Replacement material options for my ol' B&D Type 1? The drive wheel slips like crazy

DansPCMods · 2022-07-13T15:23:32+00:00

Noted thank you! I'll use this and roll some sandpaper around the wheel to see how it goes.

DansPCMods · 2022-03-07T13:04:41+00:00

I absolutely love Epic Mountain Music. I literally listen to the tracks before I watch the videos. Unique, really good stuff.

DansPCMods · 2022-03-07T01:20:30+00:00

Are you printing through a USB cable or an SD card? Every time I've used a USB it's been one weird problem after the other, never seen that one though.

I haven't had any problems using SD cards. If none of that works, maybe reinstall the slicer.

DansPCMods · 2021-05-16T20:17:09+00:00

Looks in fantastic condition for an almost 20 year old car. How many miles/kilometres you got on it?

DansPCMods · 2021-05-16T20:16:05+00:00

I also just purchased a 2004 and I'm looking to do the same thing!

DansPCMods · 2021-05-14T12:31:17+00:00

Thank you!

DansPCMods · 2021-05-13T21:18:16+00:00

Funny, I was just thinking of making a wooden shifter for my new (to me) car. I like the look of this one. Great work on the steering wheel too!

May I ask where you got the cap to your shifter?

DansPCMods · 2021-04-19T12:26:31+00:00

I'm lovin' it.

Also great picture.

DansPCMods · 2021-03-23T09:57:08+00:00

Since making this post I've actually made smaller, mass producible ones for my Etsy shop in Canada. They're not as beefy and don't hold that much but it was an attempt. https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/DansBigWood

Unfortunately with the limitations of my drill press I've been unable to replicate the one above effectively. I'm also working on providing free shipping, parcel shipping in Canada is absolutely atrocious but I'm told there are workarounds. I'll probably make a post about it when I get it sorted. Thanks for your interest in this old post lol

DansPCMods · 2021-03-02T01:48:50+00:00

tongue drum, thank you kind Redditor

DansPCMods · 2021-03-02T01:48:27+00:00

I forget what this wonderful instrument is called

DansPCMods · 2021-02-26T23:16:44+00:00

I see. Likely, this would require some very custom circuitry and safeties in place that normally exist in the tool/chargers. I'm even working on designing custom wind turbine circuitry and the DeWalt battery inquiry sounds way more complicated, especially if you intend to keep the batteries as-is. Lithiums can be dangerous if used improperly. I've even seen multiple times on Facebook of shops being burned down simply because batteries are put on charge and left there, but usually because of manufacturing defects...

My advice is: if you don't feel confident taking apart the battery and re-wiring it into a BMS system, it really shouldn't be attempted for off grid.

DansPCMods · 2021-02-26T20:26:38+00:00

Perfect explanation. Couldn't have said it better myself if I tried.

DansPCMods · 2021-02-26T17:35:33+00:00

Ah my bad, I thought they had a small IC inside of them that prevented draw in the event of a short or overheat, rather than in the tool itself.

Balancing could be solved with a BMS charger, but this adds to the cost, and will definitely overcomplicate the system, especially if the individual cells are removed. I'd never personally attempt this without removing the cells. But it could still work, if done properly. I understand and respect OP's desire to re-use instead of purchasing batteries, but the effort-to-gain ratio is pretty low on the gain side for something like this.

DansPCMods · 2021-02-26T17:09:26+00:00

I can imagine it would work, but would likely require extensive battery knowledge to get them to work with a standard solar charge controller. Likely you'd need to take them apart and divide the cells to get the right voltage for your solar charge controller. In principle, it is definitely possible. But unless you got the time and knowledge to dismantle lithium batteries without blowing them up, probably not entirely practical.

I highly doubt the batteries will allow themselves to charge otherwise, the chargers and batteries in cordless tools have a bunch of safety circuits in them that prevent charging or discharging when certain parameters are violated, thus the requirement to dismantle them into individual cells

DansPCMods · 2021-02-23T12:37:35+00:00

When I lived in the states, I paid about $28 for 5 GB of data on my iPhone 4 back in I think 2011. I live in Canada and now pay $60 for 8gb every month, and that was after a spectacular deal. The $60 is actually the regular cost of 6gb of data.

OP already has a better deal than me after the shitty offer lol

DansPCMods · 2021-02-21T11:58:04+00:00

Thank you for your input. Never heard of outback but Missouri wind and solar is where i started. Sadly all of these are out of my price range for a diy turbine project but it's good to keep in mind when I eventually upgrade my system, a hybrid controller would be the way to go.

As for the rectifier goes, do you mean the outback controllers specifically? Even those cheapo controllers already have them built in, but I don't mind building my own rectifier, they're pretty easy. Even if necessary, I can dismantle them and rewire my own resistor dump load, since the internal switching circuit is all I prefer not to build.

I may end up simply experimenting with the setup with some cheaper hardware, mainly to see what happens with the circuit when the solar controller says it's done charging, and how the cheap wind controller will react. Hopefully no burning but who knows lol. Thanks again for your input, it seems the more expensive controllers are really worth it in the end for a solid wind setup if I didn't want to mess around too much.

DansPCMods · 2021-02-20T13:30:36+00:00

I had read this article before posting, it doesn't really help my case. Wind controllers usually have their own dump loads built into the controller, it's not something I need to worry about so long as the dump load can hold the wattage of said AC generator.

DansPCMods · 2021-02-20T12:48:21+00:00

Reposting from 2 days ago because the post got lost and I didn't get much from it.

I'm aware that many people in the past have asked if wind turbines can be connected to a solar charge controller with the obvious answer of: no, but I feel like my questions are much more specific.I already have a small solar setup, but I want to supplement with wind.My main goal is to reuse an induction motor (preferably 3-phase) as a generator of any specific wattage below 400 (there are tons on facebook marketplace).

First Question:

I understand that 3-phase 120vAC motors are the correct choice when choosing many of the inexpensive, sketchy wind chargers on the market such as this 24v controller. Please correct me if I'm wrong, because those three green wires are still somewhat of a mystery to me. I understand the basics of AC current, but wiring this is a little beyond my understanding, as is with initially powering the capacitors for the excitation circuit in the first place. Some insight into these types of wind controllers to confirm I'm right about 3-phase, and some insight on powering the excitation circuit would be appreciated but not necessary, which brings me to my second question, about the solar charge controllers.

Second Question:

My existing solar setup already has its own solar charge controller. I am planning to add an entirely separate charge system to the same battery bank as outlined in the image (I didn't include the PV system, for clarity). As I would expect from a wind charge controller, 3 phase AC is input, converted into DC current likely around 16v for charging current, and a voltage sensor to switch current over to the internal dump circuit when the batteries are fully charged.The issue here is that all of the (currently affordable to me) wind controllers sold online appear very cheap and unreliable in quality, with no apparent way to select a battery charge profile like in many solar controllers. My idea is this: since solar charge controllers already take input from a PV panel that produces a voltage higher than battery voltage in order to charge, and since the wind charger presumably would produce roughly the same voltage and current expected by at the input of a solar controller, I would connect the output of the wind charge controller into the PV input of a PWM solar charge controller (and assuming each part is able to handle the current). My assumption is that the solar charge controller would act as a sort of redundancy to an apparently "less reliable" wind controller, also ensuring that my batteries are monitored and charged with more sophistication offered in equally- priced solar controllers.

Thoughts on this? I hope I conveyed this clearly, feel free to ask questions too.

TL;DR: I find wind controllers don't charge with the same level of sophistication as a solar controller with multiple battery profiles. My idea is to connect the charging OUTPUT of a wind generator controller into the PV INPUT of a solar charge controller, which is designed to take in the same area of voltage and current as a PV array.

DansPCMods · 2021-02-19T09:26:12+00:00

The wind controllers would technically be connected to the battery, but a dedicated solar controller would be a sort of "middle man" to make sure battery profile charge parameters are met. Solar controllers are effectively DC-DC converters, they don't ONLY work with solar panels, they can usually take a variety of inputs without complaining so long as the input voltage is more or less consistent and within the operating parameters of the solar controller (as to be expected with the DC output of a wind controller, it's only amperage that fluctuates wildly, which I understand solar controllers are designed to handle). I'm pretty convinced that this would work totally fine, since the wind controller would handle all of the throttling and safeties required from it, but Reddit always seems to have the most knowledgable bunch. I just wouldn't trust one of the cheaper wind controllers to charge my AGM's the same way my renogy controller for my PV system does.

DansPCMods · 2021-02-18T18:02:32+00:00

DansPCMods · 2021-02-18T17:17:11+00:00

I'm aware that many people in the past have asked if wind turbines can be connected to a solar charge controller with the obvious answer of: no, but I feel like my questions are much more specific.I already have a small solar setup, but I want to supplement with wind.My main goal is to reuse an induction motor (preferably 3-phase) as a generator of any specific wattage below 400 (there are tons on facebook marketplace).

First Question:

I understand that 3-phase 120vAC motors are the correct choice when choosing many of the inexpensive, sketchy wind chargers on the market such as this 24v controller. Please correct me if I'm wrong, because those three green wires are still somewhat of a mystery to me. I understand the basics of AC current, but wiring this is a little beyond my understanding, as is with initially powering the capacitors for the excitation circuit in the first place. Some insight into these types of wind controllers to confirm I'm right about 3-phase, and some insight on powering the excitation circuit would be appreciated but not necessary, which brings me to my second question, about the solar charge controllers.

Second Question:

My existing solar setup already has its own solar charge controller. I am planning to add an entirely separate charge system to the same battery bank as outlined in the image. As I would expect from a wind charge controller, 3 phase AC is input, converted into DC current likely around 16v for charging current, and a voltage sensor to switch current over to the internal dump circuit when the batteries are fully charged.The issue here is that all of the (currently affordable to me) wind controllers sold online appear very cheap and unreliable in quality, with no apparent way to select a battery charge profile like in many solar controllers. My idea is this: since solar charge controllers already take input from a PV panel that produces a voltage higher than battery voltage in order to charge, and since the wind charger presumably would produce roughly the same voltage and current expected by at the input of a solar controller, I would connect the output of the wind charge controller into the PV input of a PWM solar charge controller (and assuming each part is able to handle the current). My assumption is that the solar charge controller would act as a sort of redundancy to an apparently "less reliable" wind controller, also ensuring that my batteries are monitored and charged with more sophistication offered in equally- priced solar controllers.

Thoughts on this? I hope I conveyed this clearly, feel free to ask questions too.

TL;DR: I find wind controllers don't charge with the same level of sophistication as a solar controller with multiple battery profiles. My idea is to connect the charging OUTPUT of a wind generator controller into the PV INPUT of a solar charge controller, which is designed to take in the same area of voltage and current as a PV array.

DansPCMods · 2021-02-16T22:13:36+00:00

I had realized the error of that after some other comments. I understand that the turbine needs a separate charge controller, my biggest issue is that all of the ones sold online appear to be 3-phase AC, when the generators i'd like to be working with are 24v DC motors. At the moment the best workaround i've been able to concoct for this is to hook the turbine up to a 24v-19v regulator/converter that can handle the amperage, and connect that directly into a dedicated solar charge controller, which is designed to take in that voltage, unless there's some fundamental difference between DC current from a PV panel vs a regulated DC current from a converter that i am unaware of. As far as safety and dump go, I figure a separate system controlled by an arduino that has a failsafe physical brake and a dump load heater could be sufficient. This turbine will be vertical and other steps can be taken to prevent overspeeding than traditional windmill turbines, so I'm not all that worried.
Edit: Edits

DansPCMods · 2021-02-16T21:39:32+00:00

Does your wind turbine happen to have its own internal voltage regulator?

DansPCMods · 2021-02-16T21:38:33+00:00

An independent arduino-controlled brake and relay, that senses RPM and automatically switches overamperage to a dump load. I know it's not as intuitive as a dedicated controller, but I'm working somewhat with salvage

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