I thought this cant get better, then I saw the welding mask :D

Not dodgy. Handmade.

Just had to take the time to say how much I love your videos. It took a little time to get used to - but you are now firmly in my absolute favourite list. (which is a small precious list). A great mix of humor and knowledge delivered with a unique style.

@AdamV20

Жыл бұрын

Same

This is the kind of skill i'm looking for, not needing many specialized machines to make it work. Kudos from India

@fourkings7897

4 жыл бұрын

Mizoram ațangin ka lo reply ang che😁 a chanel hi a țha a nia.

Wow. Can't say I have seen anything that dodgy in a long time. Great to know it actually works. Show us the welding bead it makes.

Now that's recycling!

@BillAnt

5 жыл бұрын

The only thing that looks real is the welding rod.... but on closer look it's just like party sparklers.... tsk-tsk lol

@johnconrad5487

5 жыл бұрын

@@BillAnt ​ Why make disparaging remarks about what he has made. what is ur background in power electronics?

@victimovtalent6036

5 жыл бұрын

I think he's a creative man,his experts and skills could be helps many peoples who has not enough money to get their needs in particular things

@johnconrad5487

5 жыл бұрын

@@BillAnt i took it the wrong way. have a nice day. The guy knows his stuff and everything about his videos is great including his cat and his accent when speaking English!!!!! LOL..

@ramadavince6611

3 жыл бұрын

@@BillAnt look like you are jealous

I literally can't wait to see the final version of this welder circuit....I hope you do it very soon!

@DiodeGoneWild

5 жыл бұрын

I have a feeling that it may or may not come in the next 10 years :).

@matejgamingandotherstuff6484

3 ай бұрын

​@@DiodeGoneWild I can help you with the box. You will only need some sheet metal

I followed your instructions and now I've welded my hand to my face. Did I get a step wrong?

@danthemancasey

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like it is working properly!

@danthemancasey

5 жыл бұрын

@@appleejack Now you just need to learn the moon walk and you could be the next pop star!

@registrazioni898

5 жыл бұрын

that looks quite dodgy

@madrian_hello

5 жыл бұрын

Good for you, my penis stuck in the hole. Wrong instructions.

@BillAnt

5 жыл бұрын

That's easily fixable, just solder in a 1mF smoothing-cap taken from some computer power supply.... another smoothing cap from some computer power supply.... another smoothing cap from some computer power supply.... and another smoothing cap from some computer power supply.... ha-ha-ha

Thank You Man. I am so grateful that people like you are out there serving knowledge and granting their wealth mercifully. Keep going please.

Wow, big respect for that engineering!

one has to appreciate what an honest down to earth person you are. Much respect, from a fellow electronic engineer..😀

For some very strange unexplainable reason, you can listen to this guy all day. like a damn twilight zone of hypnotic sound. DiodeGoneWild my foot. this guy is crazy smart gone berzerk. knows his stuff....

When you said there’s no motivation to finish it when it works and a temporary solution turns permanent… Story of my life. Happens with 99% of my projects lol

Please do a video on the IGBT gate transformer and related circuit! Another awesome video thank you!

@BillAnt

5 жыл бұрын

A quick primer for those who aren't familiar with IGBT devices. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulated-gate_bipolar_transistor

Man oh man! Nothing better than a temporary solution that turns permanent. 😁👍 I wish I could find a way to easily ship things to you from the usa. There have been dozens of times over the past few years where I wanted to ship you something after one of your videos. A buddy of mine runs a local industrial scrap yard and he gets welders and stuff by the truck load. You wouldn't believe the government entities and big companies who just scrap everything after one big job is finished because it's cheaper to write it off on their taxes. Literally stuff that is less than a year old. It makes more financial sense for them to crush it all at the scrapyard then to try and sell it or whatever. They Don't really allow the public to come in and buy stuff but I go by there a few days a week and he lets me have whatever for about $0.08 per pound no matter what it is. I used to be thousands of pounds of stuff every month sometimes thousands of pounds per week. And it went on like that for the first 2 or 3 years. But it's been 6-7 years now... And you just can't do that constantly you just can't keep up with that pace. It's more than a full-time job and then you end up realizing you don't get to work on projects because it's a full-time job keeping up with all of that stuff He doesn't keep anything anymore he just crushes at all unless I want it. a lot of the government stuff it comes in has to be crushed because it's a mandatory things since it was bought with taxpayer money. But I still get whatever I want and a lot of times donate it to schools and stuff like that when I find someone looking for something, or really need it, or I have the time. But it's a full-time job and I just don't have the time. You can only use so many things. And you can only have so many storage buildings. Then....If you can't find something when you need it or easily get to it.....then you might as well not have it at all.

