For me Fritz I like the pancake when I'm outside welding. I carried my digital elite and pancake when I was running the 6" pipeline a few weeks back. I used the Miller early morning before sun came out and once the sun was up I switched to the pancake. For one, the pancake defended better against ol' sparky jumping off in my ear. Second, I hate how the sun glares in from behind me and makes it more difficult to see the things I want to see. The pancake is pure darkness and with the #10 shade and good sunshine you can see the pipe, the previous passes, bevel and so forth with no problem. Third, with the glare from the sun I was always reminded that I really needed to shave. While welding, plus glare from sun got a great mirror image of my graying stubble over the top of the current weld I was laying in.
Now, I absolutely love my Miller but when it comes to the sun and outside, always fall back to my pancake. Spent 3 weeks running hot water pipe for some boilers indoors. That was 3 weeks of Miller time. Great because I could push a button, grind, push again, weld. We went outside to tie in a stub up to some new "plastic" line and out came the Wendy's. When I get a new pancake I'm going to get an auto dark lens for it, then the miller won't see much weld time when I'm running pipe outdoors. Still be my go-to hood for mig, tig, indoor piping but outside, can't beat the pancake. Plus, it's hard to burn up a Wendy's pancake. It used to be white, now more smoke brown but still hangin' tough. The standard hoods catch things in the corners where your lens meets the hood and melts, cracks shaded lenses when welding overhead excessively. Had a clinker burn through the outer lens and crack the shaded lens, didn't know until I struck the next arc....Whoooaaa boy!! Overhead, 7018 on 1 inch plate for hours and hours at a time. Lucky for me one of my old Jacksons, simple cheap fix. Do that to a Miller digital elite and that's gonna hurt. Hope this helps answer your question, happy welding!!
Shawn