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I got this oh so glorious power supply from Freedgeek, which has most of what I need.

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So I don't need pretty much any of these cables.

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The only all I actually need is two 8 pin CPU power connectors, because I'm taking each

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one and going to each individual board.

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However, this one only has one, though I went and also grabbed a whole bunch of cable mod

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cables. So I grabbed a whole bunch of cable mod cables that someone was going to toss.

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So I have another CPU power connector here. So I'm going to deep in these, well either deep in it or just cut it and then splice

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it in. But I'll pull a whole bunch of 12 volt and ground lines, both from Molex and probably

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from this PCI-E connector, and just splice it all into this connector here.

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There's a very good chance that I might just be able to deep in all of this, though I don't

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have the tool on me.

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So I'll probably just end up snipping a whole bunch of stuff and heat shrinking down anything

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I don't need. So off to that, and also I'll be actually not these ones.

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So I have these six, six pin Molex connectors, which aren't actually what I'm going to be

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using. Although they probably were fine.

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My nice bunch of goodies. What I'm actually going to be using, if I can find them, ha, it's this.

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So this is actually a 10 pin Molex connector.

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But I'm just going to cut off two of the pins and just use that instead, assuming the polarity

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is correct, which I actually need to double check still, but I can do that right now.

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So I have my nice four pin CPU power connector and it's going to plug in, it's not going

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to be, it's not going to interface nicely with this. Actually labeled board, I have VCC on the bottom and then ground on the top, which if

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I look at the connector, I have exactly the opposite of that.

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Well, that sucks.

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Can I put it in backwards?

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No, I can't because Molex is keyed like that. Okay.

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Well, that complicates things a little bit.

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Okay, so that either means I deep in all of this, or I just force it in upside down,

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which is actually an option.

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I think I may end up just deep pinning all of them, yeah, because I just straight up

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got that backwards.

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Oh, shite, pardon my French.

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I know I got it wrong because PCIe has ground on the top and VCC on the bottom, which lines

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up with how I pinned it out, where CPU power is inverted.

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So that's where that issue came from, okay.

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I mean, I could get away with just using this and using the PCIe connector, but with this

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power supply, I'd still need to swap out one of the other cables.

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That will connect into a problem, but I still need power for both boards.

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And realistically, this one, which is the middle chunk capacitor, is going to be a high

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power board than this small one. I mean, just look at the size of the components, like I'm going to need to actively heat sink

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all of these. I'm also going to have to actively heat sink these so they don't go boom too.

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Ask me how I know.

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Okay, I'm going to actually go grab the deep pinning tool and see what I can make happen

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with the connections I have currently, and I'll grab some of the Molex tools as well.

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All right, so I went and grabbed all the tools I need in theory, couldn't find the deep pinning

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tool for Molex, but grabbed some nice crimps and a crimper, and then promptly realized the

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fact that I have two PCIe cables, and they are conveniently oriented the correct way

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to power each board. I'm pretty sure, not 100% sure, but pretty sure, each individual PCIe cable with only

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six conductors going should provide enough power for what I need, obviously to be confirmed.

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And if that is the case, these extra cables are just going to be chilling.

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And regardless, I'm probably going to trim off all of my, all of the unused cables and

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take the sense pin on the power supply and hook it up to an external switch on the outside

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of the case. So I can turn this thing on and off, so I can turn the control side on and off independently

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from the power side, because that just seems like a very good idea given the scope of what

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this project is very quickly becoming.

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But in the interim, I'm going to get this power supply and crap out of the way, and

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get some soldering going for these PCIe connectors, so I'm going to solder each one of these,

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one of these into each one of the boards, and then I can have some power, I may end

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up having to snip off these connectors here. TBD.

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But we shall see.

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We shall see.

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Fun times with me and doing the jank.

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Yeah, thanks for, thanks for watching if you're so inclined, and if this actually makes the

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final cut. I should honestly be a little bit surprised, but you never know.

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Let's do this chunky bit first.

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Okay, so I want to be taking this and go like, oh great, the pins don't line up.

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My favorite, the pins don't line up, and the whole size is incorrect.

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Man, I'm just having bad times with this recently.

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Even though this is supposed to be a standard pitch, okay, well, if in doubt, jank city,

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yo. Yeah, that's not going to fly, is it?

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Okay, well, that's an interesting complication that I wasn't anticipating.

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So, in terms of things I can do immediately regardless is desolder these connections.

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Okay, that's having it.

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Come on, you can do it, Haco.

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Maybe you can't.

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All right, time to bust out the alternative soldering iron.

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This is a nice little TS100 that I acquired not too long ago, and just generally speaking

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I've been very happy with it, although I don't quite see the chisel tip I was hoping to use.

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Oh, that one.

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Okay, so the full-on backup plan here, if all else really fails epically, is to just

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snip the conductors and direct solder them, though obviously I would really rather not

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do that. Okay, well, actually, I guess that's not that obvious.

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I would really rather not direct solder my conductors off of a power supply just in general.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Aha, there we go.

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Okay. Sorry, brief little detour, as I probably think that a cable is a different cable.

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Okay, let's just make this bad boy.

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Okay, so let's get this going.

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Coming. There we go.

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Okay, so let's take this one out first.

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So one of the downsides of this particular setup is I did not get a lot of thermal relief

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between these pins or these holes and the ground planes, which means if it's on this

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one, which means that they're not the same.

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The whole sizes are different between this board and this board, even though they're supposed

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to be the same. So I have the gloriously fun time of figuring out what the heck I'm going to do about that

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in the interim. I'm going to solder this one up because for the time being, this is the one of interest

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because I don't have the rest of the circuitry built to do the other one, yet this I'm actually

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going to do some fan because this is going to be a non-trivial amount of solder, not a

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small amount of soldering. Sorry for the audio.

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Speaking of those non-thermal relief ground planes, that's what I'm struggling with right

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now. So if I can get away with it, I'm actually going to flip this over and solder the other

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side too just to make sure it's a good connection because, yeah.

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Okay, now comes some fun stuff.

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So I get to do the ground sides. So I'm going to do a bad thing and just prank my soldering iron to make this easier.

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This thing can get hot. All right, one, one, three.

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Swits. So I'm actually going to flip this over and go from the bottom again at this higher time.

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Yeah, that looks a lot better. Okay, now I get to think about what the heck I'm going to do with this one.

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I guess I also get to try to find the other connector that I inevitably put somewhere

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done. There, okay. All right, back at it with bad ideas.

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So I have decided I'm going to take a stab at, oh, I have decided that I'm going to try

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to just thotter just the tips.

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Don't do this, ever. This is a terrible idea in every single way and is almost certainly not going to work

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properly. Yeah, I would not recommend this in any way, shape, or form.

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This is a terrible idea. Don't do this.

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But that's why I'm doing it.

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So you know why not to.

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Okay, so let's start with this one because this one is going to be the biggest pain in

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the world. Sorry, audio. This is going to be a time lapse most likely anyway.

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Yeah, this has got comfortably in the do not do this file.

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This is just dumb.

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Okay, well, oh yeah, also crank the temp if you're going to try this because you're just

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don't just just don't do this.

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Okay, it's working.

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Okay, no, I'm not getting decent. I am getting joints.

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These are not even close to what I would call decent joints.

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Not even a little bit, but it is technically working.

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Okay, well, I'm honestly kind of baffled at the moment because that shouldn't have worked.

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Wow. It worked. Holy moly.

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Okay, cool. That was a mind-bogglingly bad idea that somehow worked.

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Okay, to give you a little bit more of a close-up on what I was actually doing here.

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So I had, okay, I can probably show you one of this on this one here.

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So literally what I was doing was just taking the tips, just the tips and then having a solder

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fillet essentially around the entire tip, joining just this little tiny tippy piece around.

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And it actually fricking worked somehow and it's actually like vaguely stable.

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I would not trust this for a whole bunch of plugs and unplugged, but for what I'm doing,

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good enough.

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So now, honestly, legitimately baffled by that one.

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Okay.

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So, now what?

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Okay, I'm going to do some blast for me.

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Where are my sneakers?

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This is another one of those, don't do this. This power supply was destined for the Carpegio.

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Although of course, your power supplies are great.

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It's seen better days. I'm actually probably going to clean this up and give it a nice little blast of air.

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But yeah, this is not going to be used to power a computer ever again.

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So what I'm doing is I'm just going to snip these two conductors here.

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So this green one is what actually tells the power supply that it's connected to a motherboard

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if it's pulled to ground. So I'm pulling that off and then I'm pulling the ground off.

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And for right now, don't do this.

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I'm just going to solder them together. Eventually, I will pull both of these out to a switch.

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And this will supply me all of my power for...

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Come on, there we go. Actually, I guess I can just twist these together.

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Okay, easy there.

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Okay, so what I'm going to do here is just snip the back side.

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Because the amount of solder that's on this side is substantially less than on the other side,

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which means it'll be a lot easier to pull the conductors out through that side

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rather than trying to pull this gigantic blob of solder through the board this way.

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So hopefully that should make my life quite a bit easier.

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Hopefully. We'll see if that actually pans out.

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And then just last words. I hope not, but, you know,

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so with anything in this company,

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you say something and then you immediately eat your words.

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Okay, got some of it. Hey, there we go.

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So that wasn't pretty, but if it works, it works, yo.

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If it works, it works. Okay, next one.

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This one will hopefully be worse. It should be better actually.

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The 5V plane, or sorry, the VCC plane on this board is not quite as numerous as the ground planes.

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If I recall correctly, I have two completely independent ground planes on this thing.

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And these ground pins might actually be connected to other things as well.

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Actually, this bottom plane is a 5V plane.

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Where is it ground?

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No, I think it's, I think it's 15V, sorry, 12V, whatever VCC is.

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How the brain?

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Brain and not a having it today.

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Okay, so this is some good work.

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It's generally speaking pretty good.

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Obviously for stuff like that, that's not going to do it, but that's fine.

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I don't expect it to.

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Okay, so actually I'm going to quickly desolder this inductor as well.

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Come on.

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Okay.

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Come on. I actually have to make a couple of modifications to this particular board as well.

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So I went through a whole bunch of troubleshooting after I blew up two of these gate drivers,

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and spent a whole bunch of time doing simulations in LT-SPICE,

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which is essentially a circuit simulation software.

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So what I wasn't sure about was if I was like overcurrenting these chips or something like that,

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I'm pretty sure what was actually happening was they were just melting themselves to death.

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Originally I had a 2.2 microfarad capacitor here,

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and my assumption was that that was what was causing me the problem,

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and its capacity was just too big. Turns out what's most likely happened was actually my inductance was too small for the rest of my circuit,

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and my current was just spiking way too hard.

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So from the most recent iteration of my simulations,

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I'm actually going to pull this wire out, put the 2.2 microfarad cap back in,

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and then I just wound this toroid a few more times to get it up to 27 microhenrys up from like the 10,

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or something like that that was the first time, and I'm hoping that that should allow me to drive this second side properly.

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And once I actively cool these two chips,

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hopefully they won't find themselves in a fiery grave,

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but that's optimistic,

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because they are very small chips for the amount of power going through them,

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and I'm pretty sure if I had been thinking this through properly,

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I would have sourced the higher power versions,

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and I might have to, because there's a very good chance that they're going to just die as soon as I try to turn this thing on.

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But now I'm going to put this other cap back.

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So the one, the caps that I was using, or that I am using for the most part,

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I ended up sourcing from an also glorious place known as the Vancouver Hack Space,

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would highly recommend going out and exploring your local hack space

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if you have the opportunity, and if one exists.

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They are fantastic places to meet other makers and find stuff that normally you'd never find

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for any reasonable price,

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because often people will just bring in stuff that's kind of functional or just like old,

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but still very good.

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So the caps that I have, they're film capacitors, which are made by Philips,

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at least the ones that I'm using in this particular location,

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and they are very, very high quality capacitors.

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They'd probably go for several dollars a piece when they were new at least.

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Obviously, at this point in their lifespan, data sheets don't exist for them anymore,

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so I would take hazarded guess that, okay, this isn't hot enough.

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They're not going to sell for nearly that much anymore. Also, they're hilariously over-spec for what I'm using them for,

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because they're rated for like 600 volts, or something like that.

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I don't remember the exact number, but it's like hilariously large.

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And so, entertainingly over-spec for what I'm using them for,

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but come on, you can do it.

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Come on, get out of there. Hello, excuse me.

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Come on, why?

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Thank you. Why, that was so difficult.

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I have no idea.

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Now I have a not so fun time of trying to solder this in.

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Mostly because I don't want to try to go full tilt right off the cuff,

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given the amount of power I'm working with here.

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If something goes wrong, it can go very wrong very fast.

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So I have this standard power inlet.

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I have a bunch of connectors I'm going to take.

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So here's going to be my switch.

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I have one output side where I'm connecting the two different sides of the switch to my rectifier.

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So this can handle three phase, but obviously if you put two phases into it, that'll work too.

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This is actually out from, normally used for welders.

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So you have your three phases in, and then you have a negative and positive out, and that's DC out.

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So on this side is my two separate inlets.

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So these are fully isolated from each other.

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What this switch does is it switches from either having my single phase power in or my three phase power in.

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This I'm probably just going to leave disconnected initially because I don't want to try to connect this thing up to three phase right away.

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I'm going to take one of my ground conductors and take that third pin from this inlet and just connect it to the chassis.

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And then this is going to be my live in neutral wire that go into my switch.

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And then depending on which setting it's in, either this three phase is connected to the output or exclusive or the single phase is connected.

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So this allows me to switch between the two if I want to, when I want to, because that's going to happen.

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These are some chocktastic, I think 10 gauge.

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So three by 10, three by 12, 12 gauge.

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So these are 12 gauge wire.

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These won't die.

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None of the circuits that we have that I have access to would actually over, this is the wrong crimper.

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Well, that's unfortunate.

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Time to do the giant.

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Yeah, I will actually do this properly and not just use a pair of pliers to cut this.

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So, so during this up, I'm not going to lie.

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It is going to be kind of janky.

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Let's see. Is this going to just line up nicely?

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Looks like it might.

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Okay, well, I'm glad I looked at the other side of this first.

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So if you look over here, I have some hilariously tall spikes of solder that I'm going to have to get rid of if I'm going to have a chance and heck of actually getting this cap in.

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So I'm going to do some good wick.

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Good wick and get rid of that first before even considering getting the cap anywhere near here.

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Okay, top side is reasonable.

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Over to the bottom side.

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I'll do one pass on this side too, hoping that it'll get most of the solder out, but I suspect that that's just not going to happen.

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And I'm going to have to dance around trying to melt part of the solder or one half of the solder and rocking the capacitor in,

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which I'd really rather not do, but I don't think I'm going to have an option for this particular instance.

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Come on.

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Okay, well, it just didn't work.

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So though I'm trying to remove solder,

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so though I'm trying to remove solder here, putting a little bit of solder on the iron before you try to apply this down.

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This applies to doing any soldering in general.

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If you have some solder on the iron first,

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it allows temperature to go from the iron to whatever you're working on a lot easier.

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It's just weird thermodynamics shenanigans.

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Oh, that actually worked pretty well. Essentially, the molten solder wicks onto the part you're,

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and like interfaces with the part you're trying to melt or solder to a lot better than just the bare iron.

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So if you can do it,

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have your iron just like with a little bit of solder on the tip.

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Wherever you're trying to solder,

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your life will be a lot easier.

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Okay, well, I didn't quite do what I sought out to.

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And unfortunately, there's still some solder in those holes,

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which sucks, so you can see there's still some on this hole.

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This you can actually kind of see through. So that was what I was hoping for for both of them, but it did quite pan out.

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Now what I get to do is do some cleanup.

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Though this isn't fully necessary, I would rather just do it if I can.

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So this is just electronics grade, isopropyl alcohol.

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The Goodwick that I was using, it has flux integrated into the copper braid,

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which deposits when you're rubbing it off so you can kind of see that gross brown color.

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That's the flux that's in the copper braid.

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Also some of that would have been from the solder as well.

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It helps prevent oxide buildup when you're soldering and allows you to build a better joint.

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Or in the case of the copper braid, it allows it to wick better.

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But in general, I would suggest cleaning it off.

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Though depending on your circuit, it probably doesn't matter,

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especially if it's something like this, it really doesn't matter.

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Because this is a personal project, no critical functions,

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nothing that's super super super sensitive to specific conditions.

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So flux in general is not the most pleasant substance to work with.

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Like it's not great for you, is what I mean.

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Okay, so here comes the fun part.

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So here's my capacitor, it needs to go in there.

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Let's talk about rocking it in, which is going to be what I'm doing here.

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Essentially, I'm going to melt the solder on one side first

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and get that leg as far in as I can, and then try to get the other leg in after that.

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I'm actually going to use these like this here.

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This is going to be some jank, full disclosure.

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But you know, such is life. That's why you're here to watch me, or me and or Linus,

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and or whomever else struggle with some sketch.

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Okay, so let's get that solder in there.

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Come on, A-O. So there it popped through.

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Now I get to do the other side. Actually, I'm going to adjust this backside a little.

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A-O success. Okay, so I got it through almost sets.

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Yay!

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Now my life gets a little bit easier. Okay, so now I'm just going to clean up this solder joint.

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Because though this works, I'd rather get a slightly better connection

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than just like the jamming it through connection.

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Okay, so those joints are a lot cleaner now, and in general, just a lot better.

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So, now comes the next jank.

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I'm probably going to trim those leads off later, but that's a later endeavor.

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That's for these.

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Oh, wait, what?

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Did I part? Okay, time for some snoopy.

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Sorry, Molex. Love your indexing features, but bye.

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So it looks like I got this right on one of them and wrong on the other.

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But also, so I know I checked the spec.

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So this is not Molex. Not the same as PCIe.

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So I learned today the classic.

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Because why would a standard be standard, right?

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Alright, so I sourced this nice 4U rack mount case for, let's just say, very cheap from some online retailer.

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Sorry, not online retailer. Online marketplace, which is going to act as my enclosure for my induction heater.

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I have a lot of my other components around me, around here with me as well, including my capacitor, my smoothing capacitor for after the rectifier.

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My three phase rectifier that's designed for welders.

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A nice little switch that is going to act as my switch between three phase power in and single phase power in.

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I'll start off using single phase power in and eventually I want to allow myself the headroom to switch to three phase in the long run.

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Just to allow a lot more power and to heat up and melt a lot more metal.

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Both bigger and different types like possibly copper or aluminum to melt those down and possibly do some casting or something else like that in the future.

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With a lot of my components, I have over-respect them to heck and back to allow for that.

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So this thing is rated up to 400 volts.

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It's a humongous capacitor that'll work for way more power than I'm going to put through this.

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This switch is rated for 400 plus volts, up to even I think 600 in some instances.

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This rectifier is good for three phase power.

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I can actually see the reading on it, but I'm pretty sure it's good for 220 or higher.

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And then obviously I have my tank capacitor, which is hilariously large and hilariously over-specified.

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I ended up doing the math on this thing and in theory, in theory,

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we could put the entire power, all of the power in lab two through this capacitor and it wouldn't even overpower it.

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Which is just entertaining and would never actually happen, but you know.

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I also got some breakers. So I'm planning on plugging this thing into a 20 amp circuit just to give myself a little bit more headroom current-wise.

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And these are 16 amp breakers.

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They are designed for a higher voltage rating, but that should be fine for what I'm doing.

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And this is just so these trips in the machine instead of having the breakers trip in the wall.

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It's a lot easier and cheaper to replace these things than it would be to have someone come in and replace the actual breakers in our electrical service.

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Or in any electrical service that I'm working with.

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Though breakers do have a pretty long lifespan, they do have a finite number of trips.

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So just giving again more headroom and more space ever around it.

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But I am going to switch gears and just tear this thing down.

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Alright, so at least the bulk of this is torn out now.

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I noticed there's a whole bunch of front buttons in here that I would love to be able to use.

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Unfortunately, literally every single one of the buttons on the front panel of this case is a momentary button.

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Which pretty much just means I can't turn it on and leave it on.

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Like for example, if I wanted to turn on the power supply for the control electronics,

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I'd need to have a non-momentary switch that connects sense line on the power supply to ground to keep it on.

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But everything on the front here is momentary, so I can't use literally any of them for that functionality.

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So I'm probably going to end up tearing out every single one of these buttons

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and replacing them with something that I can actually use in the long run.

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Which is kind of really irritating, honestly.

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If any of these were non-momentary, I could just hook that up to the power supply

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and I'd be done with that part, but no, couldn't be easy.

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But this case also has some integrated fans.

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Now these particular fans have some nice grills on the front.

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I was like, oh, very promising. Maybe these things are going to be strong enough just to supply all the cooling for the entire system.

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They are rated for 12 volts DC and 0.38 amps.

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And I turned them on and they're reasonable.

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But honestly, I don't think they're going to be able to dissipate enough energy out of this system to be able to keep it going.

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So I may end up swapping these out for some other fans that I have sourced

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slash will source to act as cooling for the whole system.

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And I may also end up moving this bracket somewhere else in the case that's more convenient for me.

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Because at the moment, I'm probably going to have power in

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and my mains voltage side in the back of the case over here

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with all of my breakers and everything in the back and both of my power ins,

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which for right now we're going to be two 120 volt power plugs,

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something similar to what they had on here in this one.

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But ideally something a little more beefy because this thing is fluffy and just not great.

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I'll use two of those, one that's for the power supply for the control electronics

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and then one that I will probably end up plugging into my variac

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to allow me to control how much voltage is going into the power side of the system.

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Now go through the rectifier and into this gigantic capacitor

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and eventually into the inverter and then out through the tubes or the copper piping.

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But I have a little more tear down to do, but at this point it's mostly done

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and it just kind of have to start laying out where I think everything's going to end up.

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But for now, I'm tearing out a whole bunch of buttons and all that fun stuff

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and then trying to figure out my more or less final layout in the case.

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So I've done a little bit of sizing up for some of the stuff.

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This is my breaker bar with some din rail.

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This is I'm going to use to mount this to this area.

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I'll end up doing some cuts across these bars so this will stick out

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and I'll also actually end up chopping these down so it fits more or less flush with this top area

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and I'll have something that comes up from the bottom that blocks the bottom too

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just to ensure that the high voltage isn't easily accessible from outside.

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But I have to chop these down first.

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Eventually I'll be putting some brackets and risers or some bolts through here

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with spacers to hold this off and hold this against this piece, these pieces in here.

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And I may actually end up welding the bottom of these PCIe covers to the base

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just to beef up the contact between them to make sure that these breakers don't move around too much.

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For now, off to the bandsaw. So I like our bandsaw quite a bit since it's been tuned up and works a ton better.

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One unfortunate downside with cutting this particular rail is it leaves some disgustingly sharp corners and edges on here

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so I'm actually going to take this to our grinder and sanding setup and round off these edges

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just to make sure that there's nothing sharp that someone could cut themselves on if they weren't paying attention.

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Okay, so I ended up finding a very convenient place for the switch.

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It's particularly nice in this instance because I don't actually even need to remove these cross struts.

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These can actually just stay put and I can just clamp this onto those to give me all the mechanical strength I'd need for this switch.

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And this is again to switch in between using three phase power in versus two phase power in

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if I ever end up doing that. But initially this is just going to act as an on off switch for the circuit.

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So this is for the power side I guess to be more specific.

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So this is very convenient.

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Alright, and I have another switch.

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So that's perfect.

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I have my two 12 gauge wires coming out

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and these are going to be my power in for the time being.

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And then I'll pull power out at the bottom.

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So here is my two cables for my one 10 or single phase power in that goes into the side

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and then power is going to come out the bottom, go across.

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Go across immediately to the breaker and then that'll go into the rest of the circuit.

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Alright, so I have located where I want the breaker to sit.

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And of course I moved it very far away.

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So I have my breaker up my little breaker set.

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I want to put it right in here.

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So there on the other side and then I'll mount some holes in these two plates.

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That'll hold this entire assembly against here and I'll put some support brackets above and below.

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Just to make sure that no one can poke anything in there.

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And electrocute or give themselves a very nasty electric shock to be more specific.

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But to do that I have to remove some metal.

433
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:12,040
In comes small air powered rotary tool.

434
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:19,040
Which is kind of just a little bit nicer to handle and work with than an angle grinder.

435
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:25,040
Especially in somewhere this size. Though I may very swiftly regret that decision.

436
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:32,040
You'll certainly find out just as I find out here.

437
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:39,040
I'm just going to slap some cardboard back here just to protect that area up there.

438
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:44,040
Not that I would recommend doing this particular endeavor.

439
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:47,040
Because cardboard is kind of flammable.

440
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:51,040
And I'm going to be tossing some sparks.

441
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:58,040
Alright, time to see how immediately I regret this decision.

442
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:03,040
Very immediately. Shuffle shuffle shuffle shuffle.

443
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:08,040
So I need to actually be able to cut.

444
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:11,040
This needs to overhang.

445
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:15,040
And you can't see anything anymore.

446
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,040
Let's put you right there.

447
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:19,040
And now.

448
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:24,040
Make sure it's too smooth out of the way.

449
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:27,040
Alright.

450
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,040
Vroom vroom. Vroom vroom.

