Recent content by blastfromdapast

thanks, I ordered some automotive ones, that should do the trick. Not fancy nor do they light up but solid. Thanks again Doug Baird

thanks so much for this quick reply. I am raring to go and get it done. This is fun! Doug Baird

So, just to check ONE more time before I get the gear out, after I strip the caps and torroidal cores off the board, I am beefing up the trace between the MOSFET legs, cutting the large trace on the opposite side of board, configuring the single cap and inductor, and use the 18AWG to run thru...

thanks. Will find a camera when done and shoot a couple pic and send them. Thanks for all the help. Doug

In my better and younger years, I as using single strand 1/32 in to replace blown signal lines, (very low current but those days are gone I am afraid. I just want to complete this one project. to make an IH as small and portable as I can, Will keep on as I have 4 more modules and 4 more on the...

could I just solder a wire across the two legs of the MOSFETS?

this going to sound nutty in this day and age but I have neither camera nor a cell phone. I am a real throwback on the phone, I just never had the use and the camera I did have is somewhere but unless I get lucky I have not a clue where it is. The COVID restrictions up here only allow 1 person...

I'll look again under a better light. Thanks again Doug

I'll be darned but can you see the trace or do you just gently scrape it as I can see o sign of it on the surface of the PCB. My eyes are not what they used to be but I can only try to follow the picture and hope I find it I guess. Even with a strong light I cannot (held behind it, I can see no...

Right above the following sentence is another view of the trace between the MOSFETS. How did you make that connection: Once the sub-assembly is soldered in place, congratulations, you've build a HalfPint. Thanks. I tried leaving a msg earlier but did not see it. Doug

In the pic right above where it says: "And when were done with that we make sure the whole trace is tinned well with solder;" how did you make that trace and can one just jump a wire between the two MOSFETS? Maybe I'm not getting it but can you explain that operation please? Thanks in advance Doug

I have had mine since 2012 and it takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. But I like to have another elbow (glass) for the both ends of the hose and run it thru a water piece. It gets you some .........er medicated.

thanks for that, I assume it is me that has the lack of the nomenclature but it also was just a point I was not too sure about. Thanks again. Kind of a new thing for me although I have made 4 but they were as stated with the 'standard out of the bag' devices and with a power switch from the...

mind you and on a more cavalier 'sick' type joke I used to work at a Dodge garage after the first caravans came out and there was a recall and I appologize to anyone who this has actually happened to but on the news it came out like there were babies flying out of the backs of Dodge Caravan vans...

no WAY am I an expert on anything and this may be just in the vocabulary but in my experience and understanding of the cheap IH modules and my undefstanding of how inductors operate the coil generates NO heat whatsoever and it is the magnetic flux working on ferrous (steel, nickle, and there is...