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| rogerdw Guru  Joined: 22/10/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 881 |
Hi guys, I thought I should let everyone know about a new wesite dedicated to the Warpverter. It is a huge endeavour to find out what one is, let alone how to build one ... and in talking with Tony he wanted to have somewhere for people to get an overall picture and not have to repeat posts everywhere ... and have somewhere for the relevent files to be downloadable from. I'm no website builder but I found a platform and started stitching things together ... and Tony wrote the critical stuff. It's a work in progress but it's coming togther well. warpverter.com There's still lots to add but if anyone has any questions that haven't been addressed, please yell out. Thanks. Cheers, Roger |
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Gizmo Admin Group  Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5105 |
Wow. Haven't followed the inverter builds for a few years, but checked out the Warpverter site. It does a very good job of explaining how it works. Clever. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| rogerdw Guru Joined: 22/10/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 881 |
Thanks Glenn, I appreciate the kind words. Cheers, Roger |
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| analog8484 Senior Member  Joined: 11/11/2021 Location: United StatesPosts: 117 |
Very nice. Clearly a labor of love. |
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| rogerdw Guru Joined: 22/10/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 881 |
Thanks mate. It's something that's happened very quickly for some reason. Only started a week or so before Christmas. While I've learned an enormous amount from the threads on thebackshed, so much of it is hidden that the majority will never find it. And Tony is that humble that he never drew attention to himself or his work, so it took me a long time to realise the potential of a Warpverter. Having had mine going for 10 months now and appreciating how well it works, I thought it would be good to have all the necessary information to build one, all in the one spot ... to make it easier for anyone else who wants to go down the same track. Plus to honour Tony as well. And Tony had mentioned at some stage that he needed somewhere to place the board files and general information for anyone to download. I looked to see if warpverter.com was available and as it was, I grabbed it and started the process. I waste that much time on the computer and social media as it is ... so I figured I'd do something productive instead. Just need to stay away from all the doom and gloom!!! I'm certainly open to feedback, good or bad ... and any ideas for what else might improve the information there. I do have many hours of video from the building process, but I need to learn to edit it to make it watchable so I can add that to the site as well.. Cheers, Roger |
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Revlac Guru Joined: 31/12/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1088 |
Nice to see all the Information in one place, and explained well, for videos it would be good to keep them relatively short, perhaps under 5 minutes, or have the video time in a brief description. Don't know about a video editor off hand, but I do use HandBrake to lower the video size, very handy.  Cheers Aaron Off The Grid |
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| Davo99 Guru Joined: 03/06/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1581 |
You have done a top job on that site Roger. Definately going to be a real assett for people to build the inverter and make things so much easier. Well done mate! |
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| rogerdw Guru Joined: 22/10/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 881 |
Thanks for the kind words Aaron and for the advice with videos. I have had Camtasia for years, so will try and use that ... unless anyone knows of an easier free one to use. Camtasia has options to change output and file size too. Would be handy if I knew what size to make them.  And short videos make sense too, though some of the ones may need a bit more time to cover the subject. I like the time stamps idea, they should certainly help with any longer ones. And thanks to you too Dave for the kind words and your advice on the phone last week. I've been going through my videos and finding segments to use, and I've set up a you tube channel to post them to now. I particularly want to show how to wind a toroid because that seems to be the bottleneck for so many people. I know it was for me. Cheers, Roger |
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| analog8484 Senior Member Joined: 11/11/2021 Location: United StatesPosts: 117 |
That would be great, especially on how to build/acquire the recommended jigs/tools (e.g. winding shuttle/hoops, toroid holder/stand, etc.). Many of the past builds have custom components (e.g. toroid cores, enclosures, busbars, etc.) that looked wonderful. However, they also looked intimidating to the mechanical challenged (i.e. little to no wood/metal bending/cutting/welding skills/tools) like me Edited 2025-01-18 03:28 by analog8484 |
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| nocomply Newbie  Joined: 12/10/2024 Location: United StatesPosts: 1 |