451
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,040
Okay, that's fun.

452
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:47,040
The more you know. So this turns out this little middle plate is literally just attached by this one screw.

453
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:53,040
So I very easily could have just undone that to remove it.

454
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:57,040
Details, details, details.

455
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:01,040
This one is attached to the rest of the plate though.

456
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:05,040
So that still would have had to come out anyway.

457
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:09,040
Oh, that's the classic. Okay.

458
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:10,040
Time to take out the top.

459
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,040
And it's gone. Fit check.

460
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,040
Fit check fit check fit check.

461
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:29,040
It fits, it fits, it fits, it fits. That's actually a relative, well, that's higher than I would like honestly.

462
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:42,040
But it'll do. So now I just have to make a bottom plate that covers this and then trim down the top to cover this top piece.

463
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:45,040
In the long run, I will need to access.

464
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:51,040
Actually, no, I won't. Once it's assembled, all of these can just be left as is.

465
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:55,040
So how we'll actually do this is I'll wire everything up.

466
00:50:55,040 --> 00:51:01,040
I'll drive fit everything, make sure that my wire lengths are long enough and there's enough stress relief in any of the cables.

467
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:16,040
I'm not going to damage anything. Then I will do the wiring, connect this to the plate, something like that with these extra little slots in the din rail.

468
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:22,040
And then the covers will just be there right off the cuff.

469
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:26,040
So I won't have to worry about anyone contacting any of these things in here.

470
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:32,040
This actually gives me quite a bit of working room in the bottom to make sure that I have enough strain relief in the cable.

471
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:38,040
So now I'm just going to round off those edges and then should be good to go.

472
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:44,040
Alright, so this thing's all closed up. I'm calling it for the day because it's late o'clock.

473
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:51,040
Hopefully I'll be able to get the rest of the power electronics more or less laid out in here.

474
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:55,040
And then I can start figuring out where I want all the control circuitry to end up.

475
00:51:55,040 --> 00:52:02,040
And then I get to start figuring out where all the water cooling is going to go, which is going to be a mess.

476
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,040
That's certainly going to be a heck of a time.

477
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:10,040
And probably not going to be a Linus thing because I would like to have a boss at the end of this video still.

478
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:17,040
And there's enough stuff in here that if it's powered on and I didn't do my job correctly, it could kill you.

479
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:21,040
So that's fun. Anyway, to the next day.

480
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:28,040
Something I realized while I was about to try to weld up a couple of these together to make a block for this is

481
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:34,040
if I actually just cut one more of these out, I can center the breakers and have material on both sides.

482
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:40,040
So I don't have to have a top piece and a bottom piece, which will just make my life quite a bit easier in the long run.

483
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:45,040
I'll end up having to chop off a bit more of the material in here with an angle grinder.

484
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:48,040
But honestly, that's really not that big of a deal.

485
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:56,040
I'll probably end up taking this side off here and removing this one rather than going this way and moving closer to the inputs

486
00:52:56,040 --> 00:53:00,040
just to give myself space for a bigger input down the road.

487
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,040
But now off to the welder.

488
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:10,040
I know you're not going to be able to see a ton of this, but I just want to get this welded up and have these relatively straight.

489
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:20,040
It doesn't matter too much because at least from what I can tell, there's a fair bit of wiggle room in the actual box or in the actual case.

490
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:26,040
So I can have them relatively close together and still be a-okay.

491
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:32,040
But time for 10 nips.

492
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:45,040
Also be careful. Even if it doesn't look hot, it's probably ridiculously hot after welding.

493
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:50,040
Anything that you're welding is going to be smoking.

494
00:53:51,040 --> 00:54:00,040
Ask me how I know that that is a thing because I totally haven't done it to myself several times.

495
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:07,040
Or I just burned the bejesus out of my hand without realizing that it's going to be really hot.

496
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:29,040
Now that mystery metal coating is off, I can go up and finish welding along this full seam.

497
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:35,040
Looking at how this first weld panned out, I added some filler material in all three of these.

498
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:43,040
I also don't have any filler material that's properly thin enough for this thickness of weld.

499
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:49,040
I ended up just kind of welding these two pieces together without any filler at all,

500
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:54,040
which might be what I try to do for the rest of this because that seemed to pan out a lot better.

501
00:54:54,040 --> 00:55:02,040
I'm going to start by trying to join these top pieces together just to give a little bit more structure to the top section.

502
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:08,040
Then I'll do a full weld along this entire seam just for extra structure.

503
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:14,040
Then eventually I'll take out this chunk in the middle with an angle grinder or something similar to that.

504
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:18,040
Back to the welding. My favorite.

505
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:26,040
That wasn't atrocious. It was not good.

506
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:30,040
To any welder, you know I am not doing very well.

507
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:35,040
But for what I need, it's good enough.

508
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:43,040
I may not do the full joint across because, holy moly, is this thing warping like nobody's freaking business.

509
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:47,040
Just because it's so thin.

510
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:53,040
And honestly, for what I need this thing to do, this is probably good enough.

511
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:59,040
Like that's not going to give. Did some nice sandblasting and it's very shiny.

512
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:08,040
It's still warped as heck, but yeah, this is thin enough that that's really not that big of a deal.

513
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:13,040
Let's see, so I've got a nice warp in that direction.

514
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:19,040
That's probably going to be a good part from that.

515
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:24,040
You know what, let's just see if it lines up before I mess around with that too much.

516
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:32,040
If it doesn't line up, I'm going to have to readdress my, figure out another plan.

517
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:38,040
Okay, let's pop that out. Take that out.

518
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:41,040
Put that down.

519
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:47,040
Holy moly, is that bent a heck?

520
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:51,040
Oh, that sounded like a weld breaking.

521
00:56:51,040 --> 00:57:00,040
Because it probably was a weld breaking.

522
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:05,040
Aha, I found a problem.

523
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:11,040
So the bottom of each one I put too close together so it won't fit into all three slots.

524
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:16,040
That sucks.

525
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:23,040
I'm with the tops. The tops will work honestly, like they do not have to be great.

526
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:28,040
If it lines up with two, that's way more than good enough.

527
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:35,040
So I'm going to take this to the hammering plate, better known as our welding bench.

528
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:38,040
Actually our grinding bench because it's way thicker.

529
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:42,040
Give it a good couple of whacks to flatten it out.

530
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:48,040
And then I'm going to take some of these edges, these bottoms and just thin them out.

531
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:53,040
Just to make my life a little bit easier so I don't have to re-weld it.

532
00:57:53,040 --> 00:58:00,040
Because the nice thing is I can just make these thinner and honestly for this it really doesn't matter.

533
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:03,040
It is really quite irrelevant.

534
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:10,040
I shortened up all of these tabs a little bit and gave these a good couple of whacks to really get it a lot flatter.

535
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:15,040
It's still not flat, but again for this it really doesn't matter.

536
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:19,040
And hey, oh that'll do don't care.

537
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:30,040
Sorry Shrek. But I have one, two and a bit roughly kind of screw holes I can put into.

538
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:36,040
But no one is never going to bolt to anything regardless because I promptly removed that part without realizing it.

539
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:45,040
So time to take some more angle grinder slash cut off disc to this, trim all of these down.

540
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:55,040
And then, yeah get in there ever so slowly.

541
00:58:55,040 --> 00:59:06,040
Just for sanity's sake.

542
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:18,040
Alright, get to use some of my new favorite tools.

543
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:21,040
Our air tools are working really well for me honestly.

544
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:29,040
I'm pretty stoked with how well that's gone or with how well they're actually suiting me and what I need.

545
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:41,040
But for anyone who's taking notes, these are all from the wood PC way back.

546
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:11,040
Those who really don't know the wood PC was actually the first case mod I literally ever did.

547
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:19,040
Yeah, the first fit I ever did was at work with a person from Germany and it was super fun.

548
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:25,040
But yeah, that was an absolute blast.

549
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:30,040
I should go close to this.

550
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:42,040
Yes, yes, yes.

551
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:50,040
This is going to be a tall glass of B. Roy Jenkins.

552
01:00:50,040 --> 01:01:01,040
Okay, good enough.

553
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:09,040
Oh man, this thing's getting freaking heavy.

554
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:21,040
Particularly a fan of this, but you know, such as life.

555
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:25,040
Okay, I don't like how many metal shavings I put in there.

556
01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:35,040
After a tremendous amount of jank, most of the holes cut out.

557
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:41,040
Time to see if it actually frickin fits because that's kind of the whole point.

558
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:46,040
All right, so my my gap here looks really big.

559
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:53,040
However, my gap here doesn't, which I'm just now realizing.

560
01:01:53,040 --> 01:02:00,040
That's why.

561
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:03,040
Okay.

562
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:13,040
Well, that's kind of entertaining in a really sad way.

563
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:25,040
Frickin whoops.

564
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:41,040
I think I'm just going to go with it.

565
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:48,040
I think I'm just going to go with it and mount it sideways because it's going to be a lot easier to just leave it as is.

566
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:54,040
Then try to fix this gong show because I don't want a whole bunch of space around the breaker.

567
01:02:54,040 --> 01:03:03,040
Because that means that you can go in and touch the frickin screws, which are, I'm pretty sure, not certain connected to the little frickin wires.

568
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:07,040
While it's on and closed, which I really don't want.

569
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:18,040
So, time to figure out how to mount the din rail to this in the wrong orientation, I guess.

570
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:27,040
Not ideal, but it'll work. Let's go into a little adventure of why I should have measured more times than I cut.

571
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:38,040
So initially, I looked at this hole right here and was like, oh, that's like perfect because it was one of the mounts originally for a piece that was right here and eventually went away.

572
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:49,040
So I cut it out bigger so I could use this nice little flat nut thing tube, whatever, can't remember the name of it, so it would actually fit in.

573
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:58,040
Unfortunately for me, we don't have any screws that are long enough to match.

574
01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:02,040
So, okay, cool. Well, I guess I'm boned there.

575
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:09,040
I ended up doing more searching for a bunch of other longer bolts and we don't actually have any here that are M4.

576
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:22,040
So that's fun. I then drilled a lower hole here, which works perfectly and I can actually screw it in because the extra space from here to here actually lets this mate with the screw.

577
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:25,040
So that one works perfectly.

578
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:31,040
Came to the conclusion that, okay, cool, so I will need to put another hole up here.

579
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:36,040
Unfortunately, it was probably going to interfere with this weld, which would suck.

580
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:46,040
So I was like, okay, let's put it up as high and as close to this as we can, which works other than the fact this thing has a giant freaking lip on it.

581
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:52,040
So now I need to trim off part of this so it'll sit flat and I can actually screw into it.

582
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:56,040
The struggle is so real.

583
01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:59,040
My goodness, made a sad realization just now.

584
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:08,040
Apparently, I didn't tighten the freaking nut on the bottom of this switch properly for at least this phase.

585
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:13,040
So it just fell off, which is kind of really bad.

586
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:29,040
I'm going to have to take this apart and access the bottom of this switch in order to resolve this.

587
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:32,040
Oh, I just had a big realization.

588
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:40,040
I should rotate this switch 90 degrees because then I can actually access all of the screw terminals.

589
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:57,040
Okay, I was going to see if I can just take this entire metal plate or metal like GPI PCIe bracket set out because I think I can if I just remove a bunch of these screws and I think this entire plate will just come off.

590
01:05:57,040 --> 01:06:08,040
But with the sudden realization that I just had, I need to take this switch off again, which means taking all of the freaking screws and crap that holds it in.

591
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:18,040
Taking them all off, taking this entire thing out, rotating it 90 degrees so I can access all of the screw terminals all the time and then going again.

592
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:25,040
That will mean getting access to whatever side is on the bottom is going to suck.

593
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:33,040
Actually, right now I'm wishing I had mounted this higher up, but too little too late on that one.

594
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:40,040
So time for a little more time-lapse and a little more repeating work I've already done several times.

595
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:52,040
Woo! While I was tightening down all of these screws again just to make sure that nothing comes loose ever again because that would be really bad.

596
01:06:52,040 --> 01:07:04,040
I cracked the switch. So I cracked the plastic housing on the back for the black phase, which is going to be one of the live phases.

597
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:18,040
So now it clicks around whenever I move the cable because it's no longer holding it strong, like it's no longer holding it properly anymore.

598
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:39,040
That's not ideal. Again, I think it's probably okay, but this is starting to get towards I only run one phase at a time and I just rewire it if I ever need to up how many phases I'm running.

599
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:44,040
So I think that might just kill this switch.

600
01:07:44,040 --> 01:08:03,040
Probably remove this wire, the red phase entirely, and shift over the black phase, all of that wiring just for the sake of ease of reference.

601
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:13,040
I'll still run three phase out probably, actually.

602
01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:19,040
Okay, I'm just going to use the red phase out entirely for now.

603
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:25,040
That's extra complication for the entire circuit.

604
01:08:25,040 --> 01:08:30,040
So the screw is actually biting very well.

605
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:42,040
What actually happened was, so if I understand this correctly, this screw bites into this sheet piece of metal behind it, not into this plastic housing.

606
01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:55,040
What actually cracked was as I was torquing this, this piece of bent metal goes into some of the internals, which means I probably need to check the status of this switch to see if it still works properly.

607
01:08:55,040 --> 01:09:04,040
One second while I find some testing equipment.

608
01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:09,040
So a nice multimeter, or a pretty good multimeter.

609
01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:22,040
Flick 117, true RMS meter, but honestly it can use whatever the F needs to be used for this because it really just needs to tell me if this thing is still behaving as a switch.

610
01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:29,040
It should. Being that it turns off when it's off and it turns on when it's on.

611
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:34,040
I need to find where I ended up putting the post.

612
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:37,040
Oh, it's in here. Oh yeah, it's attached.

613
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:43,040
Okay, so let's see what state it's in right now.

614
01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:49,040
So, doot doot. Yeah, I know it's not perfect, but for what I'm doing it's fine.

615
01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:55,040
These are both input terminals. So if anything is shorting, I have a very big problem.

616
01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:59,040
No, thank goodness. That's very good news.

617
01:09:59,040 --> 01:10:03,040
Okay, so that's shorting as I would expect.

618
01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:07,040
And that and that perfect.

619
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:11,040
I don't want to make sure these aren't connected.

620
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:14,040
That would be really bad.

621
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:18,040
Okay, so far so reasonable.

622
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:25,040
One more little check-to-check to do first before saying it works.

623
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:31,040
Wow, that is really hard to turn.

624
01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:39,040
Okay, so now it's in the other state which should have this two-phase power connected into the output side.

625
01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:44,040
Essentially it just shorts these two, this side or this side, not both.

626
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:48,040
Again, continuity check.

627
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:52,040
Looks good, looks good, looks good.

628
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:56,040
Let's just do a little resistance check as well.

629
01:10:56,040 --> 01:11:03,040
Just for completeness, 0.4.

630
01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:06,040
That seems a little high.

631
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:09,040
0.2, that's fine.

632
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:14,040
0.2, that's actually marginally concerning.

633
01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:29,040
Okay, yeah, that was 0.2 as well. And then I will swap it back and just check that the other side, the resistances on the other side are roughly comparable to that.

634
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:33,040
Okay, contact resistance, have mercy on me please.

635
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:38,040
So, 0, 0.

636
01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:47,040
I need to go back and check the other side, 0.

637
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:55,040
Realistically what I was probably measuring was just, actually can you even see the multimeter?

638
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:58,040
Not really.

639
01:11:58,040 --> 01:12:01,040
Sorry about that.

640
01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:06,040
Okay, you probably can't read it, but just trust me.

641
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:09,040
So, what was probably the issue?

642
01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:13,040
0.1, yeah, contact resistance.

643
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:18,040
0.1 and 0.1.

644
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:27,040
If you don't push hard enough, sometimes there's just a little bit of space and resistance in between the metal contact and the metal thing you're trying to measure.

645
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:32,040
And if you're measuring really small resistances, that can actually make a huge difference.

646
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:37,040
So, like if I don't press very hard at all, okay, well it's still low.

647
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:42,040
But let's see.

648
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:56,040
See how that, it's just jumping around a whole bunch. It's just, you want to make sure you're breaking through any like random oxide layers or gunk or whatever that's on the surface of your conductor.

649
01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:59,040
If you're trying to measure resistance.

650
01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:02,040
Unless you're trying to measure the resistance out of the gunk.

651
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:10,040
But that's a whole different ball game and honestly you probably shouldn't use a multimeter for that.

652
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:18,040
A better way to do that would be like an ESD tester or something like that where it generates a really high voltage and determines how quickly it breaks through and breaks down.

653
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:26,040
That's a much better way of trying to test like surface resistance rather than like actual resistance between metals.

654
01:13:26,040 --> 01:13:32,040
But anyway, now that, oh, did I just tighten that down and then not have the, yes I did, okay.

655
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:37,040
So I'm just going to ignore the red phase because too much work.

656
01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:45,040
At least out of the switch because I'm going to have to come back in here eventually regardless.

657
01:13:45,040 --> 01:13:50,040
And I kind of just don't care enough.

658
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:59,040
Yeah, that one. Okay, so let's slap this down, ponder my life choices.

659
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:02,040
Do I just want to put that in? Yeah, I kind of do.

660
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:11,040
I'm just going to put this back in. So I managed to get this more or less wired up and connected to the input, albeit a little bit sketchily.

661
01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:14,040
But you know, part of this isn't sketchy.

662
01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:20,040
Also, I am not an electrician. Do not follow what I'm doing.

663
01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:25,040
I am going to be the only one using this or I will be around whenever it is being used.

664
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:30,040
So if something decides to go wrong, I am the person who has wired it.

665
01:14:30,040 --> 01:14:40,040
I will be around it and I will have more or less a solid idea of what to do if something decides to go horribly wrong or something disconnects.

666
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:44,040
I'm doing my best to be as safe as possible.

667
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:47,040
That's why I have some 16 amp breakers in here.

668
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:59,040
I plan to plug this into a 20 amp service, 20 amp 120 to start or 110 whatever lower power, lower voltage.

669
01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:07,040
So this should trip before anything in the wall trips should anything upstream from here go wrong downstream from here go wrong.

670
01:15:07,040 --> 01:15:13,040
Sorry. If anything upstream goes wrong, the breakers in the building should trip.

671
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:21,040
Obviously the plan is to never have that happen, but I'm planning on grounding everything as you should.

672
01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:28,040
Making sure that the ground that comes in from either power service that's going to be running to here, whether the high power side or the low power side.

673
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:36,040
Those grounds are connected to the chassis, which is not ideal in general because that means I'm going to have two separate grounds.

674
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:41,040
They're connected together at this point creating a very large ground loop.

675
01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:44,040
We'll see if I end up having to address that or not.

676
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:58,040
I may end up having to isolate the chassis ground on the power supply for the low power side from the high power.

677
01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:02,040
I am connecting the high power ground to the chassis.

678
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:15,040
That is just happening. Technically speaking, it doesn't really matter which one is connected as long as one is, but I'm planning on connecting the high power ground to it just because I can.

679
01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:23,040
So the next thing I need to do is this is my full list of bridge rectifiers.

680
01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:36,040
So it's a three phase rectifier, takes three phase AC, connects it or pumps out DC from the AM minus and the KM plus.

681
01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:39,040
So this thing is going to need some cooling.

682
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:50,040
I was debating using some other random heat sinks that I had, but I think this one is probably going to work the best as long as I make sure that the air flow path is flowing through this heat sink.

683
01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:57,040
I don't believe this should overheat. If it does overheat in the long run, then, you know, I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

684
01:16:57,040 --> 01:17:08,040
But for now, I need to drill some holes, make some connections here and then plop some thermal paste or thermal compound down in between this nice face here and this face here.

685
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:15,040
I'll probably rough this up as well just to kind of get rid of all of the bumps and nicks and crap that have built up on this over time.

686
01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:28,040
And I'll bolt this down and make sure that the fins are in the direction of the main air flow, which I think is going to be either this direction or out here based on the fact that most of this back is currently solid.

687
01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:34,040
And then I will figure out a way to mount this to the chassis itself.

688
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:41,040
While I was looking to try to mount this rectifier, I drilled a couple of holes, lined it all up. This all looks good.

689
01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:49,040
I was looking at connecting it in. There were a couple of thoughts I had. One of them was tapping this piece of aluminum, but I really don't like that.

690
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:54,040
Aluminum threads are just, they work, but they're not great.

691
01:17:54,040 --> 01:18:00,040
Another thought was just to have a nut on the back here and tighten it down from the top.

692
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:04,040
And then I had a dumb idea.

693
01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:09,040
We have some heat set inserts that are designed to go into plastic.

694
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:20,040
We also have an arbor press. So I drilled out this hole a bit bigger than I would expect and the bottom of the heat set insert fits in.

695
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:28,040
So I'm going to try pressing it and quickly probably realize how stupid of an idea this is.

696
01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:38,040
I'm going to put a nice little stop on the other side of here, just a piece of steel so it doesn't push through too far because it would, which I don't want.

697
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:43,040
I want it to press in a little bit. This is really dumb and probably not going to work.

698
01:18:43,040 --> 01:18:46,040
But if it does work, heck yeah, bud.

699
01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:53,040
We'll see. I may actually end up drilling this hole out even a little bit bigger because this is not looking like it's probably going to work.

700
01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:58,040
But I'll try first and then fix it later.

701
01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:03,040
It's not ideal. So I've got a couple blocks of aluminum.

702
01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:06,040
Tactics, my stops.

703
01:19:06,040 --> 01:19:21,040
And let's just get you a little closer into this adventure of horrible ideas.

704
01:19:21,040 --> 01:19:42,040
In this episode, hoping that things don't go absolutely flying literally everywhere because there's a reasonable chance that this is going to fail hilariously and very not great.

705
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:47,040
Okay, so on the press.

706
01:19:47,040 --> 01:19:52,040
Oh, yeah, that's not that's not happening.

707
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:55,040
Oh, wait.

708
01:19:55,040 --> 01:20:00,040
Oh, wait, it bit.

709
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:03,040
Okay. Okay. Wow.

710
01:20:03,040 --> 01:20:06,040
I'm a bit surprised.

711
01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:12,040
Okay. Let me qualify that it bit a little.

712
01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:18,040
Yeah, I can see where it where it actually bit into the aluminum.

713
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:25,040
So I'll give it another go just for kicks.

714
01:20:25,040 --> 01:20:29,040
Because if this actually worked, that would be very entertaining.

715
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:33,040
The other option here is actually just to pull it through with an with a bolt.

716
01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:54,040
And I may end up taking that approach if assuming if slash when this doesn't work.

717
01:20:54,040 --> 01:21:01,040
Well, I'll be damned that actually kind of worked.

718
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:13,040
So it's about halfway through that part, which means I can give it another whack or two and it'll be well, I mean, it's permanently in there now.

719
01:21:13,040 --> 01:21:23,040
Let's let's say that I don't want to undersell what just actually happened.

720
01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:33,040
Yeah, that that that works.

721
01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:38,040
That's entertaining.

722
01:21:38,040 --> 01:21:43,040
Did not think that that would actually work.

723
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:48,040
Also, as I will say five bajillion times on this project, this is dumb.

724
01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:52,040
There are way easier ways to do what I'm doing.

725
01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:55,040
It's just fun.

726
01:21:55,040 --> 01:22:02,040
Why am I doing this if not to have a hell of a good time messing around with Intel's money?

727
01:22:02,040 --> 01:22:15,040
Thank you Intel for enabling my gong show.

728
01:22:15,040 --> 01:22:20,040
That actually works.

729
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:26,040
That's dumb. So I just whacked the piece of aluminum with the ever press a whole bunch of times.

730
01:22:26,040 --> 01:22:29,040
And I was like, oh, yeah, it's working super duper well.

731
01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:35,040
Like I have the heat set inserts like embedded into the top surface of the aluminum.

732
01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:46,040
Oh, it's the top surface of the aluminum that the side that the direct fire needs needs to connect to.

733
01:22:46,040 --> 01:22:54,040
So in my excitement that it worked, I shot myself in the photo a little bit.

734
01:22:54,040 --> 01:23:00,040
So I think I'm actually just going to toss this on the Tormach and just face this off.

735
01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:11,040
So close, but yet so far. And now that I'm back with a freshly faced off area, whoops, so close, but yet so far.

736
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:16,040
This will actually meet relatively OK to this now.

737
01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:21,040
The keen item on you might notice that the surface finish on this looks like poop.

738
01:23:21,040 --> 01:23:25,040
That has nothing to do with the Tormach and everything to do with me being lazy.

739
01:23:25,040 --> 01:23:30,040
So this part when I bandsawed it is not at all square.

740
01:23:30,040 --> 01:23:36,040
So these two surfaces are not parallel to each other. So when I was clamping, it only actually held down like this part,

741
01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:43,040
which means this was all floppy and while I was machining and I got a ton of chatter on here.

742
01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:50,040
For this, it really doesn't matter. I'm probably going to rough this up with a bit of Scotch Brite anyway and then apply some thermal compound down.

743
01:23:50,040 --> 01:23:53,040
But just in case anyone was wondering.