This is the best video so far... Please more videos like this about things you have made.. Long time no cat 🐈 😢😭😭

Nothing new to me, since I've went over your site left and right MANY times :) Just nice to see the old beast in action. I have to calm down a bit, 'cause I tend to get paranoid when I build some high frequency high power circuits, you literally cobbled it together and it works juuuust fine :D

I like your messy design,your brain is full on expert and knowledge

It is now official, Diode Gone Wild is the finest electronic engineer on KZread...Yes, smarter than him too.

OMG, this has to be the most impressive project and the best video I have seen on KZread. Even without the cat.

ok... ok... your suppressor broken and then you build a welder, and a welding mask to fix it! Big respect! Thanks DiodeGoneWild for very detail explaination!

It seems like you make prototype things I enjoy watching your channel

That’s awesome Dan!, love it, looks like something out of the apocalypse.

I hope that one day you will find the motivation to put it in a nice box and to compleat it.🙂 And also a nice vid.

LoL, this one is your best video. You are now in my personal hall of fame.

0:25 Excellent schematic! Your work is brilliant!

DiodeGoneWild , Waiting for next steps, Thanks For Your Efforts

Cool ... now I am going for that schematic; understand and try one myself ... great video .. cheers :)

Looks amazing, thank you for your content.

welding mask is the best. :-)

@gregsmith2262

5 жыл бұрын

It looks quite dodgy and it is........LOL.....It looks sick!

@gregsmith2262

5 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@BillAnt

5 жыл бұрын

Mark made out of a kitty litter box with a piece of glass darkened by kitty poop. tsk-tsk

Skills and spirit, well done, sir!

you really know your stuff. really impressive. keep up the good work.

MacGyver: How are we going to create a rocket launcher for this minivan without anything to weld it? DGW: Hold my beer...

@L30NBL4NK

4 жыл бұрын

Hold my beeeeeeeeer*

@L30NBL4NK

4 жыл бұрын

Hold my fire extinguisher.

@LMB222

4 жыл бұрын

MacGyversky. We had to be like that in Eastern Bloc.

@_windows_software_wizard_2136

2 жыл бұрын

bloody helll, hold my beerra!

Thank goodness I found your channel۔ love you

It would be great if you show all your old stuff, like the tesla transformers. Your website is amazing.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! You have built some amazing stuff on your website, please share more of those projects! :D

Nice construction haha! Hope sometime in the future you get to fit it inside a proper metal container.

wait,what?! Danyk? you must be,I'm not mistaking you. I saw the actual schematic,and post on your website! thank you very much!

Diode, I was recently transiting through Czech Rep. and I swear, half of the cars on Your roads are Škodas 😂😂

@BillAnt

5 жыл бұрын

Yes because they're all repaired by DiodeGoneWild's welder. tsk-tsk

@AKAtheA

5 жыл бұрын

Only national brand that still makes cars in the republic (despite being owned by VW)...The Octavia is fairly popular around EU as well.

@matejgamingandotherstuff6484

3 ай бұрын

​@@AKAtheAThe older Škoda cars (older than mk3 Octavia) are nearly unkillable

awesome! i read the article number of times years ago - it helped me to understand magic inside these electric machines. i can also recommend the switching PSUs topologies articles, good stuff there...(so far czech only)

Wow I'm making a digital bench power supply out of scrap currently! It's really cool to see a welding power supply made from scrap!

I would imagine even with your deep understanding in electronics, it would have been created in blocks. Making each block perform as expected, then matching it to the next block. It's still very impressive, even ten years later :-D Hope you fixed the exhaust, exhausting work :) The sub 17v supply looks like it has a "Top" chip or similar, it's amazing how minimal the circuit can become :-). I have been to your site quite a few times, you did build a power supply that was massive, or perhaps it was a welder, my memory is bad. Some of the small supplys i have saved the diagrams, just for personal use only. The section on p.c switchmode diagrams is very handy for reference.

