Community Spot Welder

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Community spot welder initiativewas started to help people with building 18650 DIY Powerwall packs with reduced costs.
You can register your interest here to borrow the Keenlabs Kweld spot welder in conjunction with www.18650shrink.com.

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Everyone kind enough to allow the use of their tools must take all reasonable measures to have the item returned in good condition & in the allotted time frame. Photo ID - & KnowenActive community members on the forum or on www.facebook.com/diypowerwalls is a must. Newbies must earn theirright to the community spot welder project.

 
Community Spot Welder - Are you keen to be a part of this project?
Name
Location
Type of welder
how to contact you.

Trying to get the forum post sorted I'm available on skype if you'd like to talk about it skype:hbpowerwall

Thank-you in advance for your offers -

Pete!
 
hbpowerwall said:
Community Spot Welder - Are you keen to be a part of this project?
Name
Location
Type of welder
how to contact you.

Trying to get the forum post sorted I'm available on skype if you'd like to talk about it skype:hbpowerwall

Thank-you in advance for your offers -

Pete!

Yes, I'd like to be involved even though I'm a newbie to the forum. I've been watching you for years though and have outfitted my powerwall project based on your guidance.
Chris Cotton
Clearwater, Florida USA
Nocturnal
 
Pete how do we track were the Community Spot Welder is at any given time and how long do we give the recipient to use the welder? Should it be sent back to the owner after use or to the next user from the last users location? Just asking because I have already gotten a request for my welder here in the USA.
 
I would send via Certified mail, imho. That way they have to sign for it. Secondly, just like the "Awesomeist 18650 Charger Thingy", it should just be passed on from user to user, but where the original owner knows where it's at at all times.
I suppose another way would be that the owner pays for shipping outbound, and the user pays for shipping back to said owner. I suppose this would work too and be fair on cost of shipping.
 
Personally, I'm not posting if someone needs it enough they can drive to pick it up. That way you can get ID , shake their hand etc. I guess it will work differently for everyone. The intended recipients would also be highly active in the community with a documented quantity of cells ready to go.
 
hbpowerwall said:
Personally, I'm not posting if someone needs it enough they can drive to pick it up...

Hahha, over here in the US, we aren't all bunched up on the corners of the country :p
 
I'm in Christchurch NZ, and to do what i wan't to do i'm going to have to buy cells, and my own welder.
That's cool. There's so much work at the moment i'm time poor.
January will see me setting up a Kweld from the 24V home supply.

My thoughts are people living close by could bring their project to my hovel and borrow a workshop bench?
I might set it up for 230VAC, and post it out to the lucky few, but i think keeping it at home most of the time would work better for me.
 
I have a Suunko 709A in South of Sweden. Pickup and handshake and its borrowable. Normal requirements like to be able to show that you got the gear to use it and so forth.
Will have atlest 1 more spotwelder in short for this project.

They can also come to my place and do the spot welding instead of borrowing it if the person wants.
 
That's a neat idea - if anyone wants to use my space - you're welcome too maybe we could make it into a live feed party haha ...

 
Pete is such a heckler! :p
 
Ok guys/gals,

My Community spot welder is getting shipped out today to the 1st requester I received. I will update the group once he is done with it so he may ship it to the next requestor. Cheers!
 
BrianWilson said:
Ok guys/gals,

My Community spot welder is getting shipped out today to the 1st requester I received. I will update the group once he is done with it so he may ship it to the next requestor. Cheers
First 4 - 14s6p made with the community spot welder. Thanks Brian.

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Mine ships out today. Will be used to build battery packs for an EV project where they going to compete in Bridgestone race.
 
Hello,

Sorry for my english, but i'm a french native.

We want to give a second life to many objects, including battery. So we need a spot welder because it's safer.
But we have a enormous budget of 00000000000,00$, everything comes from our pockets... So i search a cheap, reliable and safe solution.
And we like DIY, DIY is usualy cheaper, DIY is learning, DIY is sharing.

So we want to do our spot welder, and yours seems perfect. Is it open source ?
 
bogdahn said:
Hello,

Sorry for my english, but i'm a french native.

We want to give a second life to many objects, including battery. So we need a spot welder because it's safer.
But we have a enormous budget of 00000000000,00$, everything comes from our pockets... So i search a cheap, reliable and safe solution.
And we like DIY, DIY is usualy cheaper, DIY is learning, DIY is sharing.

So we want to do our spot welder, and yours seems perfect. Is it open source ?

There are many threads on the topic of "Spot Welder". If you do an Advanced Search and change to title, you'll get a lot of results. There are several custom built spot welders, and several that are open source where the parts are available and you assemble, and then there are full blown systems ready to use out of the box.
 
Just received kweld and somewhat ratty foot switch. Anxious to kick some eveready bunny ass
 
I'd like to build myself one too but I'll probably go for something simple, no ICs or displays.
 
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