744
01:23:53,040 --> 01:24:02,040
Now I'm starting to look at the gigantic capacitor and the IGBTs and how they're actually going to end up fitting in there

745
01:24:02,040 --> 01:24:10,040
and coupling to each other because this cap needs to be connected to these two pins on both of these IGBTs.

746
01:24:10,040 --> 01:24:17,040
There's also this cap here, which kind of just limits out and tries to eliminate as much inductance as possible on the quick switching

747
01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:22,040
right when it engages so it can pump as much current as possible immediately.

748
01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:27,040
I had a couple of thought issues.

749
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:35,040
So originally when I had cat it up the brackets to connect these together, I had it schemed.

750
01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:45,040
So either this cap would be oriented like this or something like this or maybe like the IGBTs would be oriented up here or something.

751
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:48,040
Or sorry, up here or something like that.

752
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:54,040
But looking at the layout that I have in this case and how much height I have, that's just not going to work.

753
01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:59,040
This cap is going to have to be located in this orientation.

754
01:24:59,040 --> 01:25:03,040
Just an ideal but, you know, life.

755
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:07,040
Which means I have a couple of potential options.

756
01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:12,040
The first of which is trying to bend some of the copper plate that I have.

757
01:25:12,040 --> 01:25:19,040
So I ended up collecting this pre-bent piece of copper that's like a quarter of an inch thick or so.

758
01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:25,040
I tried whacking it with a hammer to see if I could bend it anymore here and nothing happened at all.

759
01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:32,040
So this is not going to be an option because we don't have, I don't have access to the equipment to try to bend copper this thick.

760
01:25:32,040 --> 01:25:35,040
Certainly not this copper at least.

761
01:25:35,040 --> 01:25:38,040
So this is out the door.

762
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:48,040
By extension and the other combination of flat into bend or into straight is going to be very difficult using purely copper.

763
01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:51,040
Because I can't bend it.

764
01:25:51,040 --> 01:26:00,040
But I had a realization that oh maybe, just maybe I can use these aluminum brackets that we have or that I have access to.

765
01:26:00,040 --> 01:26:12,040
Mount those onto each pin and then maybe just maybe the height of the copper would line up and it pretty much does almost bang on.

766
01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:22,040
So that's going to be my game plan is I need to cut down some of the hilarious piles of copper that I have collected.

767
01:26:22,040 --> 01:26:30,040
Machine out some holes to connect these together and make sure they are point together.

768
01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:35,040
Because the water block I bought for these is not that much bigger than these.

769
01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:40,040
So I don't have a ton of space to fiddle around with for clearance between these.

770
01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:45,040
And then I need to make the bars long enough that it extends out to about here.

771
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:52,040
Then I can mount. I may end up bolting this down.

772
01:26:52,040 --> 01:27:01,040
But I also may end up just straight soldering the copper to the aluminum just because that's going to be a way better electrical and thermal connection.

773
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:05,040
Although in this particular location the thermal connection is kind of relevant.

774
01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:15,040
But you know when I'm working with the power that I'm working with any kind of additional electrical resistance can actually make a really big difference to making things get ridiculously hot.

775
01:27:15,040 --> 01:27:27,040
So I'm probably going to test out I'm going to test out trying to solder some aluminum like this to a piece of copper to see how much I hate myself trying to do it.

776
01:27:27,040 --> 01:27:31,040
That's going to be a fun map gas experiment.

777
01:27:31,040 --> 01:27:41,040
I'll probably end up taking this piece and trying to solder on one of these or something similar-ish to this just to see how that works out.

778
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:48,040
And I'll end up popping over to the welding bench and doing some fire brick shenanigans which will be good fun.

779
01:27:48,040 --> 01:27:52,040
So off to that I go. Over to the welding bench.

780
01:27:52,040 --> 01:28:11,040
I have some Scotch Brite just to rough up and clean up all the oxides that are on both the copper and on the aluminum to make sure that the solder has a reasonable chance of actually gripping.

781
01:28:11,040 --> 01:28:20,040
This is somewhat a process that you really want to be thorough and make sure you've really cleaned everything within an inch of its life.

782
01:28:20,040 --> 01:28:24,040
Otherwise you're going to not get a good bond at all.

783
01:28:24,040 --> 01:28:32,040
So you can see that this is nice and shiny. This obviously not so much. This has been oxidizing for a very long time.

784
01:28:32,040 --> 01:28:44,040
Now these naturally come to the best of my knowledge with a decent anodized layer on them which just, you know, in addition to natural oxidation which aluminum does it creates its own protective layer.

785
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:50,040
This has an additional anodization step that makes that oxide layer thicker.

786
01:28:50,040 --> 01:28:58,040
And aluminum oxide specifically stuff that's used for anodization is actually really tough.

787
01:28:58,040 --> 01:29:02,040
And it kind of has a little bit of a dull finish on it.

788
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:05,040
See if I can actually even operate it.

789
01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:14,040
So I'm not having a ton of luck. I'm actually going to take this over to the belt grinder and hit it there.

790
01:29:14,040 --> 01:29:19,040
Because I know that this will take it off.

791
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:30,040
This is a great way to show what I was talking about.

792
01:29:30,040 --> 01:29:38,040
So you see how over here this is shiny. Like properly shiny. That's the bare aluminum metal.

793
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:43,040
Whereas this stuff here, this is aluminum oxide. Specifically this is likely anodized on.

794
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:51,040
And I'm pretty, I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that the anodized layer might actually be harder than this scotch bright.

795
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:54,040
So it isn't able to break through it very easily.

796
01:29:54,040 --> 01:29:57,040
But taking it to the belt grinder, it's a lot more abrasive.

797
01:29:57,040 --> 01:30:02,040
And I think these are actually aluminum oxide sanding dis, sanding belts.

798
01:30:02,040 --> 01:30:05,040
So this will take it off without too much difficulty.

799
01:30:05,040 --> 01:30:09,040
So I'm going to take this back, take off the rest of this heavy oxide.

800
01:30:09,040 --> 01:30:15,040
And then I'll touch it up with the scotch bright, give them both an alcohol wipe down and then start trying to solder this together.

801
01:30:15,040 --> 01:30:23,040
Nice and shiny. So if I move this around in the light, it'll be shiny in different amounts depending on the orientation it's in.

802
01:30:23,040 --> 01:30:28,040
That's just because I was taking different angles and different passes to make sure I got all the anodization off.

803
01:30:28,040 --> 01:30:38,040
But now I'm going to rough it up a little bit more, make sure it's all nice and clean.

804
01:30:38,040 --> 01:30:42,040
Make sure all of that oxidation is gone.

805
01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:49,040
This little alcohol wipe. And then I'm moving this bottle of alcohol extraordinarily far away from me,

806
01:30:49,040 --> 01:30:57,040
including this rag that I just doused in a hilariously flammable liquid right next to a torch and a hot brick

807
01:30:57,040 --> 01:31:01,040
and all kinds of other things that are about to be extraordinarily high.

808
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:05,040
Oh yeah, so there's all the dust and grossness that came off of the copper.

809
01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:11,040
Second pass is a lot more reasonable.

810
01:31:11,040 --> 01:31:14,040
In terms of the aluminum, I've already kind of cleaned it once.

811
01:31:14,040 --> 01:31:18,040
I'm fairly sure that it's purple, someone will probably correct me in the comments,

812
01:31:18,040 --> 01:31:24,040
that isopropyl actually causes some kind of additional take off of material from aluminum,

813
01:31:24,040 --> 01:31:34,040
because I've had times where I'm wiping aluminum down consistently and I'll consistently get a dirty colored rag when I'm doing it with isopropyl alcohol.

814
01:31:34,040 --> 01:31:41,040
So, I don't know, some weirdness.

815
01:31:41,040 --> 01:31:51,040
All right, this I'm fairly sure is flux, which will just make my life a lot less painful.

816
01:31:51,040 --> 01:31:56,040
Sunshade just prevents oxidization while the two metals are really, really hot,

817
01:31:56,040 --> 01:32:03,040
because as you heat something up, it will oxidize way faster.

818
01:32:03,040 --> 01:32:11,040
If there's anyone who's ever seen very hot steel or any other very hot metal, they'll know.

819
01:32:11,040 --> 01:32:19,040
And they can tell you that, oh boy, does it get an oxide layer real freaking fast.

820
01:32:19,040 --> 01:32:29,040
Okay, now here comes the adventure part, because I don't know if this is going to work.

821
01:32:29,040 --> 01:32:36,040
So I have some map gas, methyl, ath, acetyl, propane or something ridiculous like that.

822
01:32:36,040 --> 01:32:39,040
I can't remember, I looked it up at one point.

823
01:32:39,040 --> 01:32:46,040
It burns really hot.

824
01:32:46,040 --> 01:32:55,040
Yeah, it burns really hot, so it should have no issue getting this thing hot enough to solder together.

825
01:32:55,040 --> 01:33:01,040
I'm just using some plumbing lead-free solder.

826
01:33:01,040 --> 01:33:04,040
I could easily use leaded solder, and honestly, it would make my life easier,

827
01:33:04,040 --> 01:33:07,040
but I kind of just don't want to.

828
01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:11,040
Lead, I'd just rather avoid it if I can.

829
01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:18,040
So, let's see how well this goes.

830
01:33:18,040 --> 01:33:23,040
For this, I want to heat up the bar, copper, and the aluminum part itself.

831
01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:26,040
Okay, the box is starting to get liquid.

832
01:33:26,040 --> 01:33:33,040
Okay, so that didn't work. The reason I can tell is as I was dragging that solder along the joint,

833
01:33:33,040 --> 01:33:40,040
what I wanted it to do was I wanted it to pull in between the aluminum and the copper.

834
01:33:40,040 --> 01:33:48,040
It did not do that, which likely means...

835
01:33:48,040 --> 01:33:53,040
Oh, I should be doing this, probably, trying to do this sideways.

836
01:33:53,040 --> 01:33:56,040
I didn't treat the surfaces well enough,

837
01:33:56,040 --> 01:34:04,040
or potentially the solder is not good for copper to aluminum.

838
01:34:04,040 --> 01:34:11,040
So this is like a silver solder, which I think should work, but who knows.

839
01:34:11,040 --> 01:34:14,040
This is going to be disgustingly hot for a very long time,

840
01:34:14,040 --> 01:34:18,040
so I'm probably just going to leave it for a while and come back and poke at it later.

841
01:34:18,040 --> 01:34:23,040
Eventually, at a certain point, once it gets cool enough, I'll just dunk it in a thing of water,

842
01:34:23,040 --> 01:34:29,040
because once I know all of the solder is solidified and everything,

843
01:34:29,040 --> 01:34:33,040
honestly, dunking it in water in terms of the copper would actually help it needle it.

844
01:34:33,040 --> 01:34:37,040
So that would probably not be a bad idea, regardless.

845
01:34:37,040 --> 01:34:39,040
Then it'll make it a lot softer.

846
01:34:40,040 --> 01:34:43,040
Ho! Great failure!

847
01:34:43,040 --> 01:34:46,040
Alright, time for the quench.

848
01:34:46,040 --> 01:34:50,040
Just for bits and giggles, I'll give you a nice from above view.

849
01:34:50,040 --> 01:34:54,040
Let's see if this is even attached at all. Yeah, not even a little.

850
01:34:54,040 --> 01:35:00,040
So this I'll just dunk in, because it's not going to be fun.

851
01:35:01,040 --> 01:35:03,040
Copper.

852
01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:10,040
So don't touch any of this crap.

853
01:35:13,040 --> 01:35:19,040
After doing a bunch of testing on the driving portion of the circuitry,

854
01:35:19,040 --> 01:35:23,040
I did some tests with our power supply up top,

855
01:35:23,040 --> 01:35:31,040
and promptly realized it can put out nowhere near enough current to test the power side properly.

856
01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:40,040
In my next step, I have taken a power cable and given it a snip to supply my input to my rectifier

857
01:35:40,040 --> 01:35:44,040
and the rest of my power circuitry.

858
01:35:44,040 --> 01:35:51,040
I have a nice variac right here that allows me to control what level of AC I put into this,

859
01:35:51,040 --> 01:35:55,040
so I don't just hook this straight up to mains power.

860
01:35:55,040 --> 01:35:59,040
Though still dangerous, is not quite as bad.

861
01:35:59,040 --> 01:36:06,040
So I can control how much voltage is coming out of this machine and going into here and loading up this capacitor.

862
01:36:06,040 --> 01:36:12,040
I have a tiny little discharge resistor as well, and I don't have any load on the output of this.

863
01:36:12,040 --> 01:36:17,040
So this is just making sure that voltage is actually going in correctly,

864
01:36:17,040 --> 01:36:20,040
and nothing really bad is going to happen.

865
01:36:22,040 --> 01:36:25,040
But here we go.

866
01:36:25,040 --> 01:36:30,040
First things first, some sanity check.

867
01:36:30,040 --> 01:36:38,040
Measure what the AC voltage out of this bad boy is.

868
01:36:38,040 --> 01:36:43,040
Zero. Let's go to like 30.

869
01:36:46,040 --> 01:36:48,040
Let's go to 15.

870
01:36:49,040 --> 01:36:53,040
Yeah. 15 in change.

871
01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:57,040
It's reasonable. Power that off.

872
01:37:01,040 --> 01:37:09,040
This is where the stress comes in, and now I do not get to touch anything moment.

873
01:37:09,040 --> 01:37:14,040
Because as soon as I turn this on, this capacitor is going to be charged up.

874
01:37:14,040 --> 01:37:19,040
And that is nothing to mess around with.

875
01:37:19,040 --> 01:37:21,040
Okay.

876
01:37:23,040 --> 01:37:31,040
I'm going to prove across the inputs here.

877
01:37:33,040 --> 01:37:39,040
And these are good for a thousand volts, so I'm not too concerned.

878
01:37:39,040 --> 01:37:41,040
But here we go.

879
01:37:44,040 --> 01:37:47,040
It's up to 20 volts.

880
01:37:47,040 --> 01:37:52,040
That seems about right. Do a quick power off.

881
01:37:52,040 --> 01:37:58,040
And this is going to take like five minutes to discharge.

882
01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:03,040
It's a good start.

883
01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:06,040
A little more sanity check.

884
01:38:06,040 --> 01:38:11,040
Once this switches on over to the DC side, it's not as concerning.

885
01:38:11,040 --> 01:38:16,040
Obviously, high DC voltage, still very problematic.

886
01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:21,040
These two components have a lot of power stored in them.

887
01:38:21,040 --> 01:38:29,040
And not respecting that they have a lot of power stored in them is going to give you a very bad time.

888
01:38:29,040 --> 01:38:32,040
And polarity is also correct.

889
01:38:32,040 --> 01:38:37,040
So that is fantastic news.

890
01:38:37,040 --> 01:38:42,040
And I just get to wait for that to discharge for a hot minute.

891
01:38:42,040 --> 01:38:51,040
And next time you see me, I'll have the full circuitry later up in front for a full power test.

892
01:38:51,040 --> 01:38:57,040
Now on to some moment of truth level shenanigans.

893
01:38:57,040 --> 01:39:06,040
I have at least the starting version of the quote unquote full power test.

894
01:39:06,040 --> 01:39:09,040
All of the circuitry is wired up.

895
01:39:09,040 --> 01:39:16,040
I have the 15 volt supply going to this side.

896
01:39:16,040 --> 01:39:26,040
But I just noticed that because my nice little heat sink that is keeping my gate drivers alive on this board just shifted at some point.

897
01:39:26,040 --> 01:39:32,040
Put that back.

898
01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:39,040
Because I can pretty much guarantee without that they will die.

899
01:39:39,040 --> 01:39:44,040
Okay.

900
01:39:44,040 --> 01:39:55,040
My frequency generation into my first stage gate drive into my second stage gate drive into the IGBT block,

901
01:39:55,040 --> 01:40:08,040
which takes the AC power that comes out of this thing that my brain just refuses to remember the name of the transformer, auto transformer.

902
01:40:08,040 --> 01:40:16,040
Goes through a three phase full project fire, which I'm all using two phases, which charges these two capacitors,

903
01:40:16,040 --> 01:40:24,040
which then act as buffers for the IGBTs to pump through this toroid, which may or may not be good enough.

904
01:40:24,040 --> 01:40:27,040
This may actually be the current bottleneck.

905
01:40:27,040 --> 01:40:32,040
I then have that toroid coupled to the main loop.

906
01:40:32,040 --> 01:40:35,040
No idea what the inductance of this thing is.

907
01:40:35,040 --> 01:40:40,040
And honestly, I don't care as long if I can get anything out of this.

908
01:40:40,040 --> 01:40:44,040
A plus super win.

909
01:40:44,040 --> 01:40:51,040
And I will likely put this nice little welded cube I made forever ago when I was learning how to MIG.

910
01:40:51,040 --> 01:40:55,040
In case you couldn't tell, I was not great.

911
01:40:55,040 --> 01:41:04,040
Attacked as a heat load at some point. I'm not going to do that right off the bat because I don't want to load up the entire system on the very first attempt.

912
01:41:04,040 --> 01:41:10,040
That's just begging for problems.

913
01:41:10,040 --> 01:41:18,040
One thing I'm not totally sure about is the order of operations I really want to take here.

914
01:41:18,040 --> 01:41:32,040
The thing I can do is just connect these grounds together and then connect these two probes to the ends of this copper pipe.

915
01:41:32,040 --> 01:41:39,040
I mean, yeah, it's probably fine.

916
01:41:39,040 --> 01:41:44,040
Keyword, probably fine.

917
01:41:44,040 --> 01:41:48,040
Okay.

918
01:41:48,040 --> 01:41:52,040
Oh, is that actually fine?

919
01:41:52,040 --> 01:41:59,040
I don't know how high the voltage is going to get on this, so I'm actually not going to do that.

920
01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:13,040
However, what I am going to do is I am going to probe the output of the IGBT to see if it has resolved.

921
01:42:13,040 --> 01:42:19,040
If making the change I made has resolved the previous issue I had.

922
01:42:19,040 --> 01:42:24,040
So long as these ground probes don't touch anything, I don't think it matters.

923
01:42:24,040 --> 01:42:30,040
The only thing I'm actually going to care about is the math difference between them on the oscilloscope.

924
01:42:30,040 --> 01:42:37,040
So as long as the two grounds are the same, it shouldn't cause any problems.

925
01:42:37,040 --> 01:42:45,040
So I want this to be 15 volts, peak at two amps, whatever.

926
01:42:45,040 --> 01:42:54,040
What do I want to turn on first? I will turn this on first.

927
01:42:54,040 --> 01:42:58,040
And I want this to be in DC.

928
01:42:58,040 --> 01:43:04,040
Okay, let's do some measurement.

929
01:43:04,040 --> 01:43:07,040
Okay, let's go at this capacitor.

930
01:43:07,040 --> 01:43:11,040
Nothing right now. Perfect. Good, good.

931
01:43:11,040 --> 01:43:18,040
Promptly going up. Now at 20 volts DC, perfect.

932
01:43:18,040 --> 01:43:21,040
And now let's power this on and see what happens.

933
01:43:21,040 --> 01:43:30,040
Holy crap, something was vibrating.

934
01:43:30,040 --> 01:43:43,040
What?

935
01:43:43,040 --> 01:43:48,040
Okay, okay.

936
01:43:48,040 --> 01:43:51,040
Is anything getting insanely hot?

937
01:43:51,040 --> 01:43:56,040
Or did anything get insanely hot? 26 degrees.

938
01:43:56,040 --> 01:44:03,040
That seems to have gotten warm very quickly.

939
01:44:03,040 --> 01:44:11,040
Huh. Oh, kiroki.

940
01:44:11,040 --> 01:44:19,040
So this is going to be a two-handed never now because I need to figure out what is actually going on.

941
01:44:19,040 --> 01:44:24,040
So I'm going to do a quick power on, stop the probe on the oscilloscope,

942
01:44:24,040 --> 01:44:28,040
and power it off again because that vibration is very strange.

943
01:44:28,040 --> 01:44:36,040
And, you know, yeah.

944
01:44:36,040 --> 01:44:42,040
That has got to be this coil.

945
01:44:42,040 --> 01:44:45,040
That has got to be this coil.

946
01:44:45,040 --> 01:44:54,040
What's my... Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what?

947
01:44:54,040 --> 01:44:58,040
Ha, ha, ha, ha. Awesome.

948
01:44:58,040 --> 01:45:01,040
Does that matter?

949
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:07,040
No, that's a 60 hertz wave that's not relevant for what I'm doing.

950
01:45:07,040 --> 01:45:10,040
So...

951
01:45:10,040 --> 01:45:14,040
And that's getting coupled from a nice ground loop I've created.

952
01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:18,040
Awesome.

953
01:45:18,040 --> 01:45:22,040
Okay, well, that's fun.

954
01:45:22,040 --> 01:45:26,040
So I'm going to show you. Please, God, tell me I turned this on.

955
01:45:26,040 --> 01:45:34,040
Okay. So this is what happens when you don't ground correctly.

956
01:45:34,040 --> 01:45:39,040
I'm 95% sure this is a 60 hertz variation.

957
01:45:39,040 --> 01:45:46,040
And those gigantic spikes are from the variations,

958
01:45:46,040 --> 01:45:51,040
essentially from the ground loop that I've made with the probe tips.

959
01:45:51,040 --> 01:45:55,040
So with the probe grounds, so these ones right here.

960
01:45:55,040 --> 01:45:58,040
And the probes.

961
01:45:58,040 --> 01:46:08,040
That has made this nice and fairly unreadable plot.

962
01:46:09,040 --> 01:46:13,040
Mm, noisy.

963
01:46:13,040 --> 01:46:17,040
Noisy, noisy, noisy. Okay, interesting.

964
01:46:17,040 --> 01:46:20,040
Made a discovery.

965
01:46:20,040 --> 01:46:24,040
So I kind of jumped when I turned on the main power,

966
01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:30,040
sorry, when I turned on the gate driving circuitry

967
01:46:30,040 --> 01:46:34,040
and had the main power, quote unquote, mains power running,

968
01:46:34,040 --> 01:46:40,040
the AC power running. What I have just found out is what was actually creating

969
01:46:40,040 --> 01:46:46,040
that lovely vibration noise is the auto transformer,

970
01:46:46,040 --> 01:46:52,040
which is great because that means it's not my circuit. So that's awesome.

971
01:46:52,040 --> 01:46:57,040
One thing I'm not sure about this instance is what is actually working

972
01:46:57,040 --> 01:47:04,040
and what isn't. I think my next step is going to be probing across the coil here

973
01:47:04,040 --> 01:47:07,040
with the multimeter.

974
01:47:07,040 --> 01:47:12,040
That one, not that one, that gives all the pretty plots,

975
01:47:12,040 --> 01:47:17,040
but this one, because it has a lot higher voltage survivability,

976
01:47:17,040 --> 01:47:21,040
it can go up to a thousand volts and it will be fine, no problem.

977
01:47:21,040 --> 01:47:24,040
Whereas that one is a lot more sensitive to higher voltages

978
01:47:24,040 --> 01:47:28,040
and I do not know what the voltage in this is.

979
01:47:28,040 --> 01:47:33,040
Because this is a resonance circuit, if I somehow miraculously hit the resonance of it,

980
01:47:33,040 --> 01:47:38,040
the voltage could get very high and I don't want to blow up any of our measurement devices.

981
01:47:38,040 --> 01:47:44,040
So I'll be probing with that bad boy.

982
01:47:44,040 --> 01:47:47,040
That one. And then seeing what happens.

983
01:47:47,040 --> 01:47:53,040
Okay, so I have all this stuff laid up. I want to do a little bit of fiddling around with the frequency

984
01:47:53,040 --> 01:47:59,040
just to see how everything, to see if the voltage across these two things increases

985
01:47:59,040 --> 01:48:02,040
and comes to a peak.

986
01:48:02,040 --> 01:48:07,040
Yeah. So I'm going to probe across this.

987
01:48:07,040 --> 01:48:11,040
I also learned that the oscilloscope is just not working.

988
01:48:11,040 --> 01:48:14,040
For this use case, unfortunately,

989
01:48:14,040 --> 01:48:17,040
that has mostly to do with the fact

990
01:48:17,040 --> 01:48:20,040
that I'm getting a ton of common mode noise between the main,

991
01:48:20,040 --> 01:48:23,040
this power circuit and the oscilloscope,

992
01:48:23,040 --> 01:48:30,040
because they're running on different circuits and trying to probe this thing is just a nightmare.

993
01:48:30,040 --> 01:48:34,040
Okay, so this thing is isolated.

994
01:48:34,040 --> 01:48:37,040
So it measures, it can measure VAC without,

995
01:48:37,040 --> 01:48:43,040
I think it can measure AC voltage without having a disgusting amount of common mode noise problems

996
01:48:43,040 --> 01:48:46,040
unlike this oscilloscope, which just does.

997
01:48:46,040 --> 01:48:49,040
And that's mostly my issue

998
01:48:49,040 --> 01:48:54,040
and me not grounding correctly or not knowing how to ground correctly.

999
01:48:54,040 --> 01:48:57,040
But let's try this.

1000
01:49:01,040 --> 01:49:07,040
Okay, so it's 85 millivolts.

1001
01:49:09,040 --> 01:49:12,040
Oh, wow, it peaks at like 160.

