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6 FAQs about [Energy storage cap welding]
What power source does a spot welder use?
Other spot welders often use car batteries, microwave oven transformers, high-current li-po battery packs or supercapacitors as power source. All of these things seemed to be very powerful and somehow scary to me, so I decided to use an capacitor bank made of regular electrolytic capacitors.
Does a spot welder need a microcontroller?
This spot welder, unlike many available DIY projects, doesn't need a microcontroller to work: the welding pulse is triggered using relay module and a timing capacitor. Welding current is switched with an old recycled industrial thyristor module. Pulse energy can be adjusted with a potentiometer, which changes the voltage of capacitor bank.
How does a spot welder work?
It can be used to weld nickel strips to battery packs. This allows re-building battery packs for various devices, especially ones that are no longer maintained by the manufacturers. This spot welder, unlike many available DIY projects, doesn't need a microcontroller to work: the welding pulse is triggered using relay module and a timing capacitor.
Can a spot welder use a Nichicon capacitor?
Currently this spot welder uses automotive grade Nichicon capacitors. It would be a good idea to check the feasibility of using cheaper capacitors, and test if it's better to use higher voltage ratings, or higher capacity. I managed to capture oscilloscope image of the pulse with an old analog Philips PM3226 oscilloscope.
What is a portable spot welder?
Portable spot welder that doesn't need microcontrollers, uses recycled industrial thyristor and mostly off-the-shelf components In this project I designed and built a prototype of USB-C powered capacitive discharge spot welder. It can be used to weld nickel strips to battery packs.
How do you charge a welding probe?
Capacitors are charged with a step-up DC-DC CC/CV converter and USB-C PD connector (a regular barrel jack can be used instead, if one prefers). Welding probes are connected with XT90 connector. Welding pulse is triggered with a button attached directly to one of the probes.