What have you made lately?

[byke]

Made a little battery generator kit with a 35ah battery, 300w pure sine wave inverter, 10a charge controller and a 175w solar panel. Still need to add a 5w led in the top lid.

Second pic gives an idea of what size panel you need to actually charge things and not just trickle it for a week before it finally finishes, because if it drains at night, it needs to fully charge in under 6hrs during the day.

 

[mikev]

Made a cutting board and a sunglasses rack.

That board is badass.

 

[auntiebling]

Made a little battery generator kit with a 35ah battery, 300w pure sine wave inverter, 10a charge controller and a 175w solar panel. Still need to add a 5w led in the top lid.

Second pic gives an idea of what size panel you need to actually charge things and not just trickle it for a week before it finally finishes, because if it drains at night, it needs to fully charge in under 6hrs during the day.

post your parts list or i'm going to ban you from barf! not really? no, not really

 

[mikev]

post your parts list or i'm going to ban you from barf! not really? no, not really

1. solar panel
2. electrical stuff
3. battery

 

[byke]

I did make a little BoM to keep track of cost, because I may see if I can add a little margin and sell some on CL, but didn't enter the specifics. Holler if you need anything specific..

Small battery box:
1 panel 175w - 43 (ebay)
10a cheapy charge controller - 25 (amazon)
1ea 35ah battery - 65 (amazon)
1ea 300w pure sine wave inverter - 55 (amazon)
toolbox - 9 (harbor freight)
2 pair xt60 connectors - $2 (amazon)
2ft red & black 12 gauge wire - $2 (amazon)
6ft red & black 14 gauge wire - $6 (amazon)
4 ring terminals - $1 (amazon)
6ft 3/8" split wire loom - $3 (amazon)
flush mount solar connection - $7 (amazon)
total - 218

Also, there's a little top lid that would work perfectly for mounting one or two 5w led strips, which I was planning to use eBay item no 251643286547. Normally I plugin a lamp with a 9w led bulb from Home Depot, but nobody has tabletop lamps anymore, so I figure it'd be nice to build something into it. Just flip up the lid and turn on the light and it's enough to get through the evening.

 

[Mike95060]

^ Bad ass, what can you run off it? Looks like the perfect thing to have mounted to a vehicle rack. Unplug the box ant tote it wherever to power....?

 

[byke]

300w isn't much. I think of this as the bare minimum for an outage; keep a light going in the house overnight and charge phones, but also went with the pure sine wave inverter to cover any sensitive electronics like a laptop, portable DVD player, stuff like that. All small stuff. Then I tried to size the panel to actually recharge it during the day. What we picture in our mind regarding the size of a solar panel is always waaaaay off from what's actually needed.

Yeah it'd be killer for a vehicle setup.

 

[auntiebling]

I did make a little BoM to keep track of cost, because I may see if I can add a little margin and sell some on CL, but didn't enter the specifics. Holler if you need anything specific..

Small battery box:
1 panel 175w - 43 (ebay)
10a cheapy charge controller - 25 (amazon)
1ea 35ah battery - 65 (amazon)
1ea 300w pure sine wave inverter - 55 (amazon)
toolbox - 9 (harbor freight)
2 pair xt60 connectors - $2 (amazon)
2ft red & black 12 gauge wire - $2 (amazon)
6ft red & black 14 gauge wire - $6 (amazon)
4 ring terminals - $1 (amazon)
6ft 3/8" split wire loom - $3 (amazon)
flush mount solar connection - $7 (amazon)
total - 218

Also, there's a little top lid that would work perfectly for mounting one or two 5w led strips, which I was planning to use eBay item no 251643286547. Normally I plugin a lamp with a 9w led bulb from Home Depot, but nobody has tabletop lamps anymore, so I figure it'd be nice to build something into it. Just flip up the lid and turn on the light and it's enough to get through the evening.

Sweet
For the battery I assume it is 12v, if so harbor freight has one for their electric start generators that is cheaper. I used one for my dirtbag bike, suspiciously similar size to a generic motorsports battery. AGM and all

 

[byke]

Word, 12v made by Weize. I think the HF 35ah battery is $70? Though with the 20% coupon, more gooder. I'm definitely trying to trim as much fat on this thing as possible.

 

[Sharxfan]

I don't know how you feel about it but have you checked AliExpress for some of the electronics?

 

[byke]

I haven't, but that's a good idea and all this stuff is from China anyway. Maybe check Banggood as well. Should at least save a few bucks on sales tax if nothing else.

 

[auntiebling]

Definitely use the coupon but also ignore me on this issue.

https://www.harborfreight.com/12v-10-ah-sealed-lead-acid-battery-62586.html

10 Ah ain't that handy for this application

 

[byke]

Yeah solar/battery stuff is in a great place right now, but it still kinda sucks. People need something to run the fridge for maybe 6hrs/day and handle the startup of a compressor and really you'd want five of these panels and 200ah+ of batteries. It gets big and expensive really fast just to run once appliance for a quarter of the day.

 

[fraz]

My first bandsaw box.

Awesome style and execution.

I just remembered I never shared my first (and only so far) bandsaw box I made. Made it from little chunk of figured maple. I used it to present engagement ring and yep, we be married now

 

[RRR70]

A box.

 

[Dubbington]

Working my way through some scattered lead past few days. Guessing about 40-50lbs I worked through.

135gr 9mm
200gr 40sw
190-215gr 45acp/45colt. The mold is dope in that it has 4 different pins to allow for hollow point, flat, round nose.


web img

 

[auntiebling]

the kiddo sees me make stuff from time to time and decides he wants to Make A Dragon From wood. Sure
First, draw it
then i make it (out of aluminum and walnut)
after showing it to him he says "you didn't do the claws and the head spikes"

the tail broke off and has been glued once already.
this picture also sucks

 

[auntiebling]

also "made" an awning on the back of the "garage" to hide the saws from the weather. they've been under tarps for the last ~2 years or so and they only work so well

so, i hung some leftover carbon fiber panels from my racing yacht* main sail/wing from a cleat, attached some hinges and made a hood prop rod and now as long as the rain falls Straight Down, they're rusting a little slower!

*no, found free on craigslist.

 

[byke]

You need to move up this way.

 

[Brokenlink]

the kiddo sees me make stuff from time to time and decides he wants to Make A Dragon From wood. Sure
First, draw it
then i make it (out of aluminum and walnut)
after showing it to him he says "you didn't do the claws and the head spikes"

the tail broke off and has been glued once already.
this picture also sucks

Yeah you really fucked up on the claws and head spike thing.