1002
01:49:17,040 --> 01:49:21,040
Uh, wait, what? Hey, hold on!

1003
01:49:21,040 --> 01:49:23,040
Hey, hold on!

1004
01:49:26,040 --> 01:49:29,040
There is smoke coming out of the variac.

1005
01:49:31,040 --> 01:49:34,040
That's bad.

1006
01:49:38,040 --> 01:49:41,040
Holy Shiza God,

1007
01:49:41,040 --> 01:49:46,040
that was drawing a lot of current. This cable is like very warm.

1008
01:49:51,040 --> 01:49:56,040
Killing it at 37 degrees, 30, 40 degrees.

1009
01:50:01,040 --> 01:50:03,040
45 degrees.

1010
01:50:05,040 --> 01:50:10,040
40 something degrees. So I think I may have just over-currented this,

1011
01:50:10,040 --> 01:50:13,040
which means that fuse in there is very not good

1012
01:50:13,040 --> 01:50:16,040
and does not work properly.

1013
01:50:16,040 --> 01:50:20,040
Okay, well, that's fun.

1014
01:50:20,040 --> 01:50:24,040
Okay, well, time for more seeing what the F's going on.

1015
01:50:24,040 --> 01:50:29,040
We're going to do some proper vlogging here. So I'm about to take out the fuse,

1016
01:50:29,040 --> 01:50:33,040
which is still extremely intact

1017
01:50:33,040 --> 01:50:38,040
and very much is still functioning as current as intended.

1018
01:50:38,040 --> 01:50:45,040
Clearly, this thing is not,

1019
01:50:45,040 --> 01:50:48,040
it's not spec'd correctly,

1020
01:50:48,040 --> 01:50:51,040
because it was literally smoking.

1021
01:50:51,040 --> 01:50:55,040
I have disconnected it from the wall, disconnected it from the power circuit.

1022
01:50:55,040 --> 01:50:58,040
This thing is just a giant coil,

1023
01:50:58,040 --> 01:51:03,040
so I'm not super concerned about it like,

1024
01:51:03,040 --> 01:51:09,040
like zapping me, but oh boy, is that ever spicy.

1025
01:51:09,040 --> 01:51:12,040
Did not think that was going to happen.

1026
01:51:12,040 --> 01:51:15,040
I expected one of these things to fry,

1027
01:51:15,040 --> 01:51:18,040
not the fricking variac.

1028
01:51:18,040 --> 01:51:21,040
My gosh, it's like pretty warm.

1029
01:51:21,040 --> 01:51:25,040
Interesting. I wonder if the fact that I was drawing at a low power,

1030
01:51:25,040 --> 01:51:29,040
a low voltage meant it was dumping a ton of current.

1031
01:51:29,040 --> 01:51:33,040
I don't actually remember how these things work. I've used them a couple of times,

1032
01:51:33,040 --> 01:51:36,040
but okay, time for some teardown.

1033
01:51:36,040 --> 01:51:39,040
A little bit more vlogging from teardown.

1034
01:51:39,040 --> 01:51:42,040
I took off this front panel.

1035
01:51:42,040 --> 01:51:46,040
Also, if anyone is ever actually deploying one of these things,

1036
01:51:46,040 --> 01:51:49,040
make sure you make some modifications to them

1037
01:51:49,040 --> 01:51:54,040
because the power cable is literally held in with hot glue.

1038
01:51:55,040 --> 01:52:02,040
That plastic sheath does nothing and there's zero strain relief on that power cable at all.

1039
01:52:02,040 --> 01:52:08,040
Also, I'm on the fence about if I think the power,

1040
01:52:08,040 --> 01:52:11,040
the cabling in here is actually rated high enough,

1041
01:52:11,040 --> 01:52:15,040
like thick enough gauge to run 20 amps through them.

1042
01:52:15,040 --> 01:52:18,040
That's very much a big question mark for me right now.

1043
01:52:18,040 --> 01:52:23,040
I'm not sure what was smoking.

1044
01:52:23,040 --> 01:52:26,040
How this actually works is back here,

1045
01:52:26,040 --> 01:52:30,040
you can see that black wire and it's bonded to one of the wires

1046
01:52:30,040 --> 01:52:34,040
around this gigantic toroid in the middle here.

1047
01:52:34,040 --> 01:52:40,040
You can see that it wraps all the way around it and it coils around this entire thing.

1048
01:52:42,040 --> 01:52:49,040
You can see this red wire right here. It connects right there to one of the other coils.

1049
01:52:49,040 --> 01:52:53,040
If I set the wiper, which is that little black thing

1050
01:52:53,040 --> 01:52:57,040
with the gold top, I'm just going to put this down.

1051
01:52:57,040 --> 01:53:01,040
That right there is what actually lets you determine

1052
01:53:01,040 --> 01:53:07,040
what voltage you want to set. It goes around and connects the output,

1053
01:53:07,040 --> 01:53:10,040
which is this yellow wire and goes to these two plugs,

1054
01:53:10,040 --> 01:53:15,040
to whatever the voltage you want is.

1055
01:53:15,040 --> 01:53:18,040
It can actually go above the voltage of the input

1056
01:53:18,040 --> 01:53:21,040
if you move it in this direction,

1057
01:53:21,040 --> 01:53:25,040
this direction relative to where this red wire is connected,

1058
01:53:25,040 --> 01:53:31,040
because that's 120 volts. This particular one I measured and it can go up to 145.

1059
01:53:35,040 --> 01:53:42,040
If you decided to go all the way up here, I was operating way down here, somewhere in that range.

1060
01:53:42,040 --> 01:53:45,040
I don't know what was smoking.

1061
01:53:45,040 --> 01:53:50,040
I have not been able to figure that out. My assumption was that it was either the connection

1062
01:53:50,040 --> 01:53:55,040
between the wiper and the tops of the copper,

1063
01:53:55,040 --> 01:54:00,040
or potentially some of the wiring in here, but I have not been able to identify what it was.

1064
01:54:00,040 --> 01:54:04,040
It could potentially also be the core,

1065
01:54:04,040 --> 01:54:08,040
but I would be very surprised if that was the case.

1066
01:54:08,040 --> 01:54:14,040
My current bet is it's something up top in there.

1067
01:54:14,040 --> 01:54:21,040
Maybe some of the wiring that ties it back to this block here,

1068
01:54:21,040 --> 01:54:24,040
or maybe something just got too hot.

1069
01:54:24,040 --> 01:54:28,040
Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure if I'm going to use this again,

1070
01:54:28,040 --> 01:54:33,040
but that also means that the next power-on is going to be terrifying.

1071
01:54:33,040 --> 01:54:36,040
The next power-on is going to be at full power,

1072
01:54:36,040 --> 01:54:40,040
well, sorry, full power that I'm going to be using.

1073
01:54:41,040 --> 01:54:45,040
That potentially means that the next time I power this on

1074
01:54:45,040 --> 01:54:49,040
is going to be terrifying because it's going to be at 120 volts,

1075
01:54:49,040 --> 01:54:53,040
which is full power for the sake of this part, at least.

1076
01:54:53,040 --> 01:54:59,040
Eventually, I'll be pumping a lot more power through this, but that's once I'm more comfortable with the circuit and using it.

1077
01:54:59,040 --> 01:55:02,040
Everything seems to be rated for it and should be fine.

1078
01:55:02,040 --> 01:55:05,040
The only thing I'm unsure about is the toroid on the downside,

1079
01:55:05,040 --> 01:55:08,040
on the downstream of the edgy BTs.

1080
01:55:08,040 --> 01:55:13,040
That's something that's a big old question mark because I'm pretty sure the one I have is not going to work properly.

1081
01:55:13,040 --> 01:55:16,040
It's going to get saturated like nobody's freaking business,

1082
01:55:16,040 --> 01:55:24,040
and I'm going to have to source another one, which would suck. But maybe I'll just take this apart and use that gigantic toroid.

1083
01:55:24,040 --> 01:55:30,040
Who knows? Though this thing probably isn't designed for the frequencies I would use it for.

1084
01:55:30,040 --> 01:55:34,040
We'll see. I'll have to do some digging if that doesn't pan out,

1085
01:55:34,040 --> 01:55:38,040
but I think that's probably pretty much it for today.

1086
01:55:38,040 --> 01:55:42,040
I've hit a point of a little bit of full YOLO.

1087
01:55:42,040 --> 01:55:51,040
I am going to try plugging the power side just straight into the wall.

1088
01:55:51,040 --> 01:55:56,040
Everything here is rated for that voltage or way higher.

1089
01:55:56,040 --> 01:56:02,040
This capacitor is rated for up to 1500 volts.

1090
01:56:02,040 --> 01:56:05,040
This capacitor is rated up to 700 volts.

1091
01:56:05,040 --> 01:56:08,040
The two IGBTs are rated to 600 volts,

1092
01:56:08,040 --> 01:56:19,040
and this three phase Fulbridge rectifier is rated up to, I believe, 240 volts.

1093
01:56:19,040 --> 01:56:23,040
So I'm just going to send it.

1094
01:56:23,040 --> 01:56:29,040
But you're going to see it because if something decides to go kaputz,

1095
01:56:29,040 --> 01:56:32,040
it's probably going to be pretty spectacular.

1096
01:56:32,040 --> 01:56:37,040
And I'm actually going to move a little out of the way just in case.

1097
01:56:37,040 --> 01:56:40,040
So if it pops, it'll pop quick.

1098
01:56:40,040 --> 01:56:46,040
Okay, here we go.

1099
01:56:46,040 --> 01:56:49,040
No smoke.

1100
01:56:49,040 --> 01:56:57,040
No craziness. This is definitely at the point where I do not want to get anywhere near touching any of this.

1101
01:56:57,040 --> 01:57:04,040
This is now properly dangerous.

1102
01:57:04,040 --> 01:57:08,040
So this is a hundred and seventy volts DC.

1103
01:57:08,040 --> 01:57:15,040
And then the input is going to be something around 120-ish.

1104
01:57:15,040 --> 01:57:18,040
Heavy on the ish.

1105
01:57:18,040 --> 01:57:25,040
So I'm going to try turning on the power.

1106
01:57:26,040 --> 01:57:34,040
One second, please.

1107
01:57:34,040 --> 01:57:38,040
Well, that was fun.

1108
01:57:38,040 --> 01:57:47,040
So what happened? I took all of this beefcake circuitry, all of these caps, all this everything.

1109
01:57:47,040 --> 01:57:50,040
It charged up when I plugged it in. No problem.

1110
01:57:50,040 --> 01:57:54,040
Actually, it's plugged in again. I should very much turn that off.

1111
01:57:54,040 --> 01:58:07,040
What happened next was I turned on the gate control circuitry and I blew the breaker.

1112
01:58:07,040 --> 01:58:17,040
So that tells me I either have a dead short somewhere or this draws so much power.

1113
01:58:17,040 --> 01:58:21,040
And I probably need to load that heavier.

1114
01:58:21,040 --> 01:58:25,040
That that's just really bad.

1115
01:58:25,040 --> 01:58:29,040
Yeah, okay. Well, that's a fun learning experience.

1116
01:58:29,040 --> 01:58:34,040
I'm going to unplug that and make sure it's safe and then call it a day.

1117
01:58:34,040 --> 01:58:40,040
I just had a gargantuan RTFM moment.

1118
01:58:40,040 --> 01:58:48,040
So I was trying to troubleshoot why the heck I was maxing out power supplies, blowing breakers,

1119
01:58:48,040 --> 01:58:58,040
drawing just ridiculous amounts of current and seemingly getting literally nothing through the out of the IGBT block.

1120
01:58:58,040 --> 01:59:04,040
So I started poking around at it a little bit more and I realized I made a very poor assumption

1121
01:59:04,040 --> 01:59:08,040
and I was entirely incorrect with this assumption.

1122
01:59:08,040 --> 01:59:20,040
And the repercussions of that were that I was shorting directly through from the high side voltage straight to the return line.

1123
01:59:20,040 --> 01:59:24,040
Not going through the output at all or well, the output was still there,

1124
01:59:24,040 --> 01:59:32,040
but the resistance through the IGBT was so tiny that it was just bolting through that instead.

1125
01:59:32,040 --> 01:59:35,040
My realization came.

1126
01:59:35,040 --> 01:59:38,040
So in my circuitry and all my circuit diagrams,

1127
01:59:38,040 --> 01:59:47,040
I need to connect the gate reversed on one side to make sure that I don't have both of them on at the same time.

1128
01:59:47,040 --> 01:59:52,040
So I was looking at the pictures on the IGBTs and I saw, okay, cool, cool, cool.

1129
01:59:52,040 --> 01:59:55,040
So this is my collector one.

1130
01:59:55,040 --> 01:59:59,040
This is my emitter to this is my collector to an emitter one,

1131
01:59:59,040 --> 02:00:02,040
which essentially means this is the output in the middle.

1132
02:00:02,040 --> 02:00:05,040
This is the bottom and this is the top.

1133
02:00:05,040 --> 02:00:13,040
And I incorrectly assumed that each of these pins were what I thought they were.

1134
02:00:13,040 --> 02:00:26,040
Whereas in this was this pin was the emitter collector pin and this was the gate and this was the emitter pin and this was the gate.

1135
02:00:26,040 --> 02:00:30,040
My incorrect assumption. This is the gate.

1136
02:00:30,040 --> 02:00:38,040
This is the emitter. So while my circuit was turning on, whenever my gate driving circuit was turning on,

1137
02:00:38,040 --> 02:00:46,040
I was literally shorting the pins with power in and power out.

1138
02:00:46,040 --> 02:00:50,040
So that's a fun learning experience.

1139
02:00:50,040 --> 02:00:55,040
On the bright side, that means I can probably get this working today.

1140
02:00:56,040 --> 02:01:00,040
Good Lord. And we're back at it.

1141
02:01:00,040 --> 02:01:05,040
Everyone who's Uber turbo keen, although you probably can't see it from any of the angles I actually showed you,

1142
02:01:05,040 --> 02:01:12,040
all of these twists have heat shrink on them to indicate which side is which and also their different sized ferrules that I used.

1143
02:01:12,040 --> 02:01:18,040
I have switched these so they are hopefully correctly oriented this time.

1144
02:01:18,040 --> 02:01:23,040
I rebuild old circuit. I'm not going to power this off the wall this time.

1145
02:01:23,040 --> 02:01:30,040
For now, I'm going to start by using the bench power supply.

1146
02:01:30,040 --> 02:01:33,040
Powering this up with DC.

1147
02:01:33,040 --> 02:01:36,040
Essentially, none of this is actually connected.

1148
02:01:36,040 --> 02:01:40,040
It's not being used. It's connected, but it's not being used.

1149
02:01:40,040 --> 02:01:47,040
So I'll run this. I have a nice little IR thermometer just for shits and giggles to see if this thing gets hot.

1150
02:01:47,040 --> 02:01:52,040
And if it does, oh boy, are we getting somewhere.

1151
02:01:52,040 --> 02:01:57,040
But here we go. So power on running effectively no power.

1152
02:01:57,040 --> 02:02:01,040
So I have this energized at five volts.

1153
02:02:01,040 --> 02:02:05,040
So I'm not concerned about being near it. It's less.

1154
02:02:05,040 --> 02:02:15,040
It's less voltage than touching a nine volt. There's a lot more power here, but it's not going to get through my skin and power.

1155
02:02:15,040 --> 02:02:18,040
Okay. That's a lot better.

1156
02:02:18,040 --> 02:02:33,040
That's a ton better. So I turned on the driving circuitry and this only drew only only drew half an amp instead of 10.

1157
02:02:33,040 --> 02:02:39,040
Fantastic. That's amazing news for me.

1158
02:02:39,040 --> 02:02:42,040
That's not hot. That's not hot.

1159
02:02:42,040 --> 02:02:45,040
That's fine. That's fine. That's fine.

1160
02:02:45,040 --> 02:02:52,040
That's fine. Okay. Time to photograph some probes, I think.

1161
02:02:52,040 --> 02:02:57,040
I still have to figure out how the F I want to do this.

1162
02:02:57,040 --> 02:03:02,040
Do, do, do, do, do.

1163
02:03:02,040 --> 02:03:07,040
Let's grab these two just to start.

1164
02:03:07,040 --> 02:03:12,040
I want to connect the grounds together.

1165
02:03:12,040 --> 02:03:16,040
That shouldn't allow for any common noise, but obviously it totally will because I'm just being

1166
02:03:16,040 --> 02:03:24,040
dumb. Let's measure across the capacitor.

1167
02:03:24,040 --> 02:03:32,040
So what I definitely want to not want to not have happened is have these two ground connections.

1168
02:03:32,040 --> 02:03:36,040
Connections should connect to this because that would just be really bad.

1169
02:03:36,040 --> 02:03:41,040
Technically it should be isolated so it shouldn't cause any problems, but oh, do we ever know

1170
02:03:41,040 --> 02:03:45,040
that's not something I want to rely on in this circuit.

1171
02:03:45,040 --> 02:03:48,040
That would be terrifying. Okay. Here we go.

1172
02:03:48,040 --> 02:04:11,040
That's fun. Okay. I'm getting a little bit of movement, but really not very much.

1173
02:04:11,040 --> 02:04:21,040
Hang on.

1174
02:04:21,040 --> 02:04:27,040
Something I just thought about. I'm measuring the voltage across here.

1175
02:04:27,040 --> 02:04:32,040
The resistance in this circuit is very small.

1176
02:04:32,040 --> 02:04:37,040
Like very small, although the impedance is reasonable, but let's see.

1177
02:04:37,040 --> 02:04:47,040
What are we looking at here for the voltage?

1178
02:04:47,040 --> 02:04:52,040
We're looking at plus or minus a volt, roughly.

1179
02:04:52,040 --> 02:04:55,040
Yeah. Plus or minus about two volts.

1180
02:04:55,040 --> 02:05:00,040
Yeah. Okay. Which, given the input is five.

1181
02:05:00,040 --> 02:05:06,040
Sorry. Plus or minus one volt, total variation one volt, two volts.

1182
02:05:06,040 --> 02:05:11,040
That's not bad considering I've done literally zero tuning.

1183
02:05:11,040 --> 02:05:18,040
So let's turn that on again. Turn this on again and adjust the trigger.

1184
02:05:18,040 --> 02:05:23,040
How much power am I drawing?

1185
02:05:23,040 --> 02:05:26,040
That's probably fine. Where's my trigger?

1186
02:05:26,040 --> 02:05:29,040
What am I triggering on?

1187
02:05:30,040 --> 02:05:34,040
Oh, a channel that's not enabled. That's super smart.

1188
02:05:34,040 --> 02:05:38,040
Thanks, Keysight.

1189
02:05:38,040 --> 02:05:41,040
Why are you not triggering?

1190
02:05:41,040 --> 02:05:47,040
Hello. Thank you.

1191
02:05:47,040 --> 02:05:50,040
That looks much better. Okay.

1192
02:05:50,040 --> 02:05:58,040
Let's do some tuning. That did not change a damn thing, probably because my trigger is not working.

1193
02:05:58,040 --> 02:06:22,040
So it seems like this particular setup is resonating right around the top end of my potentiometers

1194
02:06:22,040 --> 02:06:33,040
range. And that is giving me almost a completely pure sine wave here, which is great.

1195
02:06:33,040 --> 02:06:36,040
That's what I want.

1196
02:06:36,040 --> 02:06:42,040
And the total voltage change is looking like one, like 1.6 volts.

1197
02:06:42,040 --> 02:06:47,040
It's really not very big.

1198
02:06:47,040 --> 02:06:50,040
Yeah. So it's like 1.6 volts.

1199
02:06:50,040 --> 02:06:53,040
Is it getting warm?

1200
02:06:53,040 --> 02:06:58,040
27. It's hot AF in here, by the way.

1201
02:06:58,040 --> 02:07:02,040
Is it getting warm? No.

1202
02:07:02,040 --> 02:07:06,040
28 degrees. 28 degrees.

1203
02:07:06,040 --> 02:07:09,040
Oh, that's thirsty.

1204
02:07:09,040 --> 02:07:12,040
52.

1205
02:07:12,040 --> 02:07:16,040
That's a little uncomfortable with the warm.

1206
02:07:16,040 --> 02:07:20,040
So that's going to need active cooling. Sure.

1207
02:07:20,040 --> 02:07:26,040
For sure.

1208
02:07:26,040 --> 02:07:30,040
I could probably run this off the wall now.

1209
02:07:30,040 --> 02:07:33,040
I'm not going to yet.

1210
02:07:33,040 --> 02:07:37,040
I want to get active cooling for this first.

1211
02:07:37,040 --> 02:07:42,040
I'll bump it up to 6 volts just because I can.

1212
02:07:42,040 --> 02:07:45,040
Run this.

1213
02:07:45,040 --> 02:07:48,040
Okay. Stop that.

1214
02:07:48,040 --> 02:07:54,040
1.25 amps. Damn, that's toasty.

1215
02:07:54,040 --> 02:08:00,040
Whoo. 52 degrees, bud.

1216
02:08:00,040 --> 02:08:04,040
That's hot. How about this?

1217
02:08:04,040 --> 02:08:08,040
Oh, yeah, I should not touch that cap. Actually, it's 6 volts is fine.

1218
02:08:08,040 --> 02:08:12,040
These things are fine. They're barely warm.

1219
02:08:12,040 --> 02:08:16,040
They're barely warmer than this room.

1220
02:08:16,040 --> 02:08:20,040
Which isn't saying much because the room's hot as heck.

1221
02:08:20,040 --> 02:08:24,040
Let's just turn that on. Okay.

1222
02:08:24,040 --> 02:08:26,040
Um...

1223
02:08:29,040 --> 02:08:38,040
So I'm getting plus or minus some volts. Whistling.

1224
02:08:38,040 --> 02:08:41,040
Oh.

1225
02:08:41,040 --> 02:08:45,040
Head full cap to the bottom. Head to the bottom.

1226
02:08:45,040 --> 02:08:47,040
Head to the bottom.

1227
02:08:49,040 --> 02:08:54,040
I'm starting to wrap up the coils or the singular coil at this point

1228
02:08:54,040 --> 02:09:00,040
for the actual work side of the...

1229
02:09:00,040 --> 02:09:06,040
I'm wrapping up the coil for the work...

1230
02:09:06,040 --> 02:09:12,040
I started wrapping up the work coil and I was using this nice little like

1231
02:09:12,040 --> 02:09:16,040
push-in adapter for PVC pipes to a corrugated pipe.

1232
02:09:16,040 --> 02:09:19,040
And then I was...

1233
02:09:19,040 --> 02:09:23,040
It's kind of a pain in the butt because of all of these lips getting the coil wrapped around it

1234
02:09:23,040 --> 02:09:27,040
and then getting it off. It's kind of a pain in the ass.

1235
02:09:27,040 --> 02:09:31,040
And I promptly realized our nice water bottles from lttstore.com, this is an old one,

1236
02:09:31,040 --> 02:09:34,040
but are about 3.5 inches in diameter,

1237
02:09:34,040 --> 02:09:40,040
which is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for. So I can just wrap it around that instead.

1238
02:09:40,040 --> 02:09:44,040
Yay! That's very convenient for me because this is straight

1239
02:09:44,040 --> 02:09:48,040
and I can get the tube off no problem unlike the corrugated connector

1240
02:09:48,040 --> 02:09:52,040
which is a gigantic pain in the butt. That was a fun little workout.

1241
02:09:52,040 --> 02:09:58,040
This tube is... This coil is a little...

1242
02:09:58,040 --> 02:10:01,040
Actually better than I thought it was going to turn out.

1243
02:10:01,040 --> 02:10:05,040
We're going to have to compress it down a little bit and make sure that all of these individual pipes

1244
02:10:05,040 --> 02:10:09,040
are isolated. So when I put barbed steel

1245
02:10:09,040 --> 02:10:14,040
or whatever else I put in here, it doesn't short between each of the coils,

1246
02:10:14,040 --> 02:10:18,040
which wouldn't be that... It would not be good.

1247
02:10:18,040 --> 02:10:23,040
It wouldn't be that bad because copper is super conductive so it's not going to make anything like really, really bad,

1248
02:10:23,040 --> 02:10:26,040
but ideally I would not have any of this

1249
02:10:26,040 --> 02:10:29,040
able to be electrically contacted with something.

1250
02:10:29,040 --> 02:10:33,040
Obviously you can touch it, which is still not great.

1251
02:10:33,040 --> 02:10:36,040
It shouldn't be that hot because of the water running through it,

1252
02:10:36,040 --> 02:10:39,040
but yeah, this is definitely not something

1253
02:10:39,040 --> 02:10:44,040
to accidentally hit because there's going to be a lot of voltage

1254
02:10:44,040 --> 02:10:48,040
and power in it. Though it should be isolated from everything,

1255
02:10:48,040 --> 02:10:53,040
so it shouldn't be that bad. It's still not something that you would want to touch.

1256
02:10:53,040 --> 02:10:58,040
Certainly not unintentionally. But yeah, that wasn't actually too bad.

1257
02:10:58,040 --> 02:11:03,040
I have starting here three, four, five, six and a half

1258
02:11:03,040 --> 02:11:06,040
turns I need seven and a half.

