything last summer, but this spring, I bought a new welder, and the first time I tried it, I was wearing my Transition lenses. When I went to weld, my auto-darkening helmet didn't seem to work.
I figured it was old, battery was dead (it's a solar-cell version) battery was old... whatever. I went and bought a new helmet.
Now, things have been good with the new helmet, but just by dumb luck, I had never used it with my Transition Lens glasses.
Until last weekend. I had been outside all day, wearing my Transition Lens glasses; and I started to work on something in the shop late that afternoon. Put on my new welding helmet...over my transition lenses... and I got a serious case of eye burn, as soon as the arc struck.
Of course...stupid me... I tried another arc.
Another eye burn.
Our "son"...(neighbor's kid who practically grew up in our house) was standing by... with my old helmet on... which I have left out to charge a lot this summer... he was like... "Try this one, it was working for me..."
I tried it... Another eye burn.
Now...just dumb luck... I went back to my new helmet, and in all of the changing helmets, putting my fireproof ski-mask thingy off and on... I left my glasses off...
BAM... helmet worked fine...
So, I thought back to high school and college physics... isn't there something about it takes two polarized lenses polarized orthogonally (right angles) to stop light... but if you add another polarized lens behind it... the light comes back. Has something to do with wave-particle duality...
So... has anybody had something like this happen...where their welding helmet appears not to work, if you wear Transition Lens glasses underneath?
Or have I been victimized by some crazy coincidences?
I really don't want to try to experiment with this anymore to prove my point... I think my eyes have had enough...
I just started wearing glasses a year ago. I have a pair of transition lenses that get darker in the Sun, and I have a pair of clear glasses.
I hadn't welded much of anything last summer, but this spring, I bought a new welder, and the first time I tried it, I was wearing my Transition lenses. When I went to weld, my auto-darkening helmet didn't seem to work.
I figured it was old, battery was dead (it's a solar-cell version) battery was old... whatever. I went and bought a new helmet.
Now, things have been good with the new helmet, but just by dumb luck, I had never used it with my Transition Lens glasses.
Until last weekend. I had been outside all day, wearing my Transition Lens glasses; and I started to work on something in the shop late that afternoon. Put on my new welding helmet...over my transition lenses... and I got a serious case of eye burn, as soon as the arc struck.
Of course...stupid me... I tried another arc.
Another eye burn.
Our "son"...(neighbor's kid who practically grew up in our house) was standing by... with my old helmet on... which I have left out to charge a lot this summer... he was like... "Try this one, it was working for me..."
I tried it... Another eye burn.
Now...just dumb luck... I went back to my new helmet, and in all of the changing helmets, putting my fireproof ski-mask thingy off and on... I left my glasses off...
BAM... helmet worked fine...
So, I thought back to high school and college physics... isn't there something about it takes two polarized lenses polarized orthogonally (right angles) to stop light... but if you add another polarized lens behind it... the light comes back. Has something to do with wave-particle duality...
So... has anybody had something like this happen...where their welding helmet appears not to work, if you wear Transition Lens glasses underneath?
Or have I been victimized by some crazy coincidences?
I really don't want to try to experiment with this anymore to prove my point... I think my eyes have had enough...