I want to make a cap discharge spot welder but I need a SCR that will handle about 125 amp or more and be able to control it with a Basic Stamp. Here is the story about this spot welder
I bought it on EBay It came to the house and I pug it in wall the battery charger worked the welder controller would work but did not put power to the welding transformer because two pins on the SCR where broken loose on the control board repair that and now it burn the wire at the plug off
so I got some 3 wire so cord 14 gauge and a 20 amp plug and try to run the welder again now
I tripped a 15 amp breaker so I put a 20 amp breaker and tripped that one as well
So I send the EBay seller
an email telling them the problems that I was having with this welder
So they send me a new transformer with the Probe arm and a new SCR with a heat sink
and this transformer tripped the breaker as well
so I took both transformer and hook them in series And # 8 battery cable on the secondary and now I can melt wire and not trip the breaker
so now I have an extra set of probes to make a cap discharge spot welder
I would not send back this welder because it would about $ 100.00 to ship it back to China
I will hope fully will get this weld to work now
I bought the computer caps on EBay 6 @ $7.00 each and 4 @ $ 8.75 each
One of these caps can light a 50 watt 12 volt light for a second with the charged to 10 volts
I bought it on EBay It came to the house and I pug it in wall the battery charger worked the welder controller would work but did not put power to the welding transformer because two pins on the SCR where broken loose on the control board repair that and now it burn the wire at the plug off
so I got some 3 wire so cord 14 gauge and a 20 amp plug and try to run the welder again now
I tripped a 15 amp breaker so I put a 20 amp breaker and tripped that one as well
So I send the EBay seller
an email telling them the problems that I was having with this welder
So they send me a new transformer with the Probe arm and a new SCR with a heat sink
and this transformer tripped the breaker as well
so I took both transformer and hook them in series And # 8 battery cable on the secondary and now I can melt wire and not trip the breaker
so now I have an extra set of probes to make a cap discharge spot welder
I would not send back this welder because it would about $ 100.00 to ship it back to China
I will hope fully will get this weld to work now
I bought the computer caps on EBay 6 @ $7.00 each and 4 @ $ 8.75 each
One of these caps can light a 50 watt 12 volt light for a second with the charged to 10 volts