1259
02:11:06,040 --> 02:11:12,040
Okay. I can do basic math sometimes.

1260
02:11:20,040 --> 02:11:25,040
There we go. Seven and a half turns.

1261
02:11:25,040 --> 02:11:28,040
So that gives me what I'm looking for.

1262
02:11:28,040 --> 02:11:33,040
And then according to my math, I'm looking for a total length of this coil

1263
02:11:33,040 --> 02:11:36,040
of about six inches.

1264
02:11:36,040 --> 02:11:43,040
I'm pretty sure this is a little bigger, but it'll be a good place to start.

1265
02:11:43,040 --> 02:11:48,040
Oh no, actually, this is like bang on six and a half inches, so I'll take it down a little bit probably

1266
02:11:48,040 --> 02:11:53,040
because if I really check some math,

1267
02:11:53,040 --> 02:11:59,040
that would make it, and it's probably fine.

1268
02:11:59,040 --> 02:12:02,040
It probably doesn't matter.

1269
02:12:02,040 --> 02:12:05,040
Next up, chopping some stuff,

1270
02:12:05,040 --> 02:12:08,040
figuring out how to connect this

1271
02:12:08,040 --> 02:12:13,040
to the actual capacitor

1272
02:12:13,040 --> 02:12:20,040
with the help of a couple of these. And then I need to get the coupling toroid

1273
02:12:20,040 --> 02:12:24,040
around the capacitor side of these,

1274
02:12:24,040 --> 02:12:28,040
so that these are small enough that I can just take it off if I need to.

1275
02:12:28,040 --> 02:12:33,040
So that's very nice. I'm going to leave this one side a little longer

1276
02:12:33,040 --> 02:12:36,040
just to allow myself, if I need to,

1277
02:12:36,040 --> 02:12:42,040
to bend in to connect to the other compression fitting

1278
02:12:42,040 --> 02:12:46,040
because I'm pretty sure those are only three and a half inches apart.

1279
02:12:46,040 --> 02:12:49,040
So I have that option.

1280
02:12:49,040 --> 02:12:52,040
Nice, and then that will fit on something

1281
02:12:52,040 --> 02:12:57,040
like a little pressed slash mangled,

1282
02:12:57,040 --> 02:13:01,040
but that'll fit something like that. It will compress down,

1283
02:13:01,040 --> 02:13:05,040
but I'll show you a little more detail on how that actually works. Want to do it?

1284
02:13:05,040 --> 02:13:08,040
Yay, getting there. In front of me sits a lot of things

1285
02:13:08,040 --> 02:13:13,040
that I'm going to have to put together before I am done here.

1286
02:13:13,040 --> 02:13:16,040
Extra tubing, extra tubing for who the heck knows what reason.

1287
02:13:16,040 --> 02:13:20,040
I'll probably end up making a smaller diameter

1288
02:13:20,040 --> 02:13:26,040
work coil eventually, but that's going to be a later endeavor for sure.

1289
02:13:26,040 --> 02:13:31,040
So that can just chill. So I have a nice deburring tool.

1290
02:13:31,040 --> 02:13:35,040
I have a pipe cutter, and then I have some swage lock fittings.

1291
02:13:35,040 --> 02:13:39,040
These are brass and designed for relatively soft materials,

1292
02:13:39,040 --> 02:13:42,040
or at least these swages are designed

1293
02:13:42,040 --> 02:13:48,040
for relatively soft materials. These ones in particular for copper.

1294
02:13:48,040 --> 02:13:54,040
How it actually works is you put the nut over your pipe,

1295
02:13:54,040 --> 02:13:57,040
you put the two swages over top as well,

1296
02:13:57,040 --> 02:14:03,040
and then the inside of these connections has a taper on it that kind of lines up with this.

1297
02:14:03,040 --> 02:14:09,040
What happens is that taper compresses against here,

1298
02:14:09,040 --> 02:14:12,040
and then the nut tightens these together

1299
02:14:12,040 --> 02:14:18,040
and squishes this inner intersection into here,

1300
02:14:18,040 --> 02:14:21,040
compressing it, holding the copper pipe,

1301
02:14:21,040 --> 02:14:25,040
and it actually compresses the copper pipe as well. So this is a permanent fixture,

1302
02:14:25,040 --> 02:14:28,040
which also means you can't get this nut off ever

1303
02:14:28,040 --> 02:14:32,040
without cutting it or somehow pulling the swage off.

1304
02:14:32,040 --> 02:14:37,040
That's why I have a couple of extra nuts kicking around, as well as a couple of extra swage sets,

1305
02:14:37,040 --> 02:14:40,040
so I can have multiple work coils

1306
02:14:40,040 --> 02:14:44,040
if I need them for different use cases.

1307
02:14:44,040 --> 02:14:49,040
But before I do that, after you use this pipe cutter,

1308
02:14:49,040 --> 02:14:53,040
the inside of the pipe is really sharp and jagged,

1309
02:14:53,040 --> 02:14:56,040
and in some situations the outside even has a lip on it

1310
02:14:56,040 --> 02:15:01,040
that you need to take down. So I have this deburring tool that I'll use

1311
02:15:01,040 --> 02:15:04,040
to clean up the insides of these.

1312
02:15:04,040 --> 02:15:08,040
Unfortunately, which I may end up regretting later,

1313
02:15:08,040 --> 02:15:13,040
I may have actually sandblasted the copper pipe here.

1314
02:15:13,040 --> 02:15:16,040
So I sandblasted the copper pipe here

1315
02:15:16,040 --> 02:15:19,040
when I was cleaning up after brazing,

1316
02:15:19,040 --> 02:15:22,040
and that's going to suck,

1317
02:15:22,040 --> 02:15:26,040
because that might mean that these swage fittings won't work.

1318
02:15:26,040 --> 02:15:31,040
I will have to test that and hope.

1319
02:15:31,040 --> 02:15:34,040
But I'll end up probably trimming both of these down

1320
02:15:34,040 --> 02:15:40,040
to be in line with each other, swaging the fittings on here.

1321
02:15:40,040 --> 02:15:47,040
Maybe I'll leave it a little bit longer, actually, because I need to have the matching coil on it.

1322
02:15:47,040 --> 02:15:52,040
So I'll leave it a little bit longer, probably cut it somewhere around here or something like that,

1323
02:15:52,040 --> 02:15:56,040
just to get rid of this really bad section, or maybe I'll use this side.

1324
02:15:56,040 --> 02:16:00,040
I haven't figured that out yet. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

1325
02:16:00,040 --> 02:16:06,040
I'll cut it off, trim the insides, and then do the swage fittings.

1326
02:16:06,040 --> 02:16:10,040
But yeah, up until that point, this is going to be very interesting,

1327
02:16:10,040 --> 02:16:15,040
because it's just going to be a lot of cutting copper pipe. Back out in the shop where we have all of the tools,

1328
02:16:15,040 --> 02:16:19,040
instead of just a couple of the tools, I can create a warehouse for the time being.

1329
02:16:19,040 --> 02:16:23,040
So I've recollected everything I needed, including a couple of wrenches.

1330
02:16:23,040 --> 02:16:28,040
These particular swage lock fittings use half-inch for this smaller central piece.

1331
02:16:28,040 --> 02:16:31,040
And then what is it, 9-16ths?

1332
02:16:31,040 --> 02:16:35,040
9-16ths for the bigger side. So grab both of those because you need both.

1333
02:16:35,040 --> 02:16:40,040
And now I get to just do a little bit of copper pipe treatments.

1334
02:16:40,040 --> 02:16:44,040
So earlier on, I had used a slightly smaller,

1335
02:16:44,040 --> 02:16:48,040
well, slightly, a non-trivial smaller pipe cutter.

1336
02:16:48,040 --> 02:16:52,040
I ended up switching to this bigger one because it's newer.

1337
02:16:52,040 --> 02:16:57,040
It has a fresher blade. I know you can just replace the blades from them.

1338
02:16:57,040 --> 02:17:01,040
But, you know, I'm here on the weekend. And no one's here, no one's here.

1339
02:17:01,040 --> 02:17:06,040
Because I like random projects that scope is way too big.

1340
02:17:06,040 --> 02:17:10,040
But it's fun. I like pushing myself to learn.

1341
02:17:10,040 --> 02:17:15,040
And also applying skills I've learned in different ways,

1342
02:17:15,040 --> 02:17:18,040
which is just fun too.

1343
02:17:18,040 --> 02:17:23,040
One other thing I learned. So when I braised these two pieces,

1344
02:17:23,040 --> 02:17:26,040
I thought I was very smart in my orientation.

1345
02:17:26,040 --> 02:17:31,040
I put them both flat down and braised it, soldered, whatever.

1346
02:17:31,040 --> 02:17:34,040
So the long pipes were on the same sides.

1347
02:17:34,040 --> 02:17:37,040
Being a little bit of a dingus,

1348
02:17:37,040 --> 02:17:40,040
forgetting of the fact that in order to connect them to the capacitor,

1349
02:17:40,040 --> 02:17:43,040
you have to flip them around so the two different lengths are different.

1350
02:17:43,040 --> 02:17:46,040
The two longer sides are on opposite ends.

1351
02:17:46,040 --> 02:17:50,040
Conveniently, I can flip one of them over

1352
02:17:50,040 --> 02:17:53,040
and just go to this other hole that already existed.

1353
02:17:53,040 --> 02:18:01,040
And that more or less makes it line up. So I can actually have the long sides that I didn't sandblast together.

1354
02:18:01,040 --> 02:18:06,040
Ah, details. I still have to shorten up one of these sides, unfortunately.

1355
02:18:06,040 --> 02:18:13,040
Wow, okay, half two is a strong word. I probably actually won't because I think this is an end of the copper roll.

1356
02:18:13,040 --> 02:18:16,040
I don't really want to cut it down and then retreat the outsides

1357
02:18:16,040 --> 02:18:21,040
just because it's a pain in the butt. So I may actually just leave it

1358
02:18:21,040 --> 02:18:26,040
and have one of the copper shifted like this.

1359
02:18:26,040 --> 02:18:29,040
Ah, sorry, no.

1360
02:18:29,040 --> 02:18:34,040
Like that. Haha, yes, like that.

1361
02:18:34,040 --> 02:18:37,040
The holes are almost lined up, but not quite.

1362
02:18:37,040 --> 02:18:41,040
So there'll be a little bit of an offset, but this has an offset, so whatever.

1363
02:18:41,040 --> 02:18:48,040
That's fine. So next step, do some swaging.

1364
02:18:48,040 --> 02:18:55,040
Alright, so as I had mentioned prior, you have four parts, four pieces,

1365
02:18:55,040 --> 02:18:58,040
not including the tube. Hold on.

1366
02:18:58,040 --> 02:19:04,040
They make this happen. For this type, there are other types where it's just one inner piece,

1367
02:19:04,040 --> 02:19:09,040
but these are the ones that I have. So you have the two inner pieces that go in.

1368
02:19:09,040 --> 02:19:14,040
You have your nut and you have the connection, or in this case, the union.

1369
02:19:14,040 --> 02:19:18,040
So I'll more or less tighten it down, hand tight.

1370
02:19:18,040 --> 02:19:24,040
So put it on. Step one. Step two, hand tighten it until it's like reasonably tight.

1371
02:19:24,040 --> 02:19:28,040
There's still some a little bit of movement in the fitting.

1372
02:19:28,040 --> 02:19:33,040
So normally Swagelock has standardized fitting procedures for these things

1373
02:19:33,040 --> 02:19:38,040
to allow you to continually reuse them with only slight tightening,

1374
02:19:38,040 --> 02:19:44,040
slight additional tightening steps. So for these, I'm going to go a little bit overboard with how much I'm tightening it down.

1375
02:19:44,040 --> 02:19:50,040
Not for this particular one, just because I'm going to be taking it apart to show you what happens

1376
02:19:50,040 --> 02:19:56,040
when I do it, but if I recall correctly, you're supposed to mark where it lines up

1377
02:19:56,040 --> 02:20:02,040
and then you tighten it down a particular amount for each tightening

1378
02:20:02,040 --> 02:20:06,040
and each removal and reattachment of the joint.

1379
02:20:10,040 --> 02:20:17,040
I'll go start with half just because that should be more than enough to make this wage engage.

1380
02:20:17,040 --> 02:20:22,040
So now undo it and if things have gone well,

1381
02:20:22,040 --> 02:20:29,040
well, they didn't go well. So that's fun.

1382
02:20:29,040 --> 02:20:33,040
Okay. Well, that didn't behave as I wanted it to.

1383
02:20:33,040 --> 02:20:37,040
Okay.

1384
02:20:37,040 --> 02:20:43,040
Time to try again. This copper pipe might actually be a little thin for this,

1385
02:20:43,040 --> 02:20:46,040
but at the moment, I don't have another option.

1386
02:20:46,040 --> 02:20:49,040
So it's going to be what I'm doing.

1387
02:20:49,040 --> 02:20:52,040
Let's skip it.

1388
02:20:52,040 --> 02:20:55,040
Three quarters of a turn roughly.

1389
02:20:55,040 --> 02:20:59,040
Okay. Now I'll loosen it off.

1390
02:20:59,040 --> 02:21:03,040
Okay. So yeah, that was really easy comparatively.

1391
02:21:03,040 --> 02:21:07,040
That should mean.

1392
02:21:07,040 --> 02:21:13,040
Okay. It's still pretty loose, but now this is attached to this part.

1393
02:21:13,040 --> 02:21:18,040
This copper pipe is definitely a little bit thin for this particular process.

1394
02:21:18,040 --> 02:21:22,040
But oh well, such as life. You can see that it's actually bulging here.

1395
02:21:22,040 --> 02:21:26,040
That's not great.

1396
02:21:26,040 --> 02:21:29,040
That probably just means I put the pipe too far back, whatever.

1397
02:21:29,040 --> 02:21:32,040
That's not the end of the world.

1398
02:21:32,040 --> 02:21:36,040
So let's clamp this down again.

1399
02:21:36,040 --> 02:21:40,040
And in general, every time you reattach, you have to tighten it more

1400
02:21:40,040 --> 02:21:46,040
to make sure you actually get a good seal. Eventually I will actually pressure test this.

1401
02:21:46,040 --> 02:21:51,040
Pretty sure these copper fittings aren't going to be where things leak.

1402
02:21:51,040 --> 02:21:54,040
Also, if I was actually doing this properly and it mattered,

1403
02:21:54,040 --> 02:21:57,040
it doesn't matter here. There's a little bit of water leakage.

1404
02:21:57,040 --> 02:22:04,040
I can just tighten it down more later. I'd be properly following the guidelines, treating all of the pipes correctly,

1405
02:22:04,040 --> 02:22:08,040
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But for this, it doesn't matter.

1406
02:22:08,040 --> 02:22:12,040
All right, next one.

1407
02:22:12,040 --> 02:22:29,040
Same steps. Put it on.

1408
02:22:29,040 --> 02:22:34,040
Tighten her down.

1409
02:22:34,040 --> 02:22:43,040
Okay, here I'll go again a little more than three quarters of a turn.

1410
02:22:43,040 --> 02:22:46,040
That's not going anywhere.

1411
02:22:46,040 --> 02:22:51,040
Primo. So now I have my two fittings that are connected and not even remotely straight,

1412
02:22:51,040 --> 02:22:56,040
but it doesn't matter because it's not connecting to anything even remotely straight.

1413
02:22:56,040 --> 02:23:01,040
I get to reconnect all of these two plates to the cap.

1414
02:23:01,040 --> 02:23:05,040
And of course, that's coming in.

1415
02:23:05,040 --> 02:23:11,040
All right, so this one goes this direction.

1416
02:23:11,040 --> 02:23:15,040
It's going to go hand tight for right now, and then I'll roughly line them up.

1417
02:23:15,040 --> 02:23:22,040
And this one has to go the opposite direction because, ha, details.

1418
02:23:22,040 --> 02:23:35,040
I will, after having to change my pants, take these two plates down to the same size,

1419
02:23:35,040 --> 02:23:38,040
eventually, just for ease of use.

1420
02:23:38,040 --> 02:23:43,040
I'm going to rest these on top of some plastic just to give isolation for the time being,

1421
02:23:43,040 --> 02:23:51,040
but eventually I want these two copper plates to be appropriately dimensioned.

1422
02:23:51,040 --> 02:23:55,040
Okay, tighten that bad boy down.

1423
02:23:55,040 --> 02:23:59,040
Get that roughly aligned.

1424
02:23:59,040 --> 02:24:03,040
Very much on the roughly...

1425
02:24:03,040 --> 02:24:06,040
Okay, cool.

1426
02:24:06,040 --> 02:24:12,040
So now it's going to sit super wank, super jank, super wankily-dankily.

1427
02:24:12,040 --> 02:24:16,040
Wow, okay, let's not include that.

1428
02:24:16,040 --> 02:24:20,040
Winga, winga, winga, winga, tell us the weekend.

1429
02:24:20,040 --> 02:24:26,040
Okay, my next problem. I have my two connections right here.

1430
02:24:26,040 --> 02:24:30,040
Then I have the two sides of the coil.

1431
02:24:30,040 --> 02:24:36,040
Hey, big shocker, they don't line up even remotely.

1432
02:24:36,040 --> 02:24:40,040
There are a couple of different ways to resolve this problem.

1433
02:24:40,040 --> 02:24:47,040
But realistically, how I'm going to solve this problem is with some jank pipe bending

1434
02:24:48,040 --> 02:24:51,040
lots of hope that I don't break the coil

1435
02:24:51,040 --> 02:24:56,040
because I don't really have enough free material to make another one.

1436
02:24:56,040 --> 02:24:59,040
Yay! So I'm going to make a couple of modifications.

1437
02:24:59,040 --> 02:25:02,040
One of them is I want to bend this pipe in a little,

1438
02:25:02,040 --> 02:25:08,040
and this one's going to have to probably come in and then straighten out over here or something like that.

1439
02:25:08,040 --> 02:25:12,040
I haven't exactly ironed out what this is going to be, and it's honestly going to be a lot of like,

1440
02:25:12,040 --> 02:25:19,040
hey, rule of thumbing it to ... eyeballing the crap out of it to see how it works.

1441
02:25:19,040 --> 02:25:23,040
Thankfully working with soft, annealed copper tubing, very easy.

1442
02:25:23,040 --> 02:25:30,040
I can just do it by hand. I just have to avoid crushing it because that's a thing you can do with copper tubing,

1443
02:25:30,040 --> 02:25:34,040
is hulk too much and just crush it.

1444
02:25:34,040 --> 02:25:38,040
Ha, whoops, ask me how I know. I've already done it once.

1445
02:25:39,040 --> 02:25:40,040
Whoops!

1446
02:25:42,040 --> 02:25:44,040
This is really annoying.

1447
02:25:48,040 --> 02:25:51,040
Okay, so realistically this is going to have to bend down,

1448
02:25:51,040 --> 02:25:54,040
come into here, and then straighten out and go in.

1449
02:25:54,040 --> 02:25:57,040
This might actually even be too long.

1450
02:25:58,040 --> 02:26:01,040
But, I'll grab the bender.

1451
02:26:01,040 --> 02:26:12,040
I'm going to try using this bender once.

1452
02:26:12,040 --> 02:26:15,040
Chances are I'm not going to use it after that.

1453
02:26:15,040 --> 02:26:26,040
I recall watching a Linus and I think a Jake struggle epically with this thing when they were using it.

1454
02:26:26,040 --> 02:26:30,040
For some, if I think it was for a hardline copper tubing video.

1455
02:26:30,040 --> 02:26:35,040
Which, haha, copper tubing, hardlining.

1456
02:26:35,040 --> 02:26:39,040
That's totally not something Linus is going to hate me for later.

1457
02:26:40,040 --> 02:26:44,040
Boilers, if you didn't actually watch my actual upgrade.

1458
02:26:44,040 --> 02:26:49,040
Yeah, that was probably a mistake.

1459
02:26:49,040 --> 02:26:53,040
I don't actually know how it went yet, because it hasn't happened.

1460
02:26:53,040 --> 02:26:56,040
I'm pretty sure the answer is not well.

1461
02:26:56,040 --> 02:27:01,040
Wow, this is really, really, really, really, really awkward to use.

1462
02:27:01,040 --> 02:27:02,040
Holy moly.

1463
02:27:05,040 --> 02:27:10,040
Okay, that's cool, I guess.

1464
02:27:10,040 --> 02:27:23,040
Okay, sure.

1465
02:27:23,040 --> 02:27:28,040
That didn't do even remotely what I wanted.

1466
02:27:28,040 --> 02:27:35,040
Because I want this to sit horizontal, I think.

1467
02:27:36,040 --> 02:27:39,040
I need to bend this up.

1468
02:27:39,040 --> 02:27:44,040
Oh god, that was literally the wrong, completely wrong bend.

1469
02:27:44,040 --> 02:27:47,040
That's unfortunate, thankfully.

1470
02:27:47,040 --> 02:27:53,040
Soft and yield copper. Yeah buddy, not straight, but it doesn't matter.

1471
02:27:53,040 --> 02:27:58,040
So let's just do one of these then.

1472
02:27:58,040 --> 02:28:02,040
I should have...

1473
02:28:02,040 --> 02:28:08,040
Dang it, I don't have my LTT water bottle that I used as a form.

1474
02:28:08,040 --> 02:28:14,040
Because I could, and it worked actually really, really, really, really well.

1475
02:28:17,040 --> 02:28:20,040
Okay, so that's that bend.

1476
02:28:20,040 --> 02:28:24,040
That gets it roughly in line this direction, which is nice.

1477
02:28:24,040 --> 02:28:28,040
Then I just have to do one of these. Oh my god.

1478
02:28:28,040 --> 02:28:30,040
Oh please.

1479
02:28:32,040 --> 02:28:35,040
That's mercy. That's mercy.

1480
02:28:50,040 --> 02:28:54,040
This is where I learned all the regrets that I'm about to have.

1481
02:28:54,040 --> 02:28:58,040
Okay, holy moly.

1482
02:28:58,040 --> 02:29:04,040
Okay. Lord, that was awful.

1483
02:29:04,040 --> 02:29:08,040
But it almost worked. That's entertaining.

1484
02:29:08,040 --> 02:29:12,040
I'm going to flip it over because I've essentially lined it up to be that now.

1485
02:29:12,040 --> 02:29:16,040
Wow, that went much better than I expected.

1486
02:29:16,040 --> 02:29:22,040
So I need a little more bend here. Oh god.

1487
02:29:22,040 --> 02:29:26,040
It's fine.

1488
02:29:26,040 --> 02:29:30,040
It's fine. It's fine.

1489
02:29:30,040 --> 02:29:34,040
I definitely didn't crush the tube a bit.

1490
02:29:34,040 --> 02:29:38,040
Okay, so that's actually really, really, really, really close.

1491
02:29:38,040 --> 02:29:44,040
So I have this fitting to there. And then this one just needs to straighten it out down here.

1492
02:29:44,040 --> 02:29:48,040
Holy moly, that's a sharp bend, which is not great.

1493
02:30:00,040 --> 02:30:02,040
Maybe.

1494
02:30:04,040 --> 02:30:08,040
No, I need to bend it down more.

1495
02:30:08,040 --> 02:30:14,040
It's getting there.

1496
02:30:14,040 --> 02:30:20,040
How's that? That's actually probably close enough.

1497
02:30:20,040 --> 02:30:26,040
Yeah, that'll do. Okay, now I just have to cut this down and then do some jank.

1498
02:30:26,040 --> 02:30:30,040
So I'll cut it like there.

1499
02:30:30,040 --> 02:30:34,040
Whee! More pipe cutting.

1500
02:30:34,040 --> 02:30:44,040
Oh, this is going to suck now. That's really shitty.

1501
02:30:44,040 --> 02:30:50,040
The reason this is going to suck now. Oh, never mind.

1502
02:30:50,040 --> 02:30:56,040
I cleared it because the two pipes aren't parallel.

1503
02:30:56,040 --> 02:31:00,040
Thankfully it doesn't matter because soft copper is soft and I can just make it work.

1504
02:31:06,040 --> 02:31:12,040
There it goes.

1505
02:31:12,040 --> 02:31:16,040
Okay. A little bit of deburring.

1506
02:31:26,040 --> 02:31:30,040
Okay. Okay.

1507
02:31:34,040 --> 02:31:38,040
Wow, that actually worked. Holy moly.

1508
02:31:38,040 --> 02:31:42,040
I have a coil! It's not straight.

1509
02:31:44,040 --> 02:31:48,040
It's straight when the capacitor is sideways. That's fine.

1510
02:31:48,040 --> 02:31:52,040
I can fix that later. That's a low priority problem.

1511
02:31:58,040 --> 02:32:02,040
Alright, hand tight.

1512
02:32:04,040 --> 02:32:12,040
Hand tight. And then just for the sake of consistency, I know there is a correct way.

1513
02:32:12,040 --> 02:32:16,040
And it's nowhere near as much as I'm doing it. I don't care.

1514
02:32:18,040 --> 02:32:22,040
Let's go to three quarter.

1515
02:32:22,040 --> 02:32:24,040
Perfect.