Love you videos, been watching a lot of them and liking a lot of them lately. I believe this the first one I am commenting on. But I wish to see you redo this and on a nicer PCB layout (maybe professionally printed). Would really like to see this in that housing you drawn 😂

You are awesome! How do you do the varnish coated wire for your transformers? I've managed to salvage some wire for rewinding once but most of the wire I've come across is not good enough for rewinding. The varnish tends to be brittle and crack after removing it. To answer everyones first question, yes, I very carefully remove the wire. I'm usually counting windings as it is and will carefully unwind and rewind at the same time or will wind it onto a fresh bobbin. The wire usually looks fine as soon as I remove it, but after letting it sit for a few days I can see small cracks showing tarnish from bare copper. Are you sourcing new copper wire, coating your own, or are there other sources of coated wire I should be looking for? -Jake

@DiodeGoneWild

5 жыл бұрын

You'd have to ba crazy to coat the wire youself ;). I use an old coated wire from old devices. Deflection coils of old CRT televisions are a good source of a wire. Also sme transformers (not in resin). Some fluorescent ballasts. Some motors (for example microwave oven fans) have a nice coated wire, the winding is not in resin. Also some electromagnets and relay coils are a good source of wire. Also water pump motors from washing machines have a nice winding that you can easily unwind. Also the degaussing coils of CRT monitors or TVs (the big rectangle around the CRT, in a sticky tape).

Can you please test ZB2L3 battery capacity tester?

Surprisingly, he seems to be still alive to this day!

Not just impressed with your delivery, but empowered that it is possible. So.... All things are possible Great DGW.

Very nice project!! Do you think IGBTs of this kind HGTG30N60A4 can operate at around 80 kHz so as to use a smaller transformer?

You are very talented!

Nice vid bro!

awesome piece of equipment :D

Man, you have gone crazy big time 😂😁 You EVEN BUILT A SWITCHING auxiliary ps haha.. I am sure that out of 1000 people, 999 would have just dropped in a low dropout linear regulator IC but not you 👍👍😊 ps: pls show the bead you have done on the exhaust pipe haha

@beedslolkuntus2070

5 жыл бұрын

Vona Laszlo :-)

@DiodeGoneWild

5 жыл бұрын

I wanted to make it ever so modern back then, so I used a switching auxiliary power supply. It's not a bead, it's a splash :).

Bloody Hell. Best wishes from Northern Ireland.

Do you have any upgrade version of this machine, such as using lm358 to adjust the output current or sth...? It will be very nice to see it!

Please make a video how to build a simple smps inverter. You're absolutely expert in it.

Now this is the kind of construction I use in my electronics projects! But like I always think ... if it works, that's good enough.

Do you design power supplies for a living?

@beedslolkuntus2070

5 жыл бұрын

douro20 nah, he has his personal job as far as I know....

what is the DVM readings i saw in the pictures while you are welding? one says short arc and shows 016 and the other says long arc and shows 036. what are those numbers? I am trying to understand so maybe I can build one of these. Thanks

Could you explain how the shaping circuit that drives the IGBT works ?

Excellent video 👍

Awesome creation.

Very cool. Great job.

maybe make some video to explain more in detail how it works (gate driving circuitry, the transformers, the type of ferrite, ecc), it would be interesting!

@DiodeGoneWild

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe one day :). But I think that the schematic and the description on my website explains it ...

@dama4357

5 жыл бұрын

@@DiodeGoneWild yep you're right, but I don't understand why you've to used that gate circuitry instead of driving the mosfet directly from the insulation transformer

You have real sick frankenstein engineering skill. Waching you touching contacts with bare hand also makes me nervous though I'm sure you're aware with the dangers but it just doesn't seems as safe..

@eurobum2012

5 жыл бұрын

The device was off when he was explaining it. Welding output is only a few volts so it's safe to touch (Same as touching a 9v battery)

@trcostan

5 жыл бұрын

There was a time when people were responsible for their own actions! Not today where the lawyers and insurance companies are slowly making most equipment unserviceable due to crazy safety requirements. Some of the old tube radios I work on have exposed mains on the back some even have a scary accessory plug with B+ 300-600 volts dc typically in a plug that has zero recess on the terminals! If you don’t know what your doing don’t do it, if you are learning ask someone that knows read, read some more and be prepared to get a shock or two that’s just how life goes when working on this stuff. But you must know the difference between something that will just make you mad and hurt vs something that one mistake will kill you instantly like the smoothing caps in a high powered transmitter or high voltage power lines.

