Gerame

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In Canada this would need a proper CEC Section 8 service load calculation. A 7 kW battery charger + 7 kW EVSE is already about 58A at 240V before the pool heater, heat pump water heater, or normal house loads. On a 60A service, that only works if Rule 8-106/8-500 load management or measured demand supports it. Otherwise it would typically require a service upgrade, often to 100A/200A depending on the full dwelling load calc. Source: I own a licenced electrical contracting business and checked the code references.

Triped the main 60A house breaker today. 7kW for the battery charging, 7kW for the EV, 2.5kW pool heater, and 1kW for the heat pump hot water. Add in zero sun due to a stormy black sky, and the poor breaker couldn't last.

I think you might find more success using a black and decker toaster oven, and can do many boards at once. Poor mans IC reflow oven. I know someone who invented the bitaxe device PCB using a black and decker pizza oven like this one and a BBQ instant read remote connection thermometer. You’re good at finding deals on the used market. I feel like you could source both for $20-$30

I now see the downside of rushing hot air soldering; it left small solder blobs that are absent on boards where I took my time and heated more slowly. I will probe each board and if it has issues I will fix it with a soldering iron.

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@willreil The giraffe might have something to say when you approach it hahaha

There’s really nothing stopping me from petting the giraffes

@akafaceUS Thoes conductors don’t look very strapped or mechanically protected. But otherwise looks good.

I can’t imagine any inspector signing off on such a large hole in an I-joist.

@willreil @droneforge Will you need to absolutely get one. I got one and never looked back, never has been so easy to ensure optimal flow temp

@droneforge Two reflow ovens 🤩

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@heskelbalas @Silexperience @i2cjak @fishPointer @yacineMTB @willreil thought of you going down a new rabbit hole when I seen this hah.

Wait, you can just 3D print a circuit layout and then copper leaf it, and it works?!! We could have done this the whole time? @i2cjak @fishPointer @yacineMTB

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@willreil Worst case throw on a livestream, and we can hack it to success

@Gerame Nice! I know the brother and dymo printers work well for this, I am hoping to get away with the cheapest one possible 😆

It occurred to me that writing 90 names and addresses by hand would suck. I only need thin labels so I’m thinking a cheap machine like this would work. Ideally I can connect it to my PC so I can mass export the labels using a script. Anyone have experience with this?

@willreil how did you overcome the issue of empty infill. My splicer is giving me trouble on anything more than a single layer.

@willreil Forked your svg2stencil, and made a tin tool fixtures generator from it. Allows you to upload the Gerber and extract individual components. Loving it.

@willreil Here it is: github.com/GerameT/gbr2ti…

@Gerame Oh okay that's really cool! I'm sure others would love that! Send me the github link when its up, no rush!

Thats exactly it, when we do repair on ASIC machines, we will pre-tin the ASIC IC before reflowing it onto the PCB. Since the PCB will already have many soldered on components, the stencil wont lay flat to re-tin mask areas as needed. Il throw it on github shortly maybe its of use to others.

@Gerame No way this looks awesome dude, good work! So would this be for applying the paste for just one component or how does it work? I'm really glad you got some use out of it and were able to make something so cool!

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whoopsie, I had one side of the 555 timer pins flipped. It's been fixed now! I also added the proper little divot indicator.