Nice harvest! You better melt that copper in beautifull ingots 😍

@badideametals

7 ай бұрын

I wish I had more time on the recording day for the melt. I had so much work to get done moving stuff around that I just went with the tear down. I will do a quick follow up video for this with the ingots...

The big block is a "contactor" - aka. a Big Boy Relay. The little blocks look like IGBT's, but they're thyristor modules - aka. solid-state switch. And the plate on them is copper. The contactor is worth $$$$ to right person, but being an out-of-production part, I doubt there are many takers. The switches were ~300$ new, but they're just as old as the rest of the stuff... likely worth more for the copper. (And at 8lbs, that "aluminum" block isn't aluminum. Might be aluminum fins.)

@badideametals

7 ай бұрын

All good information. Thank you. I will have to see what that heat sink is if it is not aluminum.

Everyone of those red spacers I’ve come across were fiberglass try not to break them

@badideametals

7 ай бұрын

That makes sense. That are really useful as insulators.