@mrkitty777

5 жыл бұрын

There is also a magic kitty inside, like a safety discharge resistor. 🐱

@BillAnt

5 жыл бұрын

Right, and there's no need for pliers to hold the welding rods... bare hands will do, but just one time though. tsk tsk (jk!)

@czarPROstock

5 жыл бұрын

in soviet communism this is a DIY kit welding machine :)

Neat. I have seen many of your previous projects on your other channel, where you speak Czech. Many of them are quite interesting, I think.

That's an awesome welder! Any chance we could see you lay down a bead with it on some scrap steel?

Ah man I love this channel, the welding mask really got me laughing "frrrrom shoesssss". Hey if it works it's fine! Keep up the content :)

Great design, almost too great for doing just a welder of that! ;-)

Fabulous! I want to see your car from every angle possible with proper zoom ins and outs :)

Another fascinating video. Thanks!

Not dodgy, just diy! And actually it's very nicely built! But how did you dimension the current sensing, the components and the transformer?

Can you explain how a pure sine wave inverter works? Thanks

where did you get large hf transformer

Bravo for the build. You really know where electrons like to flow. What is the max power of your diabolic welding device?

To vyzerá ako výborná zváračka. Teda až na to nepraktické vymieňanie zváracej elektródy :)

Is necessary to rectify the output voltage?

Why the coil (stabilizer) is always to the negative, side of the output? Can we put it to the positive side?

that is crazy PCB ... nice work !!!

@DiodeGoneWild

5 жыл бұрын

THT components soldered as they were SMD, and the board is made using dremmel :). I should have patented this! Actually, it's made using a homemade "dremmel" made of a motor from an old VHS player.

That's pretty awesome.

inspired from your welding inverter article i made my own , had a few failures then success and now i have increased the current to 160 amps using powerful IGBTs IGW75N60T and 150EBU02 DIODE by reducing the value of current sense resistor and increasing the turns on current sense trasnformer. i wound my own trasnformer too using copper foil but i still dont understand how the potentiometer adjusts the current, does it change the 1V threshold of the current sense input (pin 3 of uc3844) to change current. ?

@nemurangonitakalani3088

5 жыл бұрын

Bro I need your help, I want to modify this welding power supply into a 4kw - 5kw power supply for a power amplifier. My email : gqom.master@gmail.com

Can you finish this gorgoeus device in a video please? Very nice and dodgy of course!

Wouldn't the output be kind of unipolar without the rectifier, since the transformer is only driven one way and freewheeling the other

Hi very nice power switching for this inverter, Do you know or measured how many amps take in the input and this circuit works with 120v or 220v? thanks for share.

@DiodeGoneWild

5 жыл бұрын

This one is for 220-240V 50-60Hz mains. It may draw about 10A at most from the mains. The maximum output current is 100A.

Finally ... I've found your website & hope you explain It ;)

@TheJavaSync

5 жыл бұрын

& of course You're PCB's are very dutcyyy

@TheJavaSync

5 жыл бұрын

& where the final drawing of it, Sir - there are many components adding in your explaining from the blog :)

Thanks a lot. Is there a reason why the voltage isn't adjustable? You converted this welder into a power supply with adjustable current and voltage, but you use 3845 insted of the 3844 can I use the later one as I don't have the 3845?

You made a good job of that im impressed how much does it draw from the mains? Ive seen someone welding straight from mains no rectifier or current control yours is far superior

@AKAtheA

5 жыл бұрын

that might be possible in the US, where you can have silly things like 400A service, but here in EU, where the grid is mostly 230V (or 400V between phases), you'd have problems sourcing more then 32A out of commonly available 3-phase sockets.

I've gotta hand it to you.... perseverance to sit and wind all the coils. You're proud of them I can tell, and so you should be. I was surprised to see an iron lamination transformer in the output. At 40khz switching, that would be inefficient due to eddy current and hysteresis losses. And it's very heavy. The choke at 40khz would be a similar problem with the bh curve characteristics of iron. The output transformer then looks more like something designed for 100hz, 1khz, 10khz maybe. Please cover the capacitor bank. The charge energy in there is significant and deadly. :) gm2020 . Edited: I saw on ur site, it's not iron laminated output transformer. The two big ferrite cores are impressive. :) Good answer given as to why DC rectification is used with inverter welders - yes the inductive reactance in leads at high frequencies! All around real nice, but a bit on the dangerous side :P

Hello someone PLEASE help me. I don't have that type of old gate driver transformer . So can I wind wire on a circle toroidal core

Thank you very much for sharing this project. Would please share the complete schematic for this project, please again?

