YESWELDER Panoramic Auto Darkening Welding Helmet

First of all to everyone saying this won’t trigger all the time and gets you blinded… If you were to actually read the instructions it tells you if that happens to hit the Test/Reset button while looking when it failed to darken and it resets it to work properly.

I used the sun to calibrate all my settings. I also had the issue and looked in troubleshooting (page 14, Q#2).

Pros:
-very large spectrum of sensitivity and delay settings
-darkens very nicely, darker potential than my HF helmet (grey iron man looking one)
-no green tint, it’s clear
-USB Type-C recharging for LED.
-even comes with a soft cotton tout/bag

Cons:
-The helmet interior seems a bit close to the lense and causes my nose to hit
-The straps need to be 100% tight to not fall down until your face hits the screen

(both issues can be somewhat remedied by making top strap tighter and tightening knobs down hard)

-A bit on the heavy side, not a deal breaker but definitely heavier than my HF grey mask.
-LED brightness not adjustable.
-the mask sensors are in a horrible spot, if you have anything get in the way of them the helmet will u darken and make you blind. Make sure to always weld with your forehead more centered than usual

Pending results:
-The lenses minimum darkness isn’t 100% clear, but could be neutral if used for grinding with a slightly shade
-LED is kind of odd in AUTO mode. While testing it flickered a lot. I’ll update once I use it to weld.

After welding.
Engineering recommendations and flaws (yesWelder listen up)

-LED is useless during welding and interferes with its own sensors which makes you repeatedly get blinded…
-the sensors are in a horrible spot and should be in different positions (not just in a straight horizontal line in one place above your eyes). If they had sensors below the visor and above it would be better. The side sensors are useless anyway.
-LED should be seperate from the lense by the sensors as they interfere due to glare and screw up everything.
-not sure why but this thing likes to flicker, especially the small windows

Good

When I saw this futuristic orange thing it caught my eye not only in specs and design but it had to be a lump of dump for the price. It was just too low of a price to compare to $400-600 welding helmets. With much hesitation I purchased it expecting to return it but when I received it I was kinda shocked to see what it was capable of. I have 4 other helmets, Harbor Break basic, Daco Pro, Midline Hobart helmet and a Midline Lincoln helmet. I have never used one of my other helmets since that day. The color and clarity is astounding. I can literally work with my helmet on and it doesn’t matter what the lighting is I see almost regular. When the lens activates it kinda scares you because it seems like your seeing to much detail and color. It took my welding to a new level because I could actually see well. I let my wife try the old helmets and then the new one and her only words were, how have you been welding if you couldn’t see anything. The reviews are kinda screwy and you’ll read about bad head piece but it’s a different model. It’s sturdy the whole thing has held up extremely well and the way the lens cover is designed prohibits smoke and grime from getting to the lenses. The batteries and the extra batteries are worthless and shouldn’t even bother with them. The unit cleans up nicely with degreaser and I am just amazed at the price and value you get with this item. The pics I uploaded are after my helmet got muddy with the monsoons but a wipe to the shirt and it’s still heads and tails above the rest.
In my opinion this was and continues to be a great value and one of my favorite purchases from Amazon as of yet.
Update as of 12.22.23
I was able to get my second one for even less. I spent $130 on my first one and I only swallowed hard because of my lack of knowledge of the brand and the hassle of yet another trip to the UPS store. Fast forward and I needed to make a few really good looking welds on a ongoing functional art project and couldn’t recall where I had stored my last supplied lens replacement (3rd) and they were out of stock on Amazon for a replacement set. So now years later and after the great reset of the old world I was eager to replace my old mask that is now sown together with 14 gauge copper cord from some scrap romex wire after a bag of concrete crushed my helmet completely above and below the lens diagonally split and not wanting to try to epoxy the seam together which would allow for it to contour in from the lens assembly again because I would have to place patches over the graphics on the exterior as well as the interior for it to work well. So I took a brazing rod heated it up and melted a whole on either side of the split every 1/2 inch and with little U’s I bent out of the copper wire would sow the helmet together with every twist. It is cool looking ( will try to remember to upload picture) but not being able to find lens replacements or order new ones and not wanting to stare through scratched lenses and concrete powder for this death match of a weld I was planning searched for the helmet again assuming it would be twice the price I originally paid but absolutely ok with the imagined inflated price of say $260 I couldn’t believe it was even less. Almost well not almost but half the price I first paid. $130 initially and now $89 and even still offered a $10 off coupon. Ok so the first one I loved and thought it was perfect but in actuality the batteries they included were trash and even after replacing them their onboard solar charging circuitry was trash. The integrity of the mask overall was a little bit flimsy after it would sit but a foot away as I try to beat the duty cycle to lay a perfect 48 in bead on some 3/8 in plate in a single pass flux core style. The mask would have done a dab if I turned quickly. Also the knob to tighten the head set against the back lobe of your head would on occasion loosen by it self. But the mask was a steal so now even cheaper didn’t even care for these little annoyances that only surfaced with many miles (except for the crappy charging of crappy batteries were day oners). So it seems this totally typical Chinese company that brain washes you to accept their mediocre product by proclaiming yes to welding somehow has redesigned all of those flaws that I had experienced and a few others that I could now reduce and remade this thing and lowered the price by 40%. I was blown away so I said Yes welder bought a welder and a couple plasma cutters from them too. Everything they make is so impressively built and priced that sometimes when I’m bragging I tell people I’m Chinese like my new welding stuff. That was a lot of typing on a phone yo and they made me do it. Figuratively yo. And like 5 periods. Like I said I’m awesome and I’m Chinese just like my Yes welding stuff yo.

Very clear optics for the price. A little heavy. Not good if you wear glasses under you’re helmet, side lenses create a clearance problem for me, no slot for standard cheater lenses ether. If you don’t need to wear glasses and not wearing it all day it would be a great helmet for the serious hobbyist or light industrial use.