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Thought I'd share my Weldernator

awsome idea, ck5=best money spent in a long time. thanks!
 
I have seen this setup before, very very cool. My friend did this on his jeep using an old chavy alt. His only problem was he said the modified welder would get hot really fast and he could only weld for a short time, he would let it cool then continue. I am trying to remember he also had a weird set up on his hand throttle that had to do with a handbrake from a bicycle.

Anyways Great write-up with pics
I will save this myself.
 
scrappyk5 said:
I have seen this setup before, very very cool. My friend did this on his jeep using an old chavy alt. His only problem was he said the modified welder would get hot really fast and he could only weld for a short time, he would let it cool then continue. I am trying to remember he also had a weird set up on his hand throttle that had to do with a handbrake from a bicycle.

Anyways Great write-up with pics
I will save this myself.
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The bigger the case of the alt and fan the cooler it will run. My hand throttle is a bicycle gear shifter.
 
clarkjw24 said:
I honestly don't know. This alt is an old school 78 amp I believe. Be careful of the newer style alt because it takes a lot more modding to work. I was going to use a newer style 105 but after some research proved to be more trouble that I wanted to go through. Some say the Ford ones work better. I had this one lying around and gave it a shot. I put a volt meter between the leads and it registered 115volts. So I could make up a outlet and run drills or grinders also, using it like a generator.
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Youll want to be careful with drills. A single speed drill will work but a variable speed drill will burn up. It has to do with DC rather than AC. Single speed motors will run off DC but any multi speed or variable speed motor will burn up in about 5 seconds on DC. Just a heads up for yall! Oh blenders seam to be fine as long as you dont change the speed while your using it.
 
original balzer said:
Youll want to be careful with drills. A single speed drill will work but a variable speed drill will burn up. It has to do with DC rather than AC. Single speed motors will run off DC but any multi speed or variable speed motor will burn up in about 5 seconds on DC. Just a heads up for yall! Oh blenders seam to be fine as long as you dont change the speed while your using it.
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Truedat, I should have stated that earlier. Thanks
 
original balzer said:
Youll want to be careful with drills. A single speed drill will work but a variable speed drill will burn up. It has to do with DC rather than AC. Single speed motors will run off DC but any multi speed or variable speed motor will burn up in about 5 seconds on DC. Just a heads up for yall! Oh blenders seam to be fine as long as you dont change the speed while your using it.
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great info, thanks!
 
original balzer said:
Youll want to be careful with drills. A single speed drill will work but a variable speed drill will burn up. It has to do with DC rather than AC. Single speed motors will run off DC but any multi speed or variable speed motor will burn up in about 5 seconds on DC. Just a heads up for yall! Oh blenders seam to be fine as long as you dont change the speed while your using it.
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If you remove the rectifyer bridge (the piece the 3 stater or coil/spool wires connect to) and wire them together you will get straight AC current. I'd imagine you'd need some sort of transformer ro something before you rig outlets into it but that would create energy just like a job site generator for instance.

I'm glad we learned how an alternador works in school yesterday :)
 
subscribed for w/e reason. I'll probalbly never do it cause i'm lazy but nice to know i CAN :D

Oh and BTW awesome ;)

Guys on here never cease to amaze me
 
original balzer said:
Youll want to be careful with drills. A single speed drill will work but a variable speed drill will burn up. It has to do with DC rather than AC. Single speed motors will run off DC but any multi speed or variable speed motor will burn up in about 5 seconds on DC. Just a heads up for yall! Oh blenders seam to be fine as long as you dont change the speed while your using it.
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If you remove the rectifier you will get AC voltage but it still will not be 60hz so you will want to be careful of what you plug into this. Sensitive electronics will blow.
 
nsxxtreme said:
If you remove the rectifier you will get AC voltage but it still will not be 60hz so you will want to be careful of what you plug into this. Sensitive electronics will blow.
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You just need to find the right RPM to get 60Hz, but the voltage would prolly still be wrong. I wouldn't use it to charge my iPod, but it would be fine for a $20 harbor freight drill during a field fix. :crazy:
 
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