Nice job

Hi ...! Always igbts get short sircuit. Its only works well without load.. i tried 40n60 and irg4pc50f. Does internal diodes of igbts affects malfunction...

this is a great project. thanks for sharing. why did you make it with DC output instead of AC? you already had 40 KHz. does that not work with welding? what is the Dc output voltage? is it around 9V like u said?

@DiodeGoneWild

5 жыл бұрын

High frequency voltage isn't good for welding. At 40kHz and such a high current, just the inductance of the welding cables would be a big problem. And of course, most electrodes require DC.

@DiodeGoneWild

5 жыл бұрын

Did I say anything about 9V? I think that the arc voltage may be like 12-15V at a very short arc or about 30-35V at a very long arc. Mostly like 20-25V.

@johnconrad5487

5 жыл бұрын

@@DiodeGoneWild yeah actually i think i heard u saying something like 9 V. I looked at your weblink for this and saw that long arc is 3.6V and short arc is 1.2V based upon ur DVM. However i dont know how much current was passing at the time. so u say that short arc is 12-15V and average is about 25V... thanks. i often wondered about this.

@johnconrad5487

5 жыл бұрын

@@DiodeGoneWild Ok Thanks. I also did not know that most welding required DC. and yes i did not think of it, 40KHz on the long welding cables will be a problem. thanks for pointing this out

Hello my friend, can you help me a little. I said I tried a lot in making this device but it does not work well. There is something wrong with the circuit. I hope I can understand from you. Have you made any change to the basic scheme ??? Because the gate transistor heats up when it turns on the gate feed transformer..what should the voltage be on the gate transistor IRG4PF50W? Thanks

Please show us the welder in action with your exhaust!

Coolest thing ever mate ! As I have seen many inverters as yours in the internet this led me to a question. Why it seems that every inverter has a primary current regulation ? Because for accuracy and tight regulation wouldn´t it be better to measure at the secondary side of the transformer ? Yeah I know that there is DC on the far right but I mean directly at the output of the secondary where still AC exist so you can use the current transformer there too.

I want to modify this power supply into a 4kw - 5kw power supply for a power amplifier, my idea is to turn the power stage into a full bridge. Can anyone advice me if it's the right thing or not

Dobrý den, proč jste nedal tranzistor npn k napájení 2 tlp 250 současně místo tranzistoru mosfet, aby se mohly zapnout tranzistory igpt

Nice build! I made one of those with only a transformer. I wound 750 turns of primary and 20 turns of very thick wire as the secondary. The only downside is that the secondary melts after long usage.

@DiodeGoneWild

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks :). This transformer ratio, at 230V mains, would only give you about 6V. Is it a spot welder than? :)

@erenozkan6291

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I use it to connect batteries.

Takhle má vypadat baslt :) Super video. Nenapadlo by mě, že invertor je takhle jednoduchý.

@AKAtheA

5 жыл бұрын

Základ (což tohle je opravdu na kost :D) opravdu je, ale vyjma toho nejhoršího čínskýho šrotu má běžnej svářecí invertor pár serepetiček navíc, který pomáhaj startovat a držet oblouk + pár ochran aby se to neroztavilo ;-)

@karelventil2647

5 жыл бұрын

Kámoš měl kdysi cukání si ho také vyrobit, když to stálo majlant. Nenašel ale pro to čas a pak spadly ceny :)

@AKAtheA

5 жыл бұрын

@@karelventil2647 vyrábět mělo smysl tak nejdřív před 10 lety. Dneska i čong dokáže vyrobit něco, co nevybouchne při 1. zapnutí a zvládne svařovat dýl jak 2 minuty, chce to jen pozorně zkontrolovat recenze před nakupovánim ;-) Co stále i dneska má smysl stavět, je indukční ohřev pro dílnu, jednotky kW výkon.

I would like to see you TRYING to weld a rusty tissue-thin exhaust pipe with any 'stick' welder. I remember the time my uncle bought a stick welder, the type that runs off a car battery. By the time he'd finished welding his old banger car, it had more holes in it than before he started!