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My homemade TESTLA powerball
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2018-01-07 at 9:24 PM UTC
USE TWO BATTERIES, A PILE OF PLANKS AND SOME DECK SCREWS AND BOLT IT UPThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-01-07 at 9:39 PM UTCI don't get what it does/is supposed to do...
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2018-01-07 at 9:48 PM UTC
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2018-01-07 at 10 PM UTCthose connections are too precise. (except the one missing its heat-shrink) theres no way your retard-self 'homemade' that.
and...those aluminum/brass connections= retard.
it would be a work of art if it werent for that ghetto wood attachment.
Originally posted by FREEMYPEOPLE oh, well
its just a couple auxiliary batteries to run my refrigerator and stuff, so I don't run down my starter battery.
youre doing it the hard way. just get a battery isolator and wire it in. problem solved. -
2018-01-07 at 10:03 PM UTCReminds me of when I was in the Navy.
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2018-01-07 at 10:24 PM UTC
Originally posted by infinityshock those connections are too precise. (except the one missing its heat-shrink) theres no way your retard-self 'homemade' that.
Where do you think you are seeing aluminum?
and…those aluminum/brass connections= retard.
it would be a work of art if it werent for that ghetto wood attachment.
youre doing it the hard way. just get a battery isolator and wire it in. problem solved.
You don't like that I used wood period? Or how I attached the fuse block up high?
Yes the big wires are 4/0 which I bought premade, they did a nice job. -
2018-01-07 at 11:01 PM UTC
Originally posted by FREEMYPEOPLE Where do you think you are seeing aluminum?
You don't like that I used wood period? Or how I attached the fuse block up high?
Yes the big wires are 4/0 which I bought premade, they did a nice job.
the ends of the cables
no. wood is so...stone age. high-tech electricity combined with cave-man tech doesnt do it for me. kydek is cheap enough and easy enough to work with theres no reason to use wood.
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2018-01-07 at 11:16 PM UTC
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2018-01-07 at 11:24 PM UTCThose batteries are fucking expensive man.
https://battlebornbatteries.com/shop/12v-lifepo4-deep-cycle-battery/The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-01-07 at 11:25 PM UTC
Originally posted by infinityshock the ends of the cables
no. wood is so…stone age. high-tech electricity combined with cave-man tech doesnt do it for me. kydek is cheap enough and easy enough to work with theres no reason to use wood.
very pretty
Definitely not aluminum, those are tinned copper which is very common on lugs and bus bars.
I think it looks pretty cool personally, going to add some better support for the fuse block and it will be pretty nice. Never worked with kydex before but I had the PLANKS laying around already.
Originally posted by AngryOnion Those batteries are fucking expensive man.
Supposed to work out cheaper in the end though, they claim you get a shit-ton of cycles out of them. And there are quite a few other perks over lead acid too.
https://battlebornbatteries.com/shop/12v-lifepo4-deep-cycle-battery/ -
2018-01-07 at 11:35 PM UTC
Originally posted by FREEMYPEOPLE Definitely not aluminum, those are tinned copper which is very common on lugs and bus bars.
I think it looks pretty cool personally, going to add some better support for the fuse block and it will be pretty nice. Never worked with kydex before but I had the PLANKS laying around already.
you sure its tinned and not aluminum? aluminum gets that shiny-then-dull look from the swaging process...whereas tinned copper has the same sheen throughout...but it may just be a trick of the lighting in the pic. thats the new trend nowadays...to sell heavy gauge cable/wiring, such as for jumper-cables, then precipitate a molecules-thick layer of copper on it, and try to sell it as copper. if it is, in fact, tinned...thats better than bare copper. aluminum is shit when the manufacturers go full-jedi and use it in place of something it shouldnt be used as...such as plumbing, automobile parts, electrical, etc.
the bus bars on my 110v/220v house panel are tinned copper. i had to special-order it because no one gives a shit about quality anymore...and it was about $100 more than aluminum bus bars.
kydex is just thermoplastic. its cheap and easy to work with. you melt it to the shape you want and/or cut it how you want, then sand the edges smooth...or heat then fold them for a professional look. -
2018-01-07 at 11:37 PM UTC
Originally posted by benny vader and yet men is still incapable of producing artificial woods. are you living in a wood-free environment ???
theres no reason to produce artificial wood...it grows in the dirt.
pretty much...yea. the only wood in my house is the roof trusses and interior walls. everything else is concrete. my shed is concrete/plastic...with a few pieces of wood as a 'skeleton' BUT the wood is embedded in concrete to keep the termites out. -
2018-01-07 at 11:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by infinityshock theres no reason to produce artificial wood…it grows in the dirt.