1516
02:32:28,040 --> 02:32:36,040
I'm only going to do this one to half. Because in order to test this, I need to put a matching transformer on it.

1517
02:32:36,040 --> 02:32:40,040
Which means I need to take one of these off. Ha!

1518
02:32:40,040 --> 02:32:44,040
So close. But wait, I actually might...

1519
02:32:44,040 --> 02:32:48,040
No, I shouldn't take both off. That's fine.

1520
02:32:48,040 --> 02:32:52,040
That doesn't mean I'm taking these... These screws.

1521
02:32:52,040 --> 02:32:56,040
Wrenches. With me.

1522
02:32:58,040 --> 02:33:00,040
Good enough.

1523
02:33:02,040 --> 02:33:06,040
Neither of those are going anywhere. Good, good, good.

1524
02:33:06,040 --> 02:33:12,040
Taking these with me. I should not need any more stuff.

1525
02:33:12,040 --> 02:33:16,040
In terms of the cutting or the bending or the blah, blah, blah.

1526
02:33:16,040 --> 02:33:20,040
Because all of the other connections on this setup are going to be plastic.

1527
02:33:20,040 --> 02:33:24,040
Because I don't want to short this to everything else. That would be very bad.

1528
02:33:24,040 --> 02:33:28,040
I've gotten everything assembled together. And this is where things start getting a little scary.

1529
02:33:28,040 --> 02:33:32,040
So... Nope.

1530
02:33:32,040 --> 02:33:36,040
I have my first driver circuit.

1531
02:33:36,040 --> 02:33:40,040
Powering the second driver circuit. Going into the IGBT blocks.

1532
02:33:40,040 --> 02:33:44,040
Which takes power through this full board rectifier.

1533
02:33:44,040 --> 02:33:50,040
I have a nice current clamp. Which can give me a current reading times ten.

1534
02:33:50,040 --> 02:33:54,040
On that. I also have another meter for voltage.

1535
02:33:54,040 --> 02:34:00,040
And I have a variac. So I can drop what the voltage going into this is.

1536
02:34:00,040 --> 02:34:04,040
So I'm not going at 120 or half the bat. After that it goes into this.

1537
02:34:04,040 --> 02:34:10,040
I have a nice capacitor here. And then the outputs of this go into this driving toroid.

1538
02:34:10,040 --> 02:34:18,040
Which is probably not great. And that couples to the work coil and the tank capacitor.

1539
02:34:18,040 --> 02:34:22,040
So that's all set up and fun.

1540
02:34:22,040 --> 02:34:26,040
Now for the glorious time. I'm turning the freaking thing on.

1541
02:34:26,040 --> 02:34:30,040
So first off.

1542
02:34:30,040 --> 02:34:34,040
Watching the current. As I turn on the variac.

1543
02:34:34,040 --> 02:34:40,040
It's going to peak and then come back down. That is just from charging this capacitor.

1544
02:34:40,040 --> 02:34:44,040
I believe at this particular juncture.

1545
02:34:44,040 --> 02:34:48,040
That variac is at about 70 volts. I'm currently set to DC.

1546
02:34:48,040 --> 02:34:56,040
So probing across that. I'm looking at a nice 77 volts DC.

1547
02:34:56,040 --> 02:35:00,040
Okay. I then have turned that off for this.

1548
02:35:00,040 --> 02:35:04,040
This is the power supply for the driving circuits.

1549
02:35:04,040 --> 02:35:10,040
So when I turn that on. The thing to watch is that number right there.

1550
02:35:10,040 --> 02:35:14,040
And to see if the variac starts smoking again.

1551
02:35:14,040 --> 02:35:18,040
Holy crap.

1552
02:35:18,040 --> 02:35:24,040
Okay. I am fairly sure that was the variac.

1553
02:35:24,040 --> 02:35:32,040
And if that current clamp is correct. I was drawing 22 amps.

1554
02:35:32,040 --> 02:35:38,040
Somehow. That should have blown a long list of breakers.

1555
02:35:38,040 --> 02:35:42,040
Or safeties. Number one.

1556
02:35:42,040 --> 02:35:48,040
With that freaking fuse. Which is clearly not doing a damn thing.

1557
02:35:48,040 --> 02:35:56,040
Okay. Okay then.

1558
02:35:56,040 --> 02:36:02,040
If that wasn't actually about to vibrate off of the freaking table.

1559
02:36:02,040 --> 02:36:08,040
I would have done some more testing. But at the moment I kind of can't.

1560
02:36:08,040 --> 02:36:12,040
Just do a little bit of measuring. That's not too hot.

1561
02:36:12,040 --> 02:36:16,040
That's relatively warm.

1562
02:36:16,040 --> 02:36:20,040
That's fine. That's fine.

1563
02:36:20,040 --> 02:36:24,040
That's fine. Very not clean.

1564
02:36:24,040 --> 02:36:28,040
Not. Seems to not be too hot.

1565
02:36:28,040 --> 02:36:34,040
But. Troubleshooting to follow.

1566
02:36:34,040 --> 02:36:38,040
Now's the time to actually start assembling everything together.

1567
02:36:38,040 --> 02:36:42,040
And quite possibly in the case too. I made a couple of realizations here and there.

1568
02:36:42,040 --> 02:36:46,040
Through some testing. Number one.

1569
02:36:46,040 --> 02:36:52,040
The driving coil. The coupling transformer between the driving circuit.

1570
02:36:52,040 --> 02:36:56,040
Or the power circuit. And the work tank.

1571
02:36:56,040 --> 02:37:00,040
I pretty much shorted it. Not actually but I was running.

1572
02:37:00,040 --> 02:37:06,040
According to the impedance of it. I was running probably north of like 30 amps.

1573
02:37:06,040 --> 02:37:10,040
Through it at peak. I think some breakers in testing.

1574
02:37:10,040 --> 02:37:14,040
I swapped it out. Swapped out the cable.

1575
02:37:14,040 --> 02:37:20,040
Which I might have somewhere. I swapped out the thinner gauge cable that I used for testing.

1576
02:37:20,040 --> 02:37:24,040
With my six gauge super chonker wire.

1577
02:37:24,040 --> 02:37:28,040
I crimped on some nice beef cake terminals.

1578
02:37:28,040 --> 02:37:34,040
Terminations on the two ends. And I wound this up so it shouldn't overdraw current.

1579
02:37:34,040 --> 02:37:38,040
While still powering this with plenty of room to spare.

1580
02:37:40,040 --> 02:37:46,040
I also have a water cooling setup. Because now that I'm actually looking at doing full power tests.

1581
02:37:46,040 --> 02:37:49,040
This work coil is going to heat up really fast.

1582
02:37:49,040 --> 02:37:54,040
Though it only has like .08 of an O or something insane like that.

1583
02:37:54,040 --> 02:37:57,040
When you're running hundreds of amps through it.

1584
02:37:57,040 --> 02:38:01,040
That still adds up really fast to a lot of power.

1585
02:38:01,040 --> 02:38:08,040
So I need to actually water cool stuff. Where things are going to start having big problems.

1586
02:38:08,040 --> 02:38:13,040
I'm also going to swap to my nice little janktastic power supply.

1587
02:38:13,040 --> 02:38:16,040
That has given it's life for this project.

1588
02:38:16,040 --> 02:38:20,040
To drive the driving circuitry.

1589
02:38:20,040 --> 02:38:26,040
And I have our nice 240 to 120 adapter power cable.

1590
02:38:26,040 --> 02:38:29,040
Which we don't use for anything. Because it's really unsafe.

1591
02:38:29,040 --> 02:38:33,040
So explicitly use it. Because you know you need to use it.

1592
02:38:33,040 --> 02:38:36,040
Now I'm going to go to a bunch of putting stuff together.

1593
02:38:36,040 --> 02:38:40,040
And I'll talk to you when everything's assembled. Everything's all hooked up.

1594
02:38:40,040 --> 02:38:43,040
Now I get to do a quick leak check.

1595
02:38:43,040 --> 02:38:47,040
Because I don't trust this.

1596
02:38:47,040 --> 02:38:49,040
And I don't trust this.

1597
02:38:53,040 --> 02:38:57,040
Alright now it's time to do a leak check. After hooking everything up.

1598
02:38:57,040 --> 02:39:00,040
Out of the case.

1599
02:39:00,040 --> 02:39:05,040
I trust these fittings over here. On the water on the res.

1600
02:39:05,040 --> 02:39:09,040
I do not trust these in the slightest. So I have a nice little catch underneath.

1601
02:39:09,040 --> 02:39:15,040
Just in case it leaks. And then I don't really trust these wage lock fittings on these pipes.

1602
02:39:15,040 --> 02:39:19,040
I feel like the soft copper is too soft. For these to work properly.

1603
02:39:19,040 --> 02:39:23,040
So these very well may leak. And I may have to swap these out for something else.

1604
02:39:23,040 --> 02:39:26,040
Across that bridge if I have to. I'm hoping I won't.

1605
02:39:26,040 --> 02:39:33,040
But I definitely want to leak check. Before I go and put like hundreds of volts across here.

1606
02:39:33,040 --> 02:39:38,040
And then have water leaking. Because that's just begging for a tremendous disaster.

1607
02:39:41,040 --> 02:39:45,040
But now I get to have the adventure of actually making it happen.

1608
02:39:51,040 --> 02:39:53,040
Alright.

1609
02:39:54,040 --> 02:39:57,040
This bad boy up.

1610
02:40:00,040 --> 02:40:02,040
Actually going to disconnect.

1611
02:40:06,040 --> 02:40:08,040
These PCIe plugs.

1612
02:40:11,040 --> 02:40:16,040
Come in. There you go. And plug in a little more leaks.

1613
02:40:17,040 --> 02:40:24,040
Conveniently this power supply is old enough that it still has that.

1614
02:40:27,040 --> 02:40:28,040
Okay.

1615
02:40:30,040 --> 02:40:31,040
Go.

1616
02:40:33,040 --> 02:40:37,040
I guess that hole is actually small enough that I will use the proper filler.

1617
02:40:46,040 --> 02:40:47,040
Okay.

1618
02:40:55,040 --> 02:40:58,040
I likely will not have to top this up.

1619
02:40:58,040 --> 02:41:04,040
I think the volume of this loop is small enough that I don't have to care.

1620
02:41:08,040 --> 02:41:15,040
Okay. Conveniently I also have a nice little thumb switch for this power supply.

1621
02:41:15,040 --> 02:41:16,040
But here we go.

1622
02:41:19,040 --> 02:41:23,040
Turned off the power supply. Here we go again.

1623
02:41:26,040 --> 02:41:28,040
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1624
02:41:30,040 --> 02:41:33,040
And off. So far so good.

1625
02:41:33,040 --> 02:41:36,040
Nothing is immediately leaking.

1626
02:41:36,040 --> 02:41:43,040
That's a win. There's also very little resistance in this loop overall with the power of this pump.

1627
02:41:44,040 --> 02:41:47,040
So that's playing to my benefit as well.

1628
02:41:48,040 --> 02:41:54,040
All right. I'm going to cap this in case this decides to tip itself over in classic.

1629
02:41:54,040 --> 02:42:02,040
If anything go wrong, can go in there. I'm just going to cap this off just in case in classic Murphy's Law fashion,

1630
02:42:02,040 --> 02:42:05,040
anything that's going to go wrong will go wrong.

1631
02:42:07,040 --> 02:42:11,040
Pump this on that one more time. Just let it run for a bit.

1632
02:42:11,040 --> 02:42:16,040
In the long run, I'll likely put one of the return up here.

1633
02:42:17,040 --> 02:42:24,040
So I will hopefully be able to actually drain the loop so I can swap the coil out.

1634
02:42:28,040 --> 02:42:31,040
That looks pretty good. Okay.

1635
02:42:32,040 --> 02:42:34,040
Nothing is leaking.

1636
02:42:35,040 --> 02:42:37,040
Nothing is leaking.

1637
02:42:38,040 --> 02:42:46,040
Parimo. Okay. This is now a very much safety glasses and do not try at home territory.

1638
02:42:48,040 --> 02:42:51,040
Take everything, plug it all in.

1639
02:42:53,040 --> 02:43:00,040
Before I do that, just going to remove everything metal from close by.

1640
02:43:07,040 --> 02:43:20,040
These are very much not voltage rated, but they're better than nothing.

1641
02:43:20,040 --> 02:43:22,040
I know they're not voltage rated.

1642
02:43:23,040 --> 02:43:26,040
So it will not act as though they are.

1643
02:43:26,040 --> 02:43:31,040
We have the gas, people over clubs. Again, not ESD rated.

1644
02:43:31,040 --> 02:43:34,040
And I'm not going to treat them like they are.

1645
02:43:34,040 --> 02:43:42,040
But for the first time I'm setting this up, it is better than nothing.

1646
02:43:43,040 --> 02:43:52,040
So welding glove inside butyl rubber glove is going to be the best I'm going to get.

1647
02:43:53,040 --> 02:43:59,040
I'm going to actually get the other hand. I have now made it so the power supply will stay on.

1648
02:44:00,040 --> 02:44:05,040
So I will likely do control of the overall system from the variac.

1649
02:44:05,040 --> 02:44:07,040
So that's the power on the power side.

1650
02:44:08,040 --> 02:44:09,040
At four amps.

1651
02:44:11,040 --> 02:44:14,040
Yeah, that's like workable.

1652
02:44:15,040 --> 02:44:21,040
That's four amps at probably about 20 volts DC-ish or 15 volts AC.

1653
02:44:21,040 --> 02:44:23,040
So let's hit it.

1654
02:44:24,040 --> 02:44:26,040
Hit it. Okay.

1655
02:44:27,040 --> 02:44:31,040
Nothing. Right. Didn't turn on the current line.

1656
02:44:31,040 --> 02:44:34,040
That's right.

1657
02:44:34,040 --> 02:44:37,040
Okay. Let's turn that off.

1658
02:44:37,040 --> 02:44:39,040
Re-zero this.

1659
02:44:44,040 --> 02:44:47,040
Right. Didn't turn on the power supply.

1660
02:44:50,040 --> 02:44:55,040
Driving circuitry is on. Variac is on.

1661
02:44:55,040 --> 02:44:58,040
Four amps. Primo.

1662
02:44:58,040 --> 02:45:01,040
Primo. Perfect. Awesome.

1663
02:45:04,040 --> 02:45:10,040
So it's only drawing two amps now because putting the steel bar in loads the work coil more.

1664
02:45:13,040 --> 02:45:17,040
I'm just going to let this sit for a bit. It's warm.

1665
02:45:17,040 --> 02:45:19,040
Heck yeah bud.

1666
02:45:20,040 --> 02:45:22,040
Heck yeah bud. Okay.

1667
02:45:23,040 --> 02:45:28,040
Let's do a little more. So this thing is definitely not rated for anywhere near 20 amps.

1668
02:45:28,040 --> 02:45:32,040
Because it's already starting to sound unhappy. Let's do the thing.

1669
02:45:33,040 --> 02:45:36,040
Holy crap. Yeah, that's hot.

1670
02:45:36,040 --> 02:45:40,040
Not burning you hot, but uncomfortable to touch hot.

1671
02:45:41,040 --> 02:45:43,040
Ha ha ha.

1672
02:45:44,040 --> 02:45:46,040
It does the thing.

1673
02:45:47,040 --> 02:45:52,040
Heck yeah buddy. Kind of want to try to heat something up enough that you can see it.

1674
02:45:54,040 --> 02:45:57,040
This is too, probably a little too thick.

1675
02:46:07,040 --> 02:46:12,040
Okay. This is probably some grade of stainless.

1676
02:46:15,040 --> 02:46:19,040
Yeah, it's already pulled down quite a bit. So I'll stick this in.

1677
02:46:19,040 --> 02:46:23,040
Oh, it's still going. No, that's not smart, but whatever.

1678
02:46:29,040 --> 02:46:34,040
Ha. So that does pretty much nothing.

1679
02:46:34,040 --> 02:46:37,040
Conveniently the IGBT blocks are not very hot.

1680
02:46:39,040 --> 02:46:44,040
But that's probably because they're just hilariously under their rated spec right now.

1681
02:46:44,040 --> 02:46:48,040
This is operating at maybe 30 volts or 40 volts.

1682
02:46:48,040 --> 02:46:52,040
Yeah, it's hot, but this is not really for a magnetic.

1683
02:46:52,040 --> 02:46:56,040
So it doesn't heat up nearly as quickly. All right, let's go back to the bar.

1684
02:46:56,040 --> 02:46:59,040
And this is well below what this setup can handle.

1685
02:46:59,040 --> 02:47:02,040
Especially now that I've water cooled the coil.

1686
02:47:03,040 --> 02:47:07,040
Other than the fact that the variac is buzzing like nobody's fricking business.

1687
02:47:07,040 --> 02:47:10,040
This thing can handle way more power.

1688
02:47:10,040 --> 02:47:16,040
So the metal is starting to discolor from it being so hot that it's oxidizing.

1689
02:47:17,040 --> 02:47:20,040
This is now no longer in touch test territory.

1690
02:47:21,040 --> 02:47:25,040
Yeah, so that's really hot.

1691
02:47:25,040 --> 02:47:31,040
I'm not touching that. There is zero chance in heck that I am touching that.

1692
02:47:33,040 --> 02:47:36,040
It smells hot, a little hot.

1693
02:47:40,040 --> 02:47:44,040
So that's fun. It works.

1694
02:47:45,040 --> 02:47:48,040
That was at 40 volts.

1695
02:47:53,040 --> 02:47:57,040
And this thing should be able to handle with no problem.

1696
02:47:59,040 --> 02:48:02,040
200 on the input.

1697
02:48:03,040 --> 02:48:08,040
This is going to be fun because that'll heat up really fast.

1698
02:48:09,040 --> 02:48:12,040
Just for just for kicks.

1699
02:48:13,040 --> 02:48:17,040
Everything should be safe now. I drained it.

1700
02:48:17,040 --> 02:48:21,040
I disconnected the thing.

1701
02:48:21,040 --> 02:48:26,040
I discharged it. Heck yeah buddy.

1702
02:48:26,040 --> 02:48:30,040
Okay, sick. Now my job is to fit this into the box.

1703
02:48:33,040 --> 02:48:36,040
Sorry for the hilariously shaky hand.

1704
02:48:36,040 --> 02:48:39,040
Found a couple of issues at the case.

1705
02:48:39,040 --> 02:48:44,040
And made a couple of parts that I realized are just not going to work in the slightest.

1706
02:48:45,040 --> 02:48:51,040
I cut out a couple of nice little sheets to act as fronts for in here.

1707
02:48:51,040 --> 02:48:56,040
That would go in here, hold these pipes in place and would work all hunky-dory.

1708
02:48:56,040 --> 02:49:01,040
But then I realized I wanted to be able to have these fully inside the case with this closed.

1709
02:49:01,040 --> 02:49:04,040
So these do literally nothing.

1710
02:49:04,040 --> 02:49:08,040
I'm going to have to swap these out and have some mounts on here instead,

1711
02:49:08,040 --> 02:49:14,040
which is just a little bit further back on this piece here instead of this front piece.

1712
02:49:14,040 --> 02:49:21,040
Second, I swapped which side these Molex power cables are for the fans.

1713
02:49:21,040 --> 02:49:24,040
This side is going to be really busy anyway.

1714
02:49:25,040 --> 02:49:30,040
This side is going to be really busy anyway. And honestly, I just don't want to have more stuff over here.

1715
02:49:30,040 --> 02:49:36,040
Third, I'm going to have to shorten those copper tubes, which is rather unfortunate.

1716
02:49:36,040 --> 02:49:39,040
I'm likely going to shorten both sides.

1717
02:49:40,040 --> 02:49:47,040
I'll probably cut it off around here on this side and then probably just shorten this up just a touch.

1718
02:49:47,040 --> 02:49:55,040
So I can have the capacitor sitting much closer to the front have enough room to run the tubes down and underneath this fan.

1719
02:49:55,040 --> 02:50:02,040
So I can have all three fans populated just to give myself some extra headroom for lots of power later if I need it.

1720
02:50:04,040 --> 02:50:07,040
But this is the very, very empty case.

1721
02:50:07,040 --> 02:50:11,040
It's good fun. There's going to be a couple more holes chopped into the front.

1722
02:50:11,040 --> 02:50:20,040
I'm going to open that up a ton for more airflow like we remove that center acrylic piece and install a whole bunch of other fun stuff.

1723
02:50:20,040 --> 02:50:24,040
And there is everything that's going to have to go in here.

1724
02:50:25,040 --> 02:50:27,040
I think one of the Starbucks cups.

1725
02:50:28,040 --> 02:50:33,040
Oh yeah, I also took those covers off from here because all I don't need them.

1726
02:50:34,040 --> 02:50:41,040
Anyway, so you'll lighter in case anyone was ever curious who hasn't worked with switch lock fittings before.

1727
02:50:42,040 --> 02:50:47,040
These compression parts do actually shrink when you crush it.

1728
02:50:47,040 --> 02:51:05,040
So the inner diameter of these holes reduced by a non-trivial fraction, which means I did some things that you definitely shouldn't do like hammer these pieces on to the copper tube to get it to fit again.

1729
02:51:05,040 --> 02:51:10,040
Ha! This is going to be a tall glass of things not to do at home.

1730
02:51:10,040 --> 02:51:16,040
Let's just ignore the horrific, horrific, horrific, awful things that I've done to this poor power supply.

1731
02:51:16,040 --> 02:51:26,040
I will make it significantly less gross eventually, but right now I just needed to get rid of a ton of cabling because I thought I didn't have a lot of space.

1732
02:51:26,040 --> 02:51:28,040
Turns out I kind of do.

1733
02:51:29,040 --> 02:51:34,040
I might actually be able to fit the gigantic capacitor in this just for shits and giggles because I can.

1734
02:51:34,040 --> 02:51:44,040
We'll see. But back here is going to be all of the cooling, all of the water cooling runs, as well as the power inputs.

1735
02:51:44,040 --> 02:51:48,040
So this is going to be the main power for the high power side.

1736
02:51:48,040 --> 02:51:53,040
Goes into the switch, which goes into these breakers, which may or may not be high rated enough.

1737
02:51:53,040 --> 02:51:55,040
I have to do some math.

1738
02:51:56,040 --> 02:52:07,040
Goes out of the breakers into the three-phase full-bridge rectifier, which then is going to have to run underneath this chonk-tastic rad.

1739
02:52:07,040 --> 02:52:13,040
This fan and connect up here to the two bus bars on the inverter block.

1740
02:52:15,040 --> 02:52:22,040
I may end up plonking the humongous cap right here just for kicks if I can, if not, whatever.

1741
02:52:23,040 --> 02:52:33,040
But this is, yeah, so the inverter blocks here, that's going to be connected to these two caps unless I can fit the gigantic one in the back.

1742
02:52:33,040 --> 02:52:37,040
I have my two driving boards.

1743
02:52:37,040 --> 02:52:41,040
These very well may get moved over here.

1744
02:52:41,040 --> 02:52:50,040
I may end up shifting some stuff around just so I have more space to work with and extending these connections for the output of this board.

1745
02:52:50,040 --> 02:52:53,040
It goes into the inverter block.

1746
02:52:53,040 --> 02:52:57,040
Then I have my high power cap with the coupling toroid.

1747
02:52:57,040 --> 02:53:00,040
I'm almost certainly going to have to rewind this.

1748
02:53:00,040 --> 02:53:09,040
It's just too loose and with the amount of space I have in that area, all of this extra space is actually hurting me quite a bit.

1749
02:53:09,040 --> 02:53:16,040
Turns out I shot myself in the foot kind of aggressively and I cut these tubes really short.

1750
02:53:16,040 --> 02:53:23,040
So it's actually difficult to get this coupling transformer around the tubes.

1751
02:53:23,040 --> 02:53:26,040
Ha ha, whoops, let me learn.

1752
02:53:26,040 --> 02:53:34,040
Once that's set up, then the whatever work coil I'm using will connect onto these and that's the electronic side.

1753
02:53:34,040 --> 02:53:44,040
Then onto the water cooling side, I have Le Pomp, the gigantic, not res.

1754
02:53:44,040 --> 02:53:50,040
I have Le Pomp, the super thick boy Ikea rad.

1755
02:53:50,040 --> 02:53:58,040
I have the capacitor line or the capacitor loop, which obviously is open right now because the coil needs to be on it.

1756
02:53:58,040 --> 02:54:02,040
Then I have the inverter block loop.

1757
02:54:02,040 --> 02:54:08,040
My current thought is I want to make sure that that cap doesn't get too hot because it is expensive and difficult to source.

1758
02:54:08,040 --> 02:54:13,040
Everything else in here is much easier to replace, so I want to make sure that that stays cool enough.

1759
02:54:13,040 --> 02:54:21,040
So my plan is output of RAT, one of those I have yet, for computer devices.

1760
02:54:21,040 --> 02:54:29,040
The temperature drop across the radiator is generally speaking quite small and the temperature of your entire loop will be essentially equal.

1761
02:54:29,040 --> 02:54:41,040
For this, because I'm working in bursts, the order that I put the parts in actually matters or can matter.