Thanks Roger for spending the time to put the site together and Tony for all the knowledge he has shared. I've spent a lot of time reading on thebackshed.com and diysolarforum.com over the last year and appreciate Tonys explanation of things. I built 4 of his 555 timer based hot water circuits, last one running since last summer without a hitch(-_-} Anyway Thanks again Roger for the site and Tony for your excellent explanation of how things work. Mike |
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| rogerdw Guru Joined: 22/10/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 881 |
I appreciate the comment, thanks. A lot of the methods I used are simply copied from things I have seen here on thebackshed ... and others are a compilation of ideas from my research into winding toroids. I wasted hundreds of hours "researching" to find out how to do stuff ... but to be perfectly honest, some things I sweated over doing for weeks, months even ... I finally went out in the shed and had a go ... and it all fell into place super easily. I was talking myself out of starting because I had never done it before and couldn't find "instructions" on how to do it. The other revelation was that often after those hundreds of hours procrastinating and then finally deciding on "my brilliant plan" ... I'd go out and start implementing it ... and find out immediately it was unworkable. Mmmm ... Then I'd immediately try something else ... and pretty much every time, come up with an even better and easier way of completing my task. What I learned was that if I just got off my butt and off the flippin computer and went and had a go ... things can happen really quickly. I still need that reminder every day. I appreciate your comments about not having the mechanical skills and while I don't have that much experience ... it's amazing what you can do just having a go. My dad was a farmer and did many things by necessity and it must have rubbed off on me. Not that he really taught me the finer arts of skills ... but I probably picked up things by just being around when he did them. He did things like engineering and bolting two tractors together to gain extra power coz a new tractor was out of the budget ... he built and welded up a huge field bin for grain storage ... put together an off-grid power sytem for the farm before the grid was even available (back in the 50's). That was a freelite wind generator, a stationary engine with a 32v Dunlite generator plus old auto batteries etc etc. I think my most important takeaway from all of that was there's really no limit to what we can build or do if we really want it. Find out how and have a go ... and keep persevering. I reckon if I can put together some decent video of the winding process eg ... it will show that it's really not difficult at all. Time consuming maybe, but not complicated ... and lets not forget that the guys here have wound hundreds of toroids long before I worked out my methods. Cheers, Roger |
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| rogerdw Guru Joined: 22/10/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 881 |
Thank you and you're welcome. I'm really pleased it is helpful. And also pleased to hear your builds of Tony's hot water circuits have been successful too. I mentioned above that I spent hundreds of hours researching (before I built mine) and that's no exaggeration. I might be a bit slow at understanding things but am sure others have stumbling blocks too ... ... so I think that's why I came to the decision to try and put all the relevant info in one place ... try and organise it ... then that would reduce the learning curve for others. And the beauty of a website is that with feedback we can keep adding info as we find out where the road blocks are. I have often said to Tony that he needs to write a book and that he has a great teaching style ... but he wouldn't listen haha. Besides he wanted it to be open source and free, so a website is the way to go.So here I am again learning new skills and just faking my way through. Cheers, Roger |
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| -dex- Senior Member Joined: 11/01/2024 Location: PolandPosts: 101 |
This website is a great idea. In the past, when I was looking for a suitable project for me, I saw warpverter, but I rejected it due to lack of sufficient understanding, lack of detailed descriptions, and knowledge about it was scattered here and there. Warpeverter is still in my dreams. I put it on my long list of waiting "to do" projects. I wish you that the project will grow and gain new users. Home brewing inverters is a real thing, there is no one in my immediate circle who does it. My WG inverter build is also waiting to be published on my website... which is still under construction  |
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| rogerdw Guru Joined: 22/10/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 881 |
Thanks Dex, sounds like we had the same problem. The whole time I was researching ozinverters and kept seeing posts about Tony's stuff but never realised it was a complete working alternative. And Tony never pushed it, so took me a long time to realise the potential. Hopefully it will help others to realise it's a worthwhile project to pursue ... and also encourage others to do the same thing ... create a repository of info on projects they've created. So good luck with your website, it is great that you are working on one for the WG Inverter. It deserves airplay as well as it's an awesome setup and should become widespread too. Cheers, Roger |
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