New PU205 owner and stumped.

[turbo_bully]

I used to own a HF helmet that had the replacable batteries/solor and it worked great so I recently picked up another on sale, however, its only solar powered and I've been reading some people have had some probs with them. I even tried leaving my helment outside all day to charge up, but that help any. I'm gonna go return it for a battery powered lid and see if that helps.

What makes my issue so frustrating is that it is intermitent, it happens with both finger/pedal control.

I'm hoping its just a faulty helment, but i'm gonna feel like the biggest idiot if it is...

I know HF can have some hit or miss things, so maybe mine is a hit and yours is a miss, but my HF helmet (one with blue flame graphics) works just fine even at low amperages. It works all the way down to 5 amps or so where the arc barely even causes any HAZ discoloring.

Does the problem of it getting bright only happen with the pedal, or happen all of the time?
Also, contamination of the tungsten can cause all kinds of interesting things to happen.

[performance]

Tig is best used with a 4 sensor design or a widely spaced sensor. My Jackson works good for most tig...but the unit has amperage sensitivity control too.