Tuesday, December 11, 2012

DIY Welding Helmet Auto-Darkening ADF700S fix

Welding Helmet Auto Darkening ADF700S
4/9-13  1/3/3  EN379
ANSI Z87.1
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DIY auto-dark helmet fix
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Welding is just a hobby of mine, in my free time I play around with my welding machine, I hardly use my helmet, I event kept it in the box along with the manuals, my welding helmet is about 4 years old. Last week when i was about to use it to weld some stuff, the auto-darkening is acting strange, it flickers, gets delayed until it wouldn't work anymore, I even left it under the sun to charge the battery, still no luck... :(


So heres how I fixed my auto-darkening lens.


1st, remove the lens from the helmet.

 Pull the dials out...

Then use a cutting blade.






take your time, dont rush slicing the case.
Next is u remove the batteries.






Be careful when removing the batteries, other components are very close to each other, what i did is i removed the tap weld from the battery 1st before i unsolder the thin sheet metal from the board. After removing the battery, I tested it and battery is dead, no juice at all.

Next, i took some battery casing from old comp motherboard and use that, so that in the future when the battery drains out, it will be quick and easy to replace it.

REMINDER.... dont forget to mark the positive and negative when u replace the battery and try to solder clean as possible, dont put to much lead and make sure when u solder a battery casing to the board, make sure the pins doesnt touch the other side of the board, coz it will get in contact with the solar panel and ur auto-dark lens will not function properly.


Last pic.


Hope this help u guys....




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14 comments:

  1. Chr!sMay 9, 2013 at 2:42 AM

    Hello,
    awesome article !
    this help me for my problem.
    about the battery : I can see you put some CR2032 tu replace CR2330, is it good enough ?
    I know it's the same voltage but about capacity?
    Many Thanks,
    Chris

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    1. ShadeJune 12, 2013 at 12:32 AM

      yup, its working well, since I did this proj until now I haven't replace the batt....

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  2. Chr!sJune 12, 2013 at 9:36 AM

    Thanks for reply and the nice tips !

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  3. ayMay 26, 2015 at 9:49 AM

    I have another solution. For me it's the easier one, because I didn't want to cut and glue the cover. There's a little split at the bottom, above, left and right. So if you go in the split with a cutter, you can move the cutter up and down until you can hear a quiet crack. You make it at all four sides and then you have two halves and in one of these halves are the batteries you want to change. When you changed the batteries you can just put it together and it holds. I hope it helps;)
    I'm sorry for my english:)) (I'm from germany)

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    1. UnknownMarch 13, 2017 at 11:56 AM

      Stupid idea... I ended up cracking the lens from trying to do this... Just cut the top like op did...

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  5. SEOSeptember 2, 2015 at 6:41 AM

    Hi,
    Thanks for the great details, i really looking out for this kind of information.

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  8. PeterJuly 26, 2017 at 3:46 PM

    Thanks for the tutorial! It was super helpful!

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  10. UnknownSeptember 13, 2018 at 12:54 AM

    Question. Does any one have any suggestions on reparing a bent section of my welding helmet. Ive tried searching counless times but i get no answers on fixing the bend out plese let me know of any tips u may know of thank you

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