yea ... after 350years of growing.pretty much…yea. the only wood in my house is the roof trusses and interior walls. everything else is concrete. my shed is concrete/plastic…with a few pieces of wood as a 'skeleton' BUT the wood is embedded in concrete to keep the termites out.
tables, chairs, bed frames .... all non-wood ??? -
2018-01-07 at 11:49 PM UTC
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2018-01-08 at 12:03 AM UTC
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2018-01-08 at 12:04 AM UTC
Originally posted by infinityshock you sure its tinned and not aluminum? aluminum gets that shiny-then-dull look from the swaging process…whereas tinned copper has the same sheen throughout…but it may just be a trick of the lighting in the pic. thats the new trend nowadays…to sell heavy gauge cable/wiring, such as for jumper-cables, then precipitate a molecules-thick layer of copper on it, and try to sell it as copper. if it is, in fact, tinned…thats better than bare copper. aluminum is shit when the manufacturers go full-jedi and use it in place of something it shouldnt be used as…such as plumbing, automobile parts, electrical, etc.
the bus bars on my 110v/220v house panel are tinned copper. i had to special-order it because no one gives a shit about quality anymore…and it was about $100 more than aluminum bus bars.
kydex is just thermoplastic. its cheap and easy to work with. you melt it to the shape you want and/or cut it how you want, then sand the edges smooth…or heat then fold them for a professional look.
Yea I actually did a very bad thing and filed the edge of those lugs down so they would fit. I used bigger wire than necessary which means a very bulky lug, a bit too much for the way the battery posts are kind of tucked-in below the top of the battery. Anyway yeah I filed them down a hair and revealing their copper construction.
What kind of panel do you have? I knew some of the small ( and dirt cheap ) square d stuff at the home improvement store had aluminum bus.
I know what you mean about low quality junk, back to the jumper cables they love to use unnecessarily thick insulation to give the illusion of a larger wire.
Originally posted by benny vader if that were true then there wouldnt be so much deforestation.
wow I just about choked on my cup noodles
thats kind of metrosexual gay taste you have there. -
2018-01-08 at 12:11 AM UTC
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2018-01-08 at 12:23 AM UTC
Originally posted by FREEMYPEOPLE Yea I actually did a very bad thing and filed the edge of those lugs down so they would fit. I used bigger wire than necessary which means a very bulky lug, a bit too much for the way the battery posts are kind of tucked-in below the top of the battery. Anyway yeah I filed them down a hair and revealing their copper construction.
What kind of panel do you have? I knew some of the small ( and dirt cheap ) square d stuff at the home improvement store had aluminum bus.
I know what you mean about low quality junk, back to the jumper cables they love to use unnecessarily thick insulation to give the illusion of a larger wire.
wow I just about choked on my cup noodles
yea...you dont want to file something that is coated. messes up the galvanic current for one thing...
you could just have used bigger lugs/terminals instead of altering the actual cable ends. i always use bigger wire/cable than the NEC says. as far as im concerned they dont know what theyre talking about based on my own observations. all my new circuits are 10ga/20amp and ive been back-wiring all my existing 12ga/20amp circuits into 10ga/20 amp circuits. i dont even use 14ga/15amp for anything in my house...even the fire alarm circuit that is relatively low amp draw. the literal first project i did on my house was pull out the aluminum cable that fed my stove/range and replace it with copper.
my current/new main panel is a square-D QO for 200amp...40 circuits. my old one was a sq-d homelite for 100amp with like 20 circuits, but i had a bunch of tandem breakers in it that gave me about ten extra circuits...give or take. all that stuff the box-stores sell is for home-owners who dont know anything other than how cheap something is. they stock what sells the best/most and can make them the most profit. i had to special order my panel because all they stocked on the shelves was shitty aluminum-bus panels.
ive been looking at some of the new homes under construction in my area and im surprised that theyre using sq-d QO panels with the tinned copper bus bars, considering everything else on the homes is about as sub-par as it gets...which is ironic since theyre high-end houses in a gated community. -
2018-01-08 at 10:50 AM UTC
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2018-01-08 at 11:02 AM UTC
Originally posted by AngryOnion Those batteries are fucking expensive man.
https://battlebornbatteries.com/shop/12v-lifepo4-deep-cycle-battery/
LiFEPO is not cheap and 100A output is huge
Still though, a grand each? goddamn
What are you using to charge them? Solar?
