Search found 24 matches
- Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:48 am
- Forum: Pneumatic Cannons
- Topic: Soldering
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3009
If there's a good mechanical fit between the metals, you can use solder, else brazing would be better. If you're using it for pressure, I suggest using brazing rods rather than solder, I build air conditioners and the pressure can get quite high sometimes ~300psi, I never use solder cuz its not acce...
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:12 pm
- Forum: Combustion Cannons
- Topic: How do you reduce battery voltage?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7297
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:40 am
- Forum: Pneumatic Cannons
- Topic: Heineken mini keg
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3499
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:29 am
- Forum: Combustion Cannons
- Topic: How do you reduce battery voltage?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7297
Hey I had no idea about that stuff from school. I'm in Year 12 physics in Aus which is the last year of school. We were basically told only way to change DC voltage is to convert to AC and use a transformer. Come to the think of it i have come across one of the things you are talking about, i used ...
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:29 am
- Forum: Combustion Cannons
- Topic: How do you reduce battery voltage?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7297
Here's a link to someone's iPod charger that reduces voltage from 6v to 5v, you can use the diagram and equation in there, the rest is just different component ratings. Be sure to put a heatsink on the chip if it gets too hot, like stated before, they burn extra voltages in the form of heat. http://...
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:25 am
- Forum: Combustion Cannons
- Topic: How do you reduce battery voltage?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7297
ps- i assume your in 9th grade (going into 10th soon) correct? you have learned nothing in school at school all they give you is a taste so you figure out what you like so you can study it more deeply later in life. i am in 10th grade and i can tell you sitting in school hasn't done anything other ...
- Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:52 pm
- Forum: Combustion Cannons
- Topic: How do you reduce battery voltage?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7297
- Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:42 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Hobbies
- Topic: New knife
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3826
- Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:38 am
- Forum: Pneumatic Cannons
- Topic: mini compressor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2529
- Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:05 pm
- Forum: General How-To & Discussion
- Topic: What state u in?
- Replies: 155
- Views: 56998
- Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:04 pm
- Forum: General How-To & Discussion
- Topic: US Customs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3467
Put them in your luggage along with like a garden layout plan. If they want you to declare value for customs, just say it's for your own home projects, not for selling, and say it's difficult to buy the right ones in NZ. I put some 20 water pumps and loads of copper piping in my luggage once, into C...
- Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:57 pm
- Forum: Pneumatic Cannons
- Topic: mini compressor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2529
Make your own battery bank, yes. Just google around for methods of safe charging. Make your own battery powered high pressure compressor, I doubt it, it requires a lot of wattage no matter at what voltage, which is difficult to power by batteries besides car battery. Even if you could make a small l...
- Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:26 pm
- Forum: Pneumatic Cannons
- Topic: mini compressor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2529
A nine volt battery won't even start the compressor, pretty much only car batteries will. A 12v compressor suck a lot of amps, but a battery is only designed to chemically feed some milliamps. Charging a car battery yourself requires some research, if not mistaken they produce explosive hydrogen gas...
- Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:17 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Hobbies
- Topic: New knife
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3826
- Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:35 am
- Forum: Combustion Cannons
- Topic: Wiring a 12v fan
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4075
Starting voltage for many computer fans is 7v, below that it won't even start My fan used to run off a 6v battery and pretty fast too. Maybe some fans just suck ass? Many, not all lol. I have a brushless fan with a max power rating of 5v, starts at 1.5v. hmm this actually reminded me, I could use t...