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The interior canisters are also easily replaced. The batteries will provide 8 hours of service once fully charged and will last for at least 1,000 charging cycles. A battery charger is included, but does not have an automatic shut off.

- The helmet and ear-I muffs can adjust to a |large range of sizes, | and the visor is mold-| ed polycarbonate that | offers high resistance I to scratching and | impact. The earmuffs ^; are designed to I reduce noise levels to 123dBL. The total I weight of the assembly exceeds 6 lbs, I with the helmet unit I weighing just under 2 i. lbs. At this time, f no protective sheets fare available for I the visor.

| Once T put the hel-I met in use. two things | became immediately | obvious. The hose | transmitted blower I noise when my head was in certain positions and the earmuffs were locked in. There is a lot of background noise in my shop when the dust collectors are running along with the vacuum on the scroll saw, so the blower noise was generally not a problem. However, when there was no background noise, 1 found it a bit annoying.

The blower puts out 5.3 CI-M of air and is shipped with a flow meter so that you can determine when the filters need changing, or when the battery needs lecbarging

iCutting on a scroll I saw manifested the ii other problem: opti-I cal distortion when | looking through the | visor. 1 noticed it | when 1 first put on Ithe helmet, but it Ii really became appar-| cnt while cutting. A | lew of the other hel-

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II have tried over the | years also suffered I from this problem,

but 1 could usually find a sweet spot. | That was not the case there. 1 called the i Triton office and | advised them of the situation and was ; informed that they had not received any I other complaints, and there were no replacement visors on hand. They also advised me that they checked two other units they had on hand that also had a bit of distortion.

Needless to say, 1 was disappointed and informed them that 1 would be returning it for a refund, and they had no problem with that. If the distortion is ever corrected, I could live with the blower jjjgisc. After all, my hearing has been going downhill, and the Wit is really well made and priced right, r

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