1762
02:54:41,040 --> 02:54:50,040
So I want to have my most critical or my most temperature sensitive parts first and then continue down the chain.

1763
02:54:50,040 --> 02:54:54,040
So first thing is the cap, but that's going to be the output of the radiator.

1764
02:54:54,040 --> 02:54:57,040
So output of the radiator is going to go at the input of the capacitor loop.

1765
02:54:57,040 --> 02:55:05,040
The output of the capacitor loop is going to go to either the input of the inverter block loop or potentially the pump.

1766
02:55:05,040 --> 02:55:12,040
I haven't decided yet. And then the output of the pump is going to go either to this.

1767
02:55:12,040 --> 02:55:20,040
Well, yeah, in the case that the capacitor connects directly to the pump, the output of the pump goes to the inverter block.

1768
02:55:20,040 --> 02:55:28,040
The output of the inverter block goes back into the rad or you flip the pump and the inverter block.

1769
02:55:28,040 --> 02:55:31,040
We'll see, but it's coming together.

1770
02:55:31,040 --> 02:55:35,040
Holy crap. I still have a whole bunch of stuff to do up here.

1771
02:55:35,040 --> 02:55:39,040
I have to remove a whole bunch of this material, this metal.

1772
02:55:39,040 --> 02:55:45,040
I also have to put in a nice little power switch for actually turning on this circuit.

1773
02:55:45,040 --> 02:55:50,040
And then I have fairly easy access to this potentiometer.

1774
02:55:50,040 --> 02:56:02,040
I may end up desoldering this particular pot like this, this physical pot and reconnecting it to the front right beside the switch so I can adjust the frequency on the fly.

1775
02:56:02,040 --> 02:56:15,040
I will also still have, I also want to mount this bad boy to the front as well so I can read it, read out how much power is going into the system.

1776
02:56:15,040 --> 02:56:27,040
I'm not sure exactly where this is going to, this is going to end up yet because unfortunately I'm going to have to get this or that part right there.

1777
02:56:27,040 --> 02:56:38,040
So there's going to be some non-trivial wiring runs for that, but I think it's not pulling very much power so it doesn't matter too, too much.

1778
02:56:38,040 --> 02:56:47,040
I love it when a plan starts coming together. This is starting to actually look legit, which let's say I am a list-ducked, but it's coming together.

1779
02:56:47,040 --> 02:56:57,040
Hell yeah. Oh, late night. I will see you another day whenever I can find more time to actually finish this monster of a project.

1780
02:57:00,040 --> 02:57:06,040
I just experienced a couple of iterations of, oh yeah, right, if you're flipping something over, it's not necessarily the same.

1781
02:57:06,040 --> 02:57:11,040
But I started off having this as my capacitor holder.

1782
02:57:11,040 --> 02:57:14,040
It's just not great for a lot of reasons.

1783
02:57:14,040 --> 02:57:25,040
The sizing and the tolerances on all of these parts are just not good and the layer lines for the 3D prints are actually like scratching away at the paper on the capacitor.

1784
02:57:25,040 --> 02:57:34,040
So these, no bueno, also they're two separate parts, which was kind of nice for modularity and the ability to try to clamp it sideways, but that just didn't work out.

1785
02:57:34,040 --> 02:57:38,040
And I decided that I was only going to put two holes in the actual box itself.

1786
02:57:38,040 --> 02:57:42,040
So I redesigned it to be something like this.

1787
02:57:42,040 --> 02:57:46,040
So it'll sit, hopefully, nice and in there.

1788
02:57:46,040 --> 02:57:54,040
Have a little bit of wibble wobble, but I can put a top on it, clamp it down, Bob's your uncle good to go.

1789
02:57:54,040 --> 02:58:01,040
But when I went to make it, I made the bottom piece. This is not symmetric.

1790
02:58:01,040 --> 02:58:05,040
And this bottom piece printed off really well. It looks really good.

1791
02:58:05,040 --> 02:58:08,040
I printed the top piece at the same time. It looks great.

1792
02:58:08,040 --> 02:58:16,040
Except I, to make this, I just chopped the bottom off, which means the holes line up this way.

1793
02:58:16,040 --> 02:58:21,040
But when I go to put them together, the holes don't line up.

1794
02:58:21,040 --> 02:58:29,040
So I get to remake the top part because face palm, but it's nothing too bad.

1795
02:58:29,040 --> 02:58:36,040
I'm also going to, you know, make some additional chamfers and fillets to round off all of these edges on the outside of this part.

1796
02:58:36,040 --> 02:58:40,040
But that's on the printers right now. And once that's done, I'll get this together.

1797
02:58:40,040 --> 02:58:43,040
Also, this does fit onto the holes that I've made.

1798
02:58:43,040 --> 02:58:49,040
Other detail, I forgot to add chamfers to the bottoms of these holes.

1799
02:58:49,040 --> 02:58:57,040
So I'm going to get to do that in a sketchy fashion, let's say, but you'll get to see that soon.

1800
02:58:57,040 --> 02:59:03,040
Came up with several different ways to try to do this in varying levels of takes forever and sketchy.

1801
02:59:03,040 --> 02:59:08,040
This is kind of in the middle, more towards the sketchy side.

1802
02:59:08,040 --> 02:59:11,040
Just adding a nice little chamfer on the bottom. It'll be fine.

1803
02:59:11,040 --> 02:59:15,040
Famous last words, if ever have I said them.

1804
02:59:15,040 --> 02:59:17,040
Oh, right.

1805
02:59:28,040 --> 02:59:31,040
That actually works super well.

1806
02:59:31,040 --> 02:59:36,040
Nice little chamfer. Now this one's going to be a little more spicy except to move it along the cut.

1807
02:59:36,040 --> 02:59:40,040
But yeah, good.

1808
02:59:40,040 --> 02:59:44,040
Now it's as good a time as any to get to try.

1809
02:59:57,040 --> 03:00:11,040
Well, it's definitely not pretty, but that'll do.

1810
03:00:11,040 --> 03:00:16,040
Only doing this one time because after I do it once, it's not going to be as exciting.

1811
03:00:16,040 --> 03:00:20,040
So I know what's going to happen.

1812
03:00:20,040 --> 03:00:23,040
I have my variac plugged into a wall outlet.

1813
03:00:23,040 --> 03:00:32,040
The output of which is getting measured by a multimeter and also the full system through this little beast here.

1814
03:00:32,040 --> 03:00:35,040
This probably won't turn on until like 60 volts.

1815
03:00:35,040 --> 03:00:41,040
I'm guessing based on the ones I've used in the past.

1816
03:00:41,040 --> 03:00:47,040
In here, I have several layers of switching and power and stuff.

1817
03:00:47,040 --> 03:00:57,040
So the inlet from the variac or a wall outlet or whatever I'm putting into the system goes through this chunky switch contactor.

1818
03:00:57,040 --> 03:01:04,040
That contactor then goes through a breaker, which is rated, I believe at 16 amps.

1819
03:01:04,040 --> 03:01:08,040
I'm probably going to have to change it out at some point, but that's a later problem.

1820
03:01:08,040 --> 03:01:12,040
And then it goes into the actual system through direct fire and everything else.

1821
03:01:12,040 --> 03:01:16,040
These two are the first two main power on devices.

1822
03:01:16,040 --> 03:01:22,040
So I'm going to start with this off just to make sure that nothing crazy is happening.

1823
03:01:22,040 --> 03:01:29,040
And I'll start the variac very low, probably go up to about 80 to maybe 100 volts DC or AC.

1824
03:01:29,040 --> 03:01:35,040
And then I'll go back down, turn up, hit the switch and then start loading the whole system.

1825
03:01:35,040 --> 03:01:41,040
I'm not turning on the driving circuitry because I don't even have the work coil in here.

1826
03:01:41,040 --> 03:01:54,040
And I just don't want to mess with that. So safety glasses because some weirdness might happen.

1827
03:01:54,040 --> 03:01:58,040
That's fine. Don't worry about it. Okay, so power on.

1828
03:01:58,040 --> 03:02:03,040
So I'm getting like half of all AC, so pretty much nothing.

1829
03:02:04,040 --> 03:02:12,040
And just as a quick sanity check, let's go up to like 30.

1830
03:02:12,040 --> 03:02:17,040
Good enough. I want to measure in here.

1831
03:02:21,040 --> 03:02:27,040
Nothing perfect. So that means the contractor works as it should.

1832
03:02:27,040 --> 03:02:32,040
But you know, you'd rather check going to turn this back down.

1833
03:02:32,040 --> 03:02:36,040
And I'm going to hit the contractor to be on.

1834
03:02:36,040 --> 03:02:40,040
This is now hot. Okay.

1835
03:02:40,040 --> 03:02:44,040
Oh, let's see when this little bugger turns on.

1836
03:02:44,040 --> 03:02:48,040
Oh, okay.

1837
03:02:48,040 --> 03:02:51,040
That was unexpected.

1838
03:02:51,040 --> 03:02:57,040
This started vibrating right away, which I was definitely not expecting.

1839
03:02:57,040 --> 03:03:03,040
Something is not right. Okay. Time to do a little bit of measuring because something's not behaving.

1840
03:03:03,040 --> 03:03:07,040
0.3 volts there. Yeah. Okay. That makes sense.

1841
03:03:07,040 --> 03:03:25,040
Back at it again. I have now disconnected the coupling trolley because I have a sneaking suspicion that without a controlling signal coming from the driving circuits for the inverter block, it might try to be trying to short out through this coil.

1842
03:03:25,040 --> 03:03:28,040
So I'm just going to try disconnecting that entirely.

1843
03:03:28,040 --> 03:03:32,040
And then I will repeat what I have done before.

1844
03:03:32,040 --> 03:03:47,040
This time I'm actually just going to be measuring the DC side rather than the AC side because I already have a measurement on the AC side here after 45 volts.

1845
03:03:47,040 --> 03:03:52,040
So let's give her another little send.

1846
03:03:52,040 --> 03:03:58,040
Okay. So effectively nothing.

1847
03:03:58,040 --> 03:04:02,040
I don't like that because...

1848
03:04:02,040 --> 03:04:06,040
Yeah, that voltage drops way too fast.

1849
03:04:06,040 --> 03:04:09,040
Okay.

1850
03:04:09,040 --> 03:04:14,040
I guess I get to power the supply now.

1851
03:04:14,040 --> 03:04:18,040
I would rather not.

1852
03:04:18,040 --> 03:04:25,040
On the right side, I have a nice power switch to not drive the circuitry.

1853
03:04:25,040 --> 03:04:30,040
And also, if all else fails, I don't even have a work coil connected.

1854
03:04:30,040 --> 03:04:36,040
So nothing too, too bad should happen.

1855
03:04:36,040 --> 03:04:47,040
Okay. So let's hit this.

1856
03:04:47,040 --> 03:04:50,040
Okay, that fan just like cranks it.

1857
03:04:50,040 --> 03:04:57,040
But I'm wondering if that just does that anyway, even if there's no load at all.

1858
03:04:57,040 --> 03:05:02,040
Where, where, I'm probing across.

1859
03:05:02,040 --> 03:05:16,040
From there to there.

1860
03:05:16,040 --> 03:05:22,040
Okay, so that's my 12 volts on the gates on the drive side one.

1861
03:05:22,040 --> 03:05:30,040
And then on...

1862
03:05:30,040 --> 03:05:38,040
So there's nothing coming out of the initial, the first stage of my drive circuitry, which is great.

1863
03:05:38,040 --> 03:05:43,040
That probably means that this power supply is just always going to give her.

1864
03:05:43,040 --> 03:05:46,040
I'm kind of okay with that.

1865
03:05:46,040 --> 03:05:51,040
I might want to open up and give it a little more room to breathe, but that's a later problem.

1866
03:05:51,040 --> 03:06:08,040
So now what I want to do is turn it on again.

1867
03:06:08,040 --> 03:06:25,040
Okay, so it's measuring 0.2 volts and change still.

1868
03:06:25,040 --> 03:06:38,040
That was not good. I felt some tingles.

1869
03:06:38,040 --> 03:06:42,040
Something is isolated well enough here.

1870
03:06:42,040 --> 03:06:49,040
Okay, so what's my resistance to chassis?

1871
03:06:49,040 --> 03:06:55,040
That's a good first check.

1872
03:06:55,040 --> 03:07:00,040
2 mega ohms.

1873
03:07:00,040 --> 03:07:07,040
Negative, that's not a good start.

1874
03:07:07,040 --> 03:07:10,040
1.9 mega ohms.

1875
03:07:10,040 --> 03:07:22,040
This capacitor is probably still discharging.

1876
03:07:22,040 --> 03:07:31,040
I was right.

1877
03:07:31,040 --> 03:07:43,040
The capacitor is going to slightly recharge anyway.

1878
03:07:43,040 --> 03:07:48,040
Excuse me? What now?

1879
03:07:48,040 --> 03:07:51,040
That's not good.

1880
03:07:51,040 --> 03:08:01,040
23 kilo ohms is a little bit low.

1881
03:08:01,040 --> 03:08:11,040
Why is there only 14k to ground?

1882
03:08:11,040 --> 03:08:15,040
What?

1883
03:08:15,040 --> 03:08:19,040
Something's wrong.

1884
03:08:19,040 --> 03:08:23,040
Something is like legitimately wrong.

1885
03:08:23,040 --> 03:08:29,040
I'm just going to unplug this.

1886
03:08:29,040 --> 03:08:33,040
Oh, you're actually kidding me, right?

1887
03:08:33,040 --> 03:08:36,040
You're actually kidding me.

1888
03:08:36,040 --> 03:08:42,040
Okay, then.

1889
03:08:42,040 --> 03:08:55,040
So this thing is a disaster waiting to happen.

1890
03:08:55,040 --> 03:09:03,040
Just as a sanity check first. Holy shit.

1891
03:09:03,040 --> 03:09:08,040
Oh my god.

1892
03:09:08,040 --> 03:09:11,040
Okay then.

1893
03:09:11,040 --> 03:09:20,040
So this variac is going to kill someone.

1894
03:09:20,040 --> 03:09:25,040
I'm going to have to break this thing apart and figure out why it's doing what it's doing.

1895
03:09:25,040 --> 03:09:32,040
It is, it appears to be a dead short.

1896
03:09:32,040 --> 03:09:48,040
Oh god, sorry for the shake. The short between the ground pin and the AC pins.

1897
03:09:48,040 --> 03:09:54,040
Which is really bad.

1898
03:09:54,040 --> 03:09:57,040
Wow.

1899
03:09:57,040 --> 03:10:03,040
Okay.

1900
03:10:03,040 --> 03:10:16,040
I'm fairly sure that my chassis ground, which is the case, is going to be connected to earth here.

1901
03:10:16,040 --> 03:10:21,040
Oh no, I guess not.

1902
03:10:21,040 --> 03:10:24,040
Nope.

1903
03:10:24,040 --> 03:10:27,040
Holy moly.

1904
03:10:27,040 --> 03:10:35,040
I didn't actually do a screw to the coarser to the power supply.

1905
03:10:35,040 --> 03:10:40,040
Wow.

1906
03:10:40,040 --> 03:10:43,040
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

1907
03:10:43,040 --> 03:10:46,040
Okay, my sanity check is this.

1908
03:10:46,040 --> 03:10:52,040
I have a DC power supply that is not connected to any grounds on this thing anywhere.

1909
03:10:52,040 --> 03:10:57,040
It's plugged into the same thing as this one, the brain, the other power supply.

1910
03:10:57,040 --> 03:11:05,040
It doesn't matter. It skips the rectifier entirely, so the entire AC part of the system effectively doesn't exist.

1911
03:11:05,040 --> 03:11:15,040
What I get to check now is without weird ground loop shenanigans if the current is still flowing.

1912
03:11:15,040 --> 03:11:18,040
So using this supply, I can current limit it.

1913
03:11:18,040 --> 03:11:26,040
I should expect to see a very large increase in the current right away as the capacitors are all charged up.

1914
03:11:26,040 --> 03:11:32,040
And then once that's done, it should level off.

1915
03:11:32,040 --> 03:11:36,040
So let's turn it on.

1916
03:11:36,040 --> 03:11:45,040
Okay, 250 milliamps form.

1917
03:11:45,040 --> 03:11:58,040
So I have one amp, something is not correct here.

1918
03:11:58,040 --> 03:12:10,040
Something is not behaving. That one amp should drop down very fast.

1919
03:12:10,040 --> 03:12:13,040
See if anything is getting noticeably warm.

1920
03:12:13,040 --> 03:12:16,040
It does not appear that way.

1921
03:12:16,040 --> 03:12:25,040
Okay, next guess. I'm going to unplug this, disconnect a couple of the capacitors.

1922
03:12:25,040 --> 03:12:30,040
As long as I only touch one side, I don't have to worry about anything in particular.

1923
03:12:30,040 --> 03:12:33,040
I'm also going to just avoid touching the chassis.

1924
03:12:33,040 --> 03:12:38,040
Okay, this probably means it's not the very AC that's causing me the problem.

1925
03:12:38,040 --> 03:12:43,040
Hooray! More troubleshooting is fun.

1926
03:12:43,040 --> 03:12:47,040
I'm going to time-lapse this because it's not going to be the most thrilling thing on the planet.

1927
03:12:47,040 --> 03:12:52,040
I apologize for the wobbliness. I believe I have figured out the problem.

1928
03:12:52,040 --> 03:12:56,040
So I have this white and black wire.

1929
03:12:56,040 --> 03:13:04,040
Black is hot, white is neutral, or yeah, in this case positive and zero because it's DC, but whatever.

1930
03:13:04,040 --> 03:13:07,040
I think I got them backwards.

1931
03:13:07,040 --> 03:13:16,040
So I was essentially just dumping whatever my voltage was across the two diodes in each of these because I had them in parallel.

1932
03:13:16,040 --> 03:13:19,040
So I have flipped the things.

1933
03:13:19,040 --> 03:13:24,040
I've disconnected the capacitors just because I don't want to deal with them.

1934
03:13:24,040 --> 03:13:27,040
I still have this small tap so there still will be a little bit of inrush current.

1935
03:13:27,040 --> 03:13:37,040
But oh for my sanity, I had it wired right earlier and I think I had it wired right.

1936
03:13:37,040 --> 03:13:41,040
And oh for my sanity, I believe I had it wired right earlier.

1937
03:13:41,040 --> 03:13:47,040
Well, I know I had it wired right earlier because it was working at one point before I put it in this freaking box.

1938
03:13:47,040 --> 03:13:55,040
So I somehow pulled a big, a big dumb, dumb brain move and inverted it for some Godforsaken reason.

1939
03:13:55,040 --> 03:14:02,040
The way I'm going to check. Again, using the DC power supply just to remove variables.

1940
03:14:02,040 --> 03:14:10,040
Again, this should be a brief peak of current going in so it should go up for a bit as I'm increasing the voltage.

1941
03:14:10,040 --> 03:14:14,040
And then it should decrease down a ton.

1942
03:14:14,040 --> 03:14:20,040
Just turn that current limit to zero and let's go.

1943
03:14:20,040 --> 03:14:25,040
Hey, I had the wires backwards.

1944
03:14:25,040 --> 03:14:29,040
Damn it. On the bright side, very easy problem to fix.

1945
03:14:29,040 --> 03:14:32,040
On the not as bright side, I feel like a big dumb dumb.

1946
03:14:32,040 --> 03:14:39,040
So I'm going to attach a whole bunch of stuff together, get everything reassembled, and I'll see you back in a bit.

1947
03:14:40,040 --> 03:14:50,040
After that glorious massive troubleshooting, I will take one thing back that I said earlier.

1948
03:14:50,040 --> 03:14:55,040
The variac ground connected to neutral probably didn't cause my problem.

1949
03:14:55,040 --> 03:15:01,040
That being said, still not a good idea.

1950
03:15:01,040 --> 03:15:04,040
I know this in theory has no, it has no isolation.

1951
03:15:04,040 --> 03:15:12,040
What am I talking about? It has no isolation. The ground of this should not be connected to neutral.

1952
03:15:12,040 --> 03:15:16,040
Just kind of period. That's not a good idea.

1953
03:15:16,040 --> 03:15:19,040
Period.

1954
03:15:19,040 --> 03:15:25,040
Because lots of reasons. I will be addressing that and this will not be involved in the circuit in the long run.

1955
03:15:25,040 --> 03:15:31,040
And now I will have just be more aware that this chassis might get energized if...

1956
03:15:31,040 --> 03:15:35,040
Well, yeah, it could. It could get energized, which is just not so good.

1957
03:15:35,040 --> 03:15:42,040
Anyway, back at running this beast.

1958
03:15:42,040 --> 03:15:47,040
That was an interesting sound. That was hopefully something falling off the table.

1959
03:15:47,040 --> 03:15:50,040
Okay, doke skiddle-y-okly.

1960
03:15:50,040 --> 03:16:03,040
So this should now just work without all of this extra mucking about and being terrified of the fact that apparently there's a huge amount of current falling.

1961
03:16:04,040 --> 03:16:07,040
Duh, brain please.

1962
03:16:07,040 --> 03:16:20,040
I'm also like embarrassed and kind of laughing at myself that I got the polarity on the IGPT's wrong, but what can you do?

1963
03:16:20,040 --> 03:16:27,040
Alright, I'm again probing the DC side because I have this probe on the AC side.

1964
03:16:27,040 --> 03:16:36,040
I hooked up the capacitors again. I also hooked up the coupling toroid that would go to the work coil, but it's over here because I just...

1965
03:16:36,040 --> 03:16:41,040
One thing at a time. Turn the variac all the way down.

1966
03:16:41,040 --> 03:16:44,040
Switch it on. Cool.

1967
03:16:44,040 --> 03:16:50,040
That's looking good. And this is charging very slowly, which is nice.

1968
03:16:50,040 --> 03:16:53,040
Okay, so let's start powering up a bit.

1969
03:16:53,040 --> 03:16:56,040
Okay, that's good.

1970
03:16:57,040 --> 03:17:00,040
Switching ranges. There's a fly.

1971
03:17:00,040 --> 03:17:04,040
If it lands in the wrong spot, it's going to get poofed.

1972
03:17:06,040 --> 03:17:08,040
Okay, 23.

1973
03:17:10,040 --> 03:17:12,040
Just in case.

1974
03:17:17,040 --> 03:17:21,040
Okay, this is on now.

1975
03:17:21,040 --> 03:17:25,040
And we are drawing.

1976
03:17:25,040 --> 03:17:29,040
0.02 amps according to this.

1977
03:17:29,040 --> 03:17:33,040
So zero ampere, zero current essentially.

1978
03:17:33,040 --> 03:17:37,040
Obviously there's some because there's losses.

1979
03:17:50,040 --> 03:17:53,040
Still essentially zero current draw.

1980
03:17:55,040 --> 03:17:59,040
I'm not touching the chassis just because I don't want to mess with that.

1981
03:17:59,040 --> 03:18:05,040
68, 70, 80 volts.

1982
03:18:05,040 --> 03:18:09,040
Still drawing about zero.

1983
03:18:09,040 --> 03:18:14,040
So this is 59 volts. Yeah, that roughly checks out.

1984
03:18:18,040 --> 03:18:24,040
So when I turn this dial up, the current does go up a decent amount as it charges up the capacitors,

1985
03:18:24,040 --> 03:18:27,040
but because there's essentially nothing that's draining them,

1986
03:18:27,040 --> 03:18:30,040
the current drops down really, really fast.

1987
03:18:30,040 --> 03:18:36,040
If I removed the drain resistor, this current would probably be so low that it wouldn't be able to measure anything.

1988
03:18:36,040 --> 03:18:41,040
But I just want to get up to 120.

1989
03:18:41,040 --> 03:18:44,040
AC, not 120 DC.

1990
03:18:49,040 --> 03:18:52,040
90 volts, AC.

1991
03:18:54,040 --> 03:18:57,040
100 volts, AC.

1992
03:18:57,040 --> 03:19:00,040
So far, so good.

1993
03:19:03,040 --> 03:19:06,040
110.

1994
03:19:06,040 --> 03:19:12,040
And we're at outlet-ish, ish.

1995
03:19:12,040 --> 03:19:15,040
So you can see outlets giving me about 170 rectified.

1996
03:19:15,040 --> 03:19:21,040
That's just because of the peak-to-peak and shenanigans for transferring between them.

1997
03:19:21,040 --> 03:19:24,040
Just as one more sanity check here.

1998
03:19:24,040 --> 03:19:28,040
Again, I don't want to just touch the chassis.

1999
03:19:28,040 --> 03:19:32,040
Okay, the same voltage is also across the capacitors.

2000
03:19:32,040 --> 03:19:41,040
Yay, things are working. Okay, so let's power this down and turn it off.

2001
03:19:41,040 --> 03:19:49,040
The voltage is not going to drop very quickly, as I have mentioned several times before.

2002
03:19:49,040 --> 03:19:54,040
160 volts!

2003
03:19:54,040 --> 03:19:58,040
And this is going to take minutes to discharge.

2004
03:19:58,040 --> 03:20:02,040
But that's awesome. It worked.

2005
03:20:02,040 --> 03:20:09,040
Which means this whole setup is good, so I'm going to get the power meter mounted at the front so I can read it while I'm using it.

