Forked over $200 for a 'top tier' welding hood, turns out the auto-dark feature was trash

Bought a fancy Miller hood off a supply house deal last month, saved $50 but the auto-dark kept flickering on me during a job in Nashville. Had to switch back to my old passive lens after one shift. Anyone else get burned by a hood that looked good on paper?

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thomas_roberts1mo ago

Man that's rough, you saved fifty bucks and ended up losing a whole shift fighting a flickering hood? I had a similar deal with a Jackson hood a couple years back, the sensor would ghost on me every time I tried to weld vertical up on some 1/4 inch plate. Had to keep flipping my passive down between passes, drove me nuts. Ended up just keeping the old hood in the truck for backup after that.

jordan_webb491mo ago

Fifty bucks ain't worth losing a whole shift over a hood that won't stay lit