guideWELD® LIVE real welding guidance system

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The guideWELD® LIVE Real Welding Guidance System helps students seamlessly transition from classroom learning to hands-on welding practice. This innovative system provides real-time, in-helmet training during live MIG and stick welding, offering corrective guidance on core welding techniques as users work in the booth. A peripheral-view display inside the included auto-darkening helmet provides crucial feedback, offering a visual representation of the user’s work and travel angles as well as their travel speed while they weld. The system includes nine default Welding Procedure Specifications (WPSs), with the flexibility to create custom WPS configurations, making it adaptable to a wide range of welding tasks.

Contents

• Auto-darkening welding helmet with in-helmet guides
• Speed sensor board with a base for MIG and stick welding
• Angle sensor
• Stick calibration fixture
• Downloadable curriculum
• 1-year limited warranty

Welding Solutions Implementation

Curriculum

Features

• Provides a peripheral-view display inside the welding helmet during live MIG and stick welding
• Offers real-time feedback on work and travel angles as well as travel speed during live welding
• Includes 9 default WPSs and option for custom WPS creation
• Works with any MIG or stick welder
• Ideal for transitioning users from classroom to welding booth
• Great for in class training, demonstrations, and remote learning

Specifications

• Process: GMAW (MIG) and SMAW (stick)
• Joint: Tee, lap, butt
• Metal Type: Steel
• Metal Thickness (MIG): 16 gauge, 1/8 inch, 1/4 inch
• Metal Thickness (Stick): 1/8 inch, 1/4 inch, 3/8 inch
• Welding Position: Tee, Lap (2F), V-groove (1G)

• Power Source: AA Rechargeable Batteries (includes charger)
• Base: Length: 9 inches (14 inches extended), Width: 22 inches, Height: 13 inches
• Speed Board: Length: 13 inches, Width: 4.5 inches, Height: 1.5 inches
• Angle Sensor: Length: 1.5 inches, Width: 1 inch, Height: 0.375 inch
• Helmet: Viewing Area: 3.86 inches x 1.69 inches, Operating Temp: 23°F to 131°F, Material: Polyamide (Nylon)
• Total Product Weight: 17.5 lbs. (Helmet weight: 2.0 lbs.)

FAQs

Career Preparation

• Potential career opportunities include: welding fabrication, welder, welding inspector, millwright, master plumber, autobody technician, and master jeweler
• Various types of Welders include: construction, manufacturing, structural steel/ironworker, industrial boilermaker, oil rig, motorsports, shipyards, military, and underwater

• Many agriculture and trade skills programs use this tool to engage students in welding curriculum. We’ve seen this guidance system used in welding classes, shop classes, auto and ag mechanics instruction, manufacturing courses, construction programs, and millwright training programs. It’s great for secondary, post-secondary, and adult retraining courses.

General Usage

• This real welding guidance system is ideal for transitioning users from virtual practice in the classroom to real welding in a welding booth

• No! This unique guidance system is used during live welding. It provides immediate feedback on core welding techniques in an auto-darkening welding helmet

• Understand the value of 21st Century learning tools and see how these solutions can easily be integrated into any classroom: Welding Solutions Implementation

• Yes! The peripheral-view display inside the welding helmet during live MIG and stick welding offers real-time feedback on work and travel angles as well as travel speed during live welding

• Yes! The guideWELD LIVE real welding guidance system works with any MIG or stick welder

• No. The guidance system provides live, in-helmet feedback while the user is welding. Users can make corrections while welding, therefore maintaining proper technique every weld, without waiting for a report.  

• No. The guideWELD LIVE real welding guidance system teaches MIG and stick welding in flat or horizontal positions.

• Yes! Instructions on how to customize a standard SD card are included with purchase

• Yes! Training options are customizable to your program. More information is available here

• Yes! Our product support team is available M-F 8am-5pm Central Time via phone, email or chat. Contact customer support here

• Auto-darkening welding helmet with in-helmet guides
• Speed sensor board with a base for MIG and stick welding
• Angle sensor
• Stick calibration fixture
• Downloadable curriculum
• 1-year limited warranty

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