2006
03:20:09,040 --> 03:20:12,040
Time to once again release the ducts.

2007
03:20:20,040 --> 03:20:28,040
Don't mind the jank. There's a bolt stud in the way on the other side, so I have to go from the bottom.

2008
03:20:28,040 --> 03:20:31,040
Quick media change. Sorry about that.

2009
03:20:31,040 --> 03:20:34,040
So, variac is on.

2010
03:20:34,040 --> 03:20:37,040
Power meter.

2011
03:20:37,040 --> 03:20:43,040
Oh god, it's so difficult to read.

2012
03:20:43,040 --> 03:20:46,040
Currently drawing .2 amps.

2013
03:20:46,040 --> 03:20:50,040
2 volts AC, just because.

2014
03:20:50,040 --> 03:20:55,040
So, let's see if I can make it so you can see this little monstrosity.

2015
03:20:55,040 --> 03:21:02,040
Okay, so if I turn this on, it drops the current.

2016
03:21:02,040 --> 03:21:05,040
It drops the voltage so low that it no longer works.

2017
03:21:05,040 --> 03:21:08,040
That's awesome.

2018
03:21:08,040 --> 03:21:13,040
That's just absolutely fantastic.

2019
03:21:13,040 --> 03:21:16,040
Let's go a little higher then.

2020
03:21:16,040 --> 03:21:24,040
On the right side, I didn't hear any vibration in this.

2021
03:21:24,040 --> 03:21:27,040
So that's good.

2022
03:21:27,040 --> 03:21:30,040
Okay, 44 volts now.

2023
03:21:30,040 --> 03:21:33,040
Let's try that again.

2024
03:21:33,040 --> 03:21:39,040
So...

2025
03:21:39,040 --> 03:21:43,040
That's drawing a fat 60 amps at no load.

2026
03:21:43,040 --> 03:21:47,040
However, there's something very interesting here.

2027
03:21:47,040 --> 03:21:50,040
Watch the power factor.

2028
03:21:50,040 --> 03:21:57,040
It's skyrocketing, and the actual wattage is reading at zero.

2029
03:21:57,040 --> 03:22:03,040
So what that means is essentially all of the power that's getting brought in

2030
03:22:03,040 --> 03:22:08,040
is getting dumped back in, and it's almost entirely reactive power,

2031
03:22:08,040 --> 03:22:14,040
although I don't trust that wattage measurement in the slightest.

2032
03:22:14,040 --> 03:22:21,040
So, you know, whatever.

2033
03:22:21,040 --> 03:22:27,040
Okay, now let's do some heating testing.

2034
03:22:27,040 --> 03:22:29,040
So I have a nice par.

2035
03:22:30,040 --> 03:22:40,040
It shouldn't get hot, but I'd rather be careful.

2036
03:22:40,040 --> 03:22:47,040
So it was drawing 6 amps at about 36 volts DC, which is a lot.

2037
03:22:47,040 --> 03:22:51,040
Okay, so it's on.

2038
03:22:51,040 --> 03:22:55,040
As I'm loading it, the current is dropping.

2039
03:22:55,040 --> 03:22:58,040
Okay, you can't see a damn thing there.

2040
03:22:58,040 --> 03:23:05,040
So the power factor centers a little as I load it,

2041
03:23:05,040 --> 03:23:17,040
and the current drops like a stone to like 2 amps.

2042
03:23:17,040 --> 03:23:23,040
You can actually, hopefully, but probably can't see how much it changes

2043
03:23:23,040 --> 03:23:26,040
as I move this further in and out.

2044
03:23:26,040 --> 03:23:30,040
So it loads the work coil more or less.

2045
03:23:30,040 --> 03:23:34,040
That's pretty warm.

2046
03:23:39,040 --> 03:23:43,040
That's probably okay.

2047
03:23:43,040 --> 03:23:51,040
No, okay. Let's try.

2048
03:23:51,040 --> 03:23:55,040
Up to like 60.

2049
03:23:55,040 --> 03:24:04,040
I'm going to preload the work coil so I don't send the current into the actual stratosphere.

2050
03:24:04,040 --> 03:24:09,040
So that's still drawing 5 amps.

2051
03:24:09,040 --> 03:24:15,040
I hear a little bit of vibration out of the transformer now.

2052
03:24:15,040 --> 03:24:19,040
The paper is starting to smoke on this.

2053
03:24:31,040 --> 03:24:40,040
I'm actually just going to turn that off. I'm not sure what's burning off there, but clearly getting very hot and very fast.

2054
03:24:45,040 --> 03:25:08,040
Okay.

2055
03:25:08,040 --> 03:25:12,040
Switching to a slightly different bar steel just because

2056
03:25:12,040 --> 03:25:16,040
this shouldn't have any like random goodies on it.

2057
03:25:16,040 --> 03:25:19,040
Hopefully, we'll see.

2058
03:25:19,040 --> 03:25:26,040
Okay, let's do that again.

2059
03:25:26,040 --> 03:25:32,040
All right, so it's drawing about 3. something amps.

2060
03:25:32,040 --> 03:25:37,040
And it will go up to...

2061
03:25:37,040 --> 03:25:42,040
It actually goes down again. So it's still only at about 5 amps. That's pretty good.

2062
03:25:53,040 --> 03:25:59,040
Okay. I'm going to turn up the power a bit.

2063
03:25:59,040 --> 03:26:02,040
It's warm. It's warm.

2064
03:26:08,040 --> 03:26:13,040
It's really 85.

2065
03:26:13,040 --> 03:26:17,040
Yeah.

2066
03:26:17,040 --> 03:26:24,040
83.

2067
03:26:24,040 --> 03:26:29,040
You probably can't see the power meter at all, which I don't really like because that's kind of the whole fun.

2068
03:26:29,040 --> 03:26:32,040
That's the whole fun part.

2069
03:26:32,040 --> 03:26:36,040
So I'm going to do a little shimmy shimmy.

2070
03:26:36,040 --> 03:26:40,040
I'm trying to bring you down to the height where you can see it.

2071
03:26:40,040 --> 03:26:43,040
Oh my god, he's going to die again.

2072
03:26:43,040 --> 03:26:47,040
So you're tuning.

2073
03:26:47,040 --> 03:26:50,040
Oh, man, that backlight is awful. Holy moly.

2074
03:26:50,040 --> 03:26:53,040
Okay, so let's loosen this.

2075
03:26:53,040 --> 03:26:57,040
Correct.

2076
03:26:57,040 --> 03:27:03,040
Okay. And then I'm going to turn up the power meter.

2077
03:27:03,040 --> 03:27:07,040
And then I'm going to turn up the power meter.

2078
03:27:07,040 --> 03:27:11,040
And then I'm going to turn up the power meter.

2079
03:27:11,040 --> 03:27:15,040
And then I'm going to turn up the power meter.

2080
03:27:15,040 --> 03:27:19,040
Okay. And then I want to plug this in.

2081
03:27:19,040 --> 03:27:26,040
That would be kind of funny if it died right as the fun stuff happened.

2082
03:27:26,040 --> 03:27:30,040
As the fun stuff is going to happen soon.

2083
03:27:30,040 --> 03:27:33,040
Hopefully.

2084
03:27:39,040 --> 03:27:42,040
Okay.

2085
03:27:43,040 --> 03:27:49,040
So this needs to get plugged in.

2086
03:27:58,040 --> 03:28:01,040
All right.

2087
03:28:01,040 --> 03:28:11,040
So let us hit it with 83 volts to see that is quite one.

2088
03:28:11,040 --> 03:28:15,040
So the bar is already toasty.

2089
03:28:15,040 --> 03:28:18,040
I'm going to again preload the coil.

2090
03:28:18,040 --> 03:28:22,040
I need more room.

2091
03:28:22,040 --> 03:28:28,040
I don't want to be fighting anything here. Okay, so preload the coil.

2092
03:28:28,040 --> 03:28:32,040
Turn it on. How much current am I getting? Four amps.

2093
03:28:32,040 --> 03:28:35,040
Okay.

2094
03:28:35,040 --> 03:28:40,040
Up to five. Up to eight.

2095
03:28:40,040 --> 03:28:43,040
Okay, that's getting high.

2096
03:28:48,040 --> 03:28:52,040
It is starting to smell warm.

2097
03:28:58,040 --> 03:29:01,040
Decrease the load a little.

2098
03:29:02,040 --> 03:29:07,040
Yeah, something is a smoking.

2099
03:29:07,040 --> 03:29:13,040
I made a slight modification to one particular component.

2100
03:29:13,040 --> 03:29:22,040
Being the bar steel. I got rid of all of the mill scale on the part that's going to go into the coil.

2101
03:29:22,040 --> 03:29:25,040
Just so we have an easier time seeing what's going on.

2102
03:29:25,040 --> 03:29:30,040
And there's less likelihood of random stuff starting to smoke.

2103
03:29:30,040 --> 03:29:37,040
Okay. So I am looking at very low draw.

2104
03:29:37,040 --> 03:29:41,040
And let's hit it.

2105
03:29:45,040 --> 03:29:48,040
So four amps at 80 volts.

2106
03:29:48,040 --> 03:29:54,040
I mean, it's fairly stable. It's not as high as I would like.

2107
03:29:55,040 --> 03:29:58,040
Steel is definitely getting warm.

2108
03:30:01,040 --> 03:30:04,040
I'm also slightly confused why you aren't charging.

2109
03:30:11,040 --> 03:30:13,040
Oh.

2110
03:30:15,040 --> 03:30:19,040
Okay, sure. Alright, turn it up.

2111
03:30:20,040 --> 03:30:23,040
90 volts.

2112
03:30:23,040 --> 03:30:26,040
100 volts.

2113
03:30:26,040 --> 03:30:29,040
Again, I'm going to preload the coil.

2114
03:30:29,040 --> 03:30:32,040
Hopefully not trip a breaker.

2115
03:30:32,040 --> 03:30:35,040
Okay, preloading coil.

2116
03:30:35,040 --> 03:30:39,040
And turn off this backlight because it's hot poo poo poo poo.

2117
03:30:39,040 --> 03:30:44,040
On we go. I'm looking at five amps at 94 volts.

2118
03:30:44,040 --> 03:30:47,040
So this is dumping about 500 watts into the system.

2119
03:30:50,040 --> 03:30:53,040
What'll it go up to?

2120
03:30:53,040 --> 03:30:57,040
Six amps, seven amps, eight amps, nine amps.

2121
03:30:57,040 --> 03:31:02,040
If I reload the coil. Oh, okay, I can see the coil starting to discolor.

2122
03:31:04,040 --> 03:31:07,040
Okay, this is going to be a little bit of a load test.

2123
03:31:10,040 --> 03:31:14,040
So it peaks at eight amps at 100 volts.

2124
03:31:15,040 --> 03:31:19,040
That's a lot lower than I expected to be perfectly honest,

2125
03:31:19,040 --> 03:31:25,040
but hey, it's starting to get black. Alright, well, I'm going to turn this off and come back quickly.

2126
03:31:27,040 --> 03:31:32,040
Or am I? Oh, that coloration though.

2127
03:31:32,040 --> 03:31:37,040
Look at that. It's doing the thing.

2128
03:31:37,040 --> 03:31:41,040
Probably getting very close to getting red hot.

2129
03:31:44,040 --> 03:31:48,040
Current draws actually going down. Oh, it's getting really close to glowing.

2130
03:31:48,040 --> 03:31:51,040
Coloring though. Oh, it's so pretty.

2131
03:31:51,040 --> 03:31:56,040
Come on, you can do it. Just give me a little bit more.

2132
03:31:58,040 --> 03:32:02,040
Okay, I'm going to call it there. Whoa, it's hot.

2133
03:32:02,040 --> 03:32:05,040
This, this, this hot.

2134
03:32:05,040 --> 03:32:09,040
This hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. Eight amps at 100 volts.

2135
03:32:09,040 --> 03:32:13,040
I shouldn't blow the breaker at 120.

2136
03:32:13,040 --> 03:32:17,040
Okay, don't mind the million dollar server sound in the background.

2137
03:32:17,040 --> 03:32:24,040
On it goes. 11 amps unloaded because whoops, but seven amps loaded up.

2138
03:32:24,040 --> 03:32:29,040
So this is dumping about 7800 watts into this bar.

2139
03:32:29,040 --> 03:32:35,040
The voltage drop because of the voltage drop across the variac,

2140
03:32:35,040 --> 03:32:39,040
which I just realized I should probably look at and make sure isn't melting.

2141
03:32:39,040 --> 03:32:45,040
Okay, it's discoloring already. 1000 watts.

2142
03:32:45,040 --> 03:32:48,040
It's dropping back down.

2143
03:32:48,040 --> 03:32:54,040
700 watts. Getting that nice blue, almost white coloration on the steel.

2144
03:32:54,040 --> 03:33:00,040
Eight amps. So I don't expect this to melt it, melt the bar.

2145
03:33:00,040 --> 03:33:03,040
It might get it red hot. I honestly don't know.

2146
03:33:03,040 --> 03:33:07,040
If I was using a smaller bar of steel, it would probably stand a better chance.

2147
03:33:07,040 --> 03:33:14,040
Yeah, buddy. Don't know if you can see that nice, nice red glow.

2148
03:33:14,040 --> 03:33:17,040
Oh yeah, you can. Yeah, buddy.

2149
03:33:17,040 --> 03:33:23,040
That is some red hot steel from an induction heater on a wall outlet level of power.

2150
03:33:23,040 --> 03:33:28,040
Woo! Sorry for rip headphone users all that.

2151
03:33:28,040 --> 03:33:31,040
It's red hot. It did the thing.

2152
03:33:31,040 --> 03:33:38,040
Holy crap. I mean, it took a hot minute, but like, oh my God, it did the thing.

2153
03:33:39,040 --> 03:33:43,040
Woohoo! That's like legitimately very exciting.

2154
03:33:43,040 --> 03:33:46,040
I can feel the heat from here.

2155
03:33:46,040 --> 03:33:49,040
Like it's uncomfortably warm from here.

2156
03:33:49,040 --> 03:33:56,040
Yeah, buddy. So I was just poking around things in here just to give a little checky check.

2157
03:33:56,040 --> 03:34:01,040
This thing has no battery because of course it doesn't.

2158
03:34:01,040 --> 03:34:04,040
Well, that's fun. Whatever. This worked all right.

2159
03:34:04,040 --> 03:34:09,040
It's freaking hot. And a little bit warm.

2160
03:34:12,040 --> 03:34:16,040
Holy moly. What a mess.

2161
03:34:16,040 --> 03:34:20,040
I have made. Hit it harder.

2162
03:34:20,040 --> 03:34:24,040
Yeah. Yeah, it worked. Holy crap.

2163
03:34:24,040 --> 03:34:29,040
Also, I realized I think this is designed for thinner metal, but too late now.

2164
03:34:31,040 --> 03:34:35,040
So back at you with some other cool stuff that I learned during this project.

2165
03:34:35,040 --> 03:34:39,040
This is the other piece of the top of the case for the induction heater,

2166
03:34:39,040 --> 03:34:42,040
and this is steel that has been powder coated.

2167
03:34:42,040 --> 03:34:46,040
Powder coat is something that I'm not completely familiar with,

2168
03:34:46,040 --> 03:34:49,040
but essentially you take a really high voltage sprayer,

2169
03:34:49,040 --> 03:34:53,040
you hang whatever you're trying to coat on something that's negative,

2170
03:34:53,040 --> 03:35:01,040
and then you go and it sticks to it and cures and is a very tough, very robust coating.

2171
03:35:01,040 --> 03:35:06,040
Another fun thing about powder coat is you can etch it away with a laser.

2172
03:35:06,040 --> 03:35:13,040
So this is a Lichtenberg pattern that is not made using hilariously dangerous methods

2173
03:35:13,040 --> 03:35:17,040
and wood burning and stuff. Don't do that, please.

2174
03:35:17,040 --> 03:35:21,040
But I'm quite happy with how it turned out,

2175
03:35:21,040 --> 03:35:29,040
so I'm going to slap a really big one on the outside of the top of the case,

2176
03:35:29,040 --> 03:35:33,040
because I can, and why not? It'll be fun.

2177
03:35:45,040 --> 03:35:53,040
And with that, I pretty much have the induction heater part of this project more or less done.

2178
03:35:53,040 --> 03:35:58,040
We're going to give this a little bit of a touch up with some Scotch Brite or something like that

2179
03:35:58,040 --> 03:36:04,040
and give it a light coating of whey oil as well just to prevent any further oxidation.

2180
03:36:04,040 --> 03:36:07,040
But I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

2181
03:36:07,040 --> 03:36:16,040
Probably could have used a little bit more contrast, but looks pretty sick.

2182
03:36:16,040 --> 03:36:18,040
Heck yeah, but...

2183
03:36:20,040 --> 03:36:23,040
In my last endeavor of testing this system out,

2184
03:36:23,040 --> 03:36:30,040
I learned that this going through there and not being able to open this up is a gigantic pain.

2185
03:36:30,040 --> 03:36:35,040
So I'm planning on chopping off some metal on both sides of this

2186
03:36:35,040 --> 03:36:41,040
and also I'll recut this front piece to have it extend all the way up on both sides

2187
03:36:41,040 --> 03:36:46,040
and then have a top piece that bolts on that will fit there permanently.

2188
03:36:46,040 --> 03:36:49,040
I'll probably do a couple of heat set inserts into the back acrylic piece

2189
03:36:49,040 --> 03:36:54,040
so it's held in place when the system's running so it can't accidentally fall open.

2190
03:36:54,040 --> 03:36:58,040
But that'll just eliminate my inability to open this up

2191
03:36:58,040 --> 03:37:02,040
and access all the copper tubing and all the connections

2192
03:37:02,040 --> 03:37:08,040
without having to take it off first before opening it, which is just awful in every way.

2193
03:37:08,040 --> 03:37:13,040
So we'll have a mighty fun time with that today.

2194
03:37:13,040 --> 03:37:18,040
More of the duct machine as well, which is one of my new favorite tools.

2195
03:37:19,040 --> 03:37:32,040
I did some things, including but not limited to the chop,

2196
03:37:32,040 --> 03:37:36,040
which you may or may not have seen in a time lapse because it probably wasn't very interesting.

2197
03:37:36,040 --> 03:37:40,040
I also did a little bit more design because I needed to replace this piece of acrylic

2198
03:37:40,040 --> 03:37:46,040
with another more different piece of acrylic and another more different piece of acrylic.

2199
03:37:46,040 --> 03:37:52,040
I then cut out said other piece of acrylic and other more different piece of acrylic.

2200
03:37:52,040 --> 03:37:55,040
I then put some heat press inserts into it.

2201
03:37:55,040 --> 03:37:58,040
That was an adventure.

2202
03:37:58,040 --> 03:38:02,040
Yeah, just it was an adventure, but it's done.

2203
03:38:02,040 --> 03:38:05,040
So that's good. This one, I don't have to do anything to.

2204
03:38:05,040 --> 03:38:09,040
I'll just put some bolts through these to hold this on

2205
03:38:09,040 --> 03:38:12,040
and make this relatively rigid when it's mounted.

2206
03:38:12,040 --> 03:38:17,040
And I went to put it on. Okay, sweet, sweet.

2207
03:38:17,040 --> 03:38:21,040
Actually, I just realized another problem live, but that's that's for later.

2208
03:38:21,040 --> 03:38:25,040
First problem, I had this nice to line up.

2209
03:38:25,040 --> 03:38:34,040
However, it does not fit because these two bolts are interfering.

2210
03:38:34,040 --> 03:38:37,040
The other thing I just found out live is these heat press inserts.

2211
03:38:37,040 --> 03:38:44,040
I didn't get them all the way in. I'm going to have to do that because with the side that they are on,

2212
03:38:44,040 --> 03:38:47,040
they are sitting against the steel.

2213
03:38:47,040 --> 03:38:51,040
So they have to be flush or past flush.

2214
03:38:51,040 --> 03:38:54,040
So two things to fix.

2215
03:38:54,040 --> 03:38:57,040
Well, to the whoops bud.

2216
03:38:57,040 --> 03:39:01,040
So two things to fix now.

2217
03:39:01,040 --> 03:39:05,040
Gonna have to cut out a little bit of extra steel here and here.

2218
03:39:05,040 --> 03:39:13,040
I'll do that with the duck saw that I'm now calling it because it's awesome.

2219
03:39:13,040 --> 03:39:17,040
And the other thing I'm going to have to do is press these inserts in.

2220
03:39:17,040 --> 03:39:24,040
And the other thing I'm going to have to do is press these inserts in further

2221
03:39:24,040 --> 03:39:31,040
until at least flush or past flush and remove any material that's proud of this flat plane.

2222
03:39:31,040 --> 03:39:38,040
So that'll fit tight against there and I can tighten this down onto it.

2223
03:39:38,040 --> 03:39:41,040
So this will be fun.

2224
03:39:41,040 --> 03:39:48,040
Yes, I'm just going to do it.

2225
03:39:48,040 --> 03:39:52,040
Actually, I should measure the surface because rain.

2226
03:39:52,040 --> 03:39:57,040
Sometimes I have one.

2227
03:39:57,040 --> 03:40:03,040
But only sometimes do I have a brain.

2228
03:40:03,040 --> 03:40:08,040
For example, right now I don't really have a brain.

2229
03:40:08,040 --> 03:40:11,040
Okay, that's good.

2230
03:40:11,040 --> 03:40:18,040
That's a mark and that's a mark.

2231
03:40:18,040 --> 03:40:23,040
RIP headphone users for this entire bill.

2232
03:40:24,040 --> 03:40:29,040
Now time for the other adventure, which I will actually show you this time because

2233
03:40:29,040 --> 03:40:33,040
yeah, why not? It's fine.

2234
03:40:33,040 --> 03:40:39,040
Come join me for the fun. I have the saugering iron cranked up to a bajillion degrees.

2235
03:40:39,040 --> 03:40:42,040
And then I just shove it into the acrylic.

2236
03:40:42,040 --> 03:40:52,040
That's it. And then sit and wait for literally like eons.

2237
03:40:52,040 --> 03:40:55,040
I feel like it doesn't really like melting.

2238
03:40:55,040 --> 03:41:00,040
Also, I'm very intentionally avoiding the fumes because I can almost guarantee they're not good.

2239
03:41:00,040 --> 03:41:07,040
I will save you the pain and only fill the first one because it takes a minute.

2240
03:41:07,040 --> 03:41:14,040
My assumptions as to why it's taking a hot fricking minute is a fewfold.

2241
03:41:14,040 --> 03:41:18,040
One, this is a chongest thick piece of acrylic.

2242
03:41:18,040 --> 03:41:24,040
Two, the tip I'm using is definitely not sized properly for this particular endeavor.

2243
03:41:24,040 --> 03:41:30,040
I'm mostly just interfacing with the cover, which is not quite as good at conducting heat

2244
03:41:30,040 --> 03:41:33,040
from the actual heating element.

2245
03:41:33,040 --> 03:41:37,040
And third, this is just not smart.

2246
03:41:37,040 --> 03:41:40,040
The acrylic seems to be pretty good at wicking heat.

2247
03:41:40,040 --> 03:41:46,040
So it's bouncing back, so that's fun. So I have to actually go well below flash.

2248
03:41:46,040 --> 03:41:49,040
That's actually pretty close to okay.

2249
03:41:49,040 --> 03:41:55,040
That's probably fine. Now I will not make you watch the rest of this.

2250
03:41:55,040 --> 03:42:00,040
It's mounted properly now. I have some nice, the heatset inserts mounted.

2251
03:42:00,040 --> 03:42:06,040
I have this mounted to here. I want to get something a little more sturdy on this side.

2252
03:42:06,040 --> 03:42:11,040
It's currently, it's a little floppy without this part on, but when this is on,

2253
03:42:11,040 --> 03:42:14,040
A plus is good enough for me.

2254
03:42:14,040 --> 03:42:19,040
That's probably going to be almost all I do for this build,

2255
03:42:19,040 --> 03:42:22,040
until the actual upgrade with Linus.

2256
03:42:22,040 --> 03:42:27,040
I'm going to take a whole bunch of stuff out, and then reassemble it with Linus,

2257
03:42:27,040 --> 03:42:30,040
which you will have probably already seen,

2258
03:42:30,040 --> 03:42:33,040
because Floatplane shenanigans.

2259
03:42:33,040 --> 03:42:38,040
But thanks for coming along on this hilarious ride with me.

2260
03:42:38,040 --> 03:42:45,040
I suspect there will probably be a little bit of post shots of the system fully going,

2261
03:42:45,040 --> 03:42:48,040
and heating steel up properly,

2262
03:42:48,040 --> 03:42:52,040
and then hitting some stuff with a hammer and deforming it.

2263
03:42:52,040 --> 03:42:56,040
A plus would do again. This was a very fun project.

2264
03:42:56,040 --> 03:43:02,040
Thanks Intel, and thanks Floatplane for watching and having a jolly good time.

2265
03:43:02,040 --> 03:43:07,040
Welcome to the gong show that is me having money and time to do things.

2266
03:43:07,040 --> 03:43:08,040
It's great.