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Hi i have posted photos of my joule thief circuit and a thermal electrical generator from Ethan Woollard , will also post a schematic...
1 Aug 25, 2011
11:46 am

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I hurt my foot and it slowed me down so while sitting in the office answering the phone I constructed a small battery really a fuel cell. it runs on oxygen in...
1 Aug 24, 2011
6:18 pm

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I have been breaking out my welding equipment for a medium large project to construct a wood gasifier powered generator. Some of the welding equipment has been...
3 Aug 23, 2011
4:38 pm

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Hi Ed. I don't know if you have gotten that DVD available that you mentioned on the YouTube videos, but if so, I'm sure willing to buy 1. I'm trying to figure...
2 Aug 23, 2011
12:03 pm

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sounds like your going to have lots of construction fun with your cutter , myself i have been playing with an oscillator circuit , its name on the web as a...
5 Aug 20, 2011
10:29 am

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I got in a plasma cutter today a 50 amp model GiantTech Plasma Cutter Model Slice50DP and it works very well.I am going to build a wood gas gasifier to run...
1 Aug 18, 2011
7:57 pm

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I have been up grading my backup power system and just finished a direct drive Dc 94 amp generator to charge up my battery bank to operate my inverter an DC...
3 Aug 15, 2011
1:31 am

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I found your videos on you tube and followed you here. I very interested in what your doing. I purchased a roll of carbon fiber and prepared a bath for nickel...
7 Jul 27, 2011
5:47 am

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I was putting together a ion vacuum gauge controller circuit and was making a 12 volt power transformer for 30 and 150 volt dc to run the gauge tube.I needed...
3 May 11, 2011
8:55 pm

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I am working on building a oil diffusion vacuum pump made out of stainless steel ,that is hard to cut with out a plasma cutter.So I put together a simple saw...
3 Apr 9, 2011
3:29 pm

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Beware of using some plastics in your nife battery projects.The last two batteries I built went sour,what I thought was HDPE separator was polyester and nylon...
1 Apr 2, 2011
5:21 pm

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Someone ask me about building a welder.I just built a spot welder and built a tig welder from scratch some 11 years ago and still use it today. It uses old...
1 Apr 2, 2011
2:28 pm

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Another battery hack if anybody cares.I bought a task force rechargeable screw driver from the local dumpster diver for 50 cents the 700 milli amp nicd's were...
1 Apr 2, 2011
2:20 pm

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I manage the apartment complex where my shop is and do night time security checks so I put together a super bright spot light.I picked up a halogen flood light...
1 Apr 2, 2011
1:56 pm

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Anybody interested on making a nickel iron from scratch I started a few weeks ago and placed some videos youtube on making the chemicals-Ed ...
16 Apr 1, 2011
3:48 pm

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I bought a makita rechargeable hammer drill kit that the drill was burned out for $10. It was powered with 3 amp lithiun-ion batterys and had 2 and a computer...
3 Mar 30, 2011
12:40 am

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I put together a small spiral wound nife battery today a 2by4and1/4 core on a 10 min charge lock amp test it was 14 amps that's 5 times higher than any I have...
3 Mar 21, 2011
12:20 pm

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Hi Ed. I was admiring your concentrator/propane setup. Where did you get the concentrator? Surely you did not buy it straight out from a medical supply co,...
12 Mar 19, 2011
6:38 am

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The old stun-gun link was out dated but now good again.Ed...
3 Mar 18, 2011
10:28 pm

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I folds I posted a link to edisons patents from 1900-1909 if you look close it has the nife patents with drawings.This is in the link section under edison...
3 Mar 17, 2011
10:51 pm

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In a attempt to make nickel hydroxide more conductive I mixed it with powered activated carbon 3% water and pressed it in a form at 12 tons of pressure.I...
1 Mar 17, 2011
3:45 pm

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For the folks who want to try this I did today.I places a pure nickel plate and a iron plate in a 20% sodium hydroxide solution and charged it and tested...
2 Mar 16, 2011
7:02 pm

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I did a little test today on constructing a fuel cell using nickel screen battery plates I have been making with a thin coating of Raney-nickel electroformed...
1 Mar 16, 2011
5:58 pm

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I have been working on my electroforming a little bit,I have got the amps.time and temperature for making nickel screen battery plates down.I grew two...
1 Mar 16, 2011
5:12 pm

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Jack have being in the spot welder trade what kind of tip would you recommend for spot welding nickel sheet metal.It is real [sticky] to the tips.thanks Ed...
3 Mar 15, 2011
6:55 pm

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I modified my larger spot welder tips.they were copper coated iron and sticking, so being new to spot welding I took thoes tips and drilled them out and...
1 Mar 14, 2011
8:44 pm

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hello ed ill visits here to get info from you as it may help me with many things not just battery s...
13 Mar 14, 2011
5:07 pm

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phase controller photo listed under triac power controller in the photo section.Ed...
1 Mar 14, 2011
3:50 pm

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Well I found out that nickel metal is hard to spot weld so I wound another microwave transformer today.I had a 900 watt on the welder and had a 1200 watt on...
4 Mar 13, 2011
6:06 pm

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I was asked to do a more detailed battery construction thing so I posted 16 photos of the positive core of my 5by10 in cylinder nife battery.I have made some...
1 Mar 12, 2011
1:50 pm

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