Build thread: nickel strip spot welder from microwave oven transformer

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Re: Build thread: nickel strip spot welder from microwave oven transformer

Post by 32wildbilly » Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:28 pm

5chn3ll wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:46 pm The biggest pucker factor is that it tends to blow through the nickel strips because I don't have the proper switching hardware built yet. Ideally it would be pulsing 2-3 times for each weld instead of just dumping current through the electrodes while shit glows white-hot and vaporizes.

So, at a very macro level, it works great! At a micro level, I need to make it suck less before it's usable - but it doesn't work any worse than I was anticipating for the v. 1 build. Time to update the built posts - well, almost time.
You young people are so interesting and entertaining with your science projects. :shock:
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