Thas was way better and smaller then my previous tries.

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@@MyPlayHouse I just got it in the mail from Amazon for $72 and all I had to do is press and hold the button and BANG! I got little solder leads on my tiny CR927 Li-ion coin cells and soldered them onto my logger board's RTC clock and set the time.

I was about to say the same! I was very curious what kind of batteries were inside and assumed 18650s so I'm glad that was cleared up

Thanks for the info! they keep changing the links :-(

@@MyPlayHouse I wish there was a way to change the delay till the weld is triggered. mine seems to just go as soon as it shorts, I wish it was about one second.

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Where do you find your copper nails???

@@elfpimp1 In any good hardware store or even on-line. Just google "copper nails". Take a magnet with you because some shops sell fake copper nails made of steel.

Would you share the link for the one you have for 26$ ?

@@tomas_klouda Mine is not available anymore. But I found a similar one at a similar price: www.lazada.com.ph/products/agoal-spot-welder-portable-6-gears-adjustable-mini-spot-welding-machine-for-18650-battery-spot-welder-spot-welding-machine-tool-kit-i1547930812-s6569684725.html

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I did 300 spot welds,, and I got tired before it did :-)

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That's exactly what I want to do 🙂

Thank You,, I can see that it is very popular! :-)

Did same and purchased one locally. I had to open it and screw the battery on the main board but otherwise all good :)

auto discharge is a pain in the ass. prevent you from getting good pressure down before it fires. especially with thicker gauge nickel strip for high power applications.

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And on battery, the last one flipped my 230volt 13A fuse 😬

@@MyPlayHouse Would it be possible to run it on one of the phases of your 3 phase power that was originally intended for the water heater? Surely it won't saturate a 50 amp supply?

@@MyPlayHouse I posted a comment about this, I have the same spot welder from bangood, I use a 30amp fuse, and a 'c' breaker in the fuse box for high inrush currents. Those spot welders draw over 15amps at 230v, the lights in my house flicker whenever I do a weld and I have a 60amp supply into the house.

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Compared to everything else I have trued,, this is great 👍

Thank You,, nice to know,, I have used 0.12 & 0.15mm ribbon strips and they work well,, I have heard that 0.2mm can be a problem.

Make sure you're not applying too much pressure - you want high resistance through only applying very light pressure for best results. The fact that sharpening the tips worked is pretty good evidence that was the root problem.

@@anticapitalize Sharpening might not have been the issue. Copper can oxidize a layer you can't see but effect performance. The sharpening could have just removed / cleaned the oxidation and it wasn't the "sharpness" that actually fixed it.

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I have also been steeping mine up.

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Some of them you need to add your own battery. This one is a complete solution.

@@MyPlayHouse Well, that's even better then, I did not know that. For the price, "with" battery?! Good deal I think.

Compared to the other two tries,, this was great.

You obviously have no understanding of how this work

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@@MyPlayHouse 👌👌 also, I don't mean "toy" in a demeaning sense. I'm an electrical engineer and I also call $500k equipment as "toys".

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You are so welcome!

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Hi John Brandolini Thank You very much! Yes when you order something,, you kind of want it NOW :-) glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

@@MyPlayHouse I was shocked this afternoon to find the package from banggood outside my front door. That's the fastest turnaround yet from them. One of the uses I intend to put it to is rebuilding defunct Black & Decker battery packs for some of the tools I have. Mind you I replaced those tools a while back but I abhor throwing potentially useful items out. I found a source on Ebay that sells the sub c 4/5 nimh cells so I can rebuild the packs for around $15. It was minimally charged when it arrived so I haven't had a chance to test it yet. The defective packs I have will be the guinea pigs for the testing. Thanks again for making me aware of this tool.

@@MyPlayHouse Morten, I just wanted to give you an update. I ordered some sub-c NIiMh cells to rebuild the battery packs that power my legacy B&D products. There where some vendors on Ebay that were selling "new" packs but considering this equipment has been discontinued for quite a while I decided to rebuild the packs I had. The new cells came with tabs which made the process easier but I tell you from having to try to solder wires to cells in the past this spot welder is p!sser! One electrode holds the tab in place while the other completed the circuit. And, as you pointed out, setting 2 does the job. Many thanks, guy! You saved me from throwing good equipment out.

Thank You,, I see your comment on the Dewalt video right under this (in my view) :-)

You do not feel it at all,, but the first few time you worry a bit,, and it does not get hot.

So if I didn't insulate it, it won't short me?

It is a cool little thing.

@@MyPlayHouse it didnt even power on,, so i have just sent it back and will get one

Sorry, I do not understand what you are going for 😬

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Did you use it? is it any good?

@@thedave7760 I do, and it is! It does occasionally blow a hole through the nickel that came with it, but usually that's because the setting it up too high. I spot welded about 10 cells for a hobby drone pilot, and I've spot welded some cells together for DIY lantern projects. For what it is I am honestly impressed.

@@804USAR Thanks I was worried. I will get some proper nickel strips not plated steel it will probably be better.

@@804USAR Thank you for posting this information :) I'm def saving to get one of these now! :D

As you can see in the start of the video I tried other stuff,,, this tiny little one worked the best.

I think I see mine becoming weaker as well.

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@@MyPlayHouse after doing more thicker weld i wouldn’t able to get good weld may be one or two weld i got the one with supercaps version it is very strong

No problem 👍

It can be found a little cheaper,, $55 is a good prices.

I was also positively surprised, of just how well this was working.

bought the same one for $67 a few days ago. first one was DOA, power button didn't do anything. Received a replacement 2 days later and it works like a dream. Hopefully I can wrap my brain around the limitations of 0.1 nickel in my projects since I've read this doesn't do well with anything thicker.

Very nice video. I have usein it. Do you shure it is not battery, but condensers 20000Farrad?

I recommend it,, it worked well 🤔

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Yes,, way more then what I need,, this small battery one does the job.

@@MyPlayHouse yea I don't blame you, to be honest the battery spot welder looks better.

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You cannot make RC packs from 18650's. There isn't enough current unless you buy special 30A cells which are expensive. Those ones are only about 2000mAh so that's 15C. For RC you usually need a lot more power than that.- you are better using LiPo pouch cells,

@@johncoops6897 yes, the c rating is lower than with standart lipos but 18650 battery packs are mostly used for long range flights or flights with long endurance. since most smaller efficient rc planes only consume about 10 - 15 amps on full power a 18650 pack is enough to fly

Li-ion cells also come in sizes other than 18650, there are 3-4Ah 2*700 cells that'll run cool at up to 35A (Sanyo NCR2070c, Samsung 30T, Molicel P42A, I've personally tested all, all handle 35A continuous just fine & burst rate probably double that). I've