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Joined: 22/02/2006
Location: AustraliaPosts: 1391
| Posted: 08:18am 06 Oct 2023 |
G'Day Guy's,
Well it has been awhile and that ol Kipoint inverter just keeps chugging along nicely with the loads I put on. I scored a bar fridge and used that as a dumpload and remembered I did have that BP charge controller that powered the array when we bought the farm back in '03. So I found it and connected it up and sure enough it worked
So that forklift battery 24 volt 735AH I've been using for the last 12 years has come back to life where the SG is is sitting on 1025 and that old reg is working nicely. Now it's a 22 amp regulator and I did see one morning after leaving the fridge on all week it went back into charge mode and when I touched it man it was hot. With that solar I scored for free that regulator is working flat out at 22 amps which is the stated current max on the reg.
Got all the bits I need to finish this ching inverter board so this weekend is planned to get it finished and my 180 amp mig is going to be the test as I did start to make a mig/tig trolley then the kipoint refused to power the mig so it sits unfinished.
I did buy most of the bits for the Mad board inverter and just need to grab some of the small caps to finish the component list. Now as far as just soldering thick wire direct to a pcb got me thinking so I have bent up some of those M4 pcb connectors and they fit to a tee on the PCB. So my plan is put them on the PCB and use some copper plate soldered to the cable then drilled to suit the M4 connectors. Then if needed they can be taken off where a solid soldered wire won't allow that to happen.
Anyway over the weekend pic's will happen as this ching build goes ahead and hopefully it will work.
Cheers Bryan