I built a new battery set for my PLB using a similar welder. I did adjust the pulse time until the welds could not be broken but the strip would tear. Nice little device.
yeah, they’re pretty impressive failed a few years ago I think I have video on fixing it, but I had to fix it .. This brand-name so far is pretty decent It works good Can’t wait till you building a new E bike battery 🪫 My battery I built every cell was soldered with a big electric gauge wire I think I have video on that too also but yeah, pretty awesome little device powerful can’t go wrong with the charging bank too lol 😂
@@GregM no Greg unfortunately they’re not. I don’t believe you had to replace the whole probes or disassemble the probes the other model they sent me has replaceable tips. That’s why I appointed it out in this model that you can’t replace the tips. Kind of a bummer just keeping honest review but Gray I would probably refer this one to It’s got some serious power I didn’t even up it I was at setting 3 and you can go to 8 lol
its xt90 bullet connectors minus the yellowq case just search for those then the wire 10 guage i think it is might be 8 guage then you can make some tips sorta like nails that you use to nail a 2x4 to a house frame you can solder some of those and grind down the tips alittle or leave em which ever works so yes.. but id keep the same lenth because of electrical amp losses this thing dumps about 250 amps or more at once.. really a capacitor style is far better than a lipo style capacitors charge up you can build one and they discharge instantly which is what you want the reason this is so slow and welds crappy is its not a capacitor type so your limited by how fast the lipos in side and thers 2 of them 5000 mah each that limist the amps apppplied to the probes so get a table top 110volt model they are far better far stronger or build a capacitor style.. just a regular old capacitor like for car audio with a arduino and a fast mosfet to dump all the current pleanty of youtuybe vids on it
i have one of these always use gear 8 press down on the probes hard as you can and close to one another as possible it will only do 0.15 thickness so if you take 2 0.15 tabs and weld together they will break apart easy its only meant to do right on the battery its self with 1 0.15 tab... also it has a major drain on the internal battery if you let it go 2 months it will be down 50% that controller board inside has a parasitic drain..it will damage the pouch lipo cells anything below 3 volts which is 0 bars so charge it up often or check it.. its really not that good also there is a problem the case is soooo close to the terminals that you plug it into so you can short it out a guy did a mod where he stopped that.. really if you do this alot you want the table top version this is just for once in a while and the wleds are not that strong if at all
I built a new battery set for my PLB using a similar welder. I did adjust the pulse time until the welds could not be broken but the strip would tear.
Nice little device.
yeah, they’re pretty impressive failed a few years ago I think I have video on fixing it, but I had to fix it .. This brand-name so far is pretty decent It works good Can’t wait till you building a new E bike battery 🪫 My battery I built every cell was soldered with a big electric gauge wire I think I have video on that too also but yeah, pretty awesome little device powerful can’t go wrong with the charging bank too lol 😂
So are the tips not user replaceable in this unit? I had briefly looked at getting a spot welder for batteries but I would not use it enough.
@@GregM no Greg unfortunately they’re not. I don’t believe you had to replace the whole probes or disassemble the probes the other model they sent me has replaceable tips. That’s why I appointed it out in this model that you can’t replace the tips. Kind of a bummer just keeping honest review but Gray I would probably refer this one to It’s got some serious power I didn’t even up it I was at setting 3 and you can go to 8 lol
its xt90 bullet connectors minus the yellowq case just search for those then the wire 10 guage i think it is might be 8 guage then you can make some tips sorta like nails that you use to nail a 2x4 to a house frame you can solder some of those and grind down the tips alittle or leave em which ever works so yes.. but id keep the same lenth because of electrical amp losses this thing dumps about 250 amps or more at once.. really a capacitor style is far better than a lipo style capacitors charge up you can build one and they discharge instantly which is what you want the reason this is so slow and welds crappy is its not a capacitor type so your limited by how fast the lipos in side and thers 2 of them 5000 mah each that limist the amps apppplied to the probes so get a table top 110volt model they are far better far stronger or build a capacitor style.. just a regular old capacitor like for car audio with a arduino and a fast mosfet to dump all the current pleanty of youtuybe vids on it
WHEN STORING keep the battery topped off!!! if it gets low it won't charge back up again. i'm make sure to charge mine ever few months or more.
i have one of these always use gear 8 press down on the probes hard as you can and close to one another as possible it will only do 0.15 thickness so if you take 2 0.15 tabs and weld together they will break apart easy its only meant to do right on the battery its self with 1 0.15 tab... also it has a major drain on the internal battery if you let it go 2 months it will be down 50% that controller board inside has a parasitic drain..it will damage the pouch lipo cells anything below 3 volts which is 0 bars so charge it up often or check it.. its really not that good also there is a problem the case is soooo close to the terminals that you plug it into so you can short it out a guy did a mod where he stopped that.. really if you do this alot you want the table top version this is just for once in a while and the wleds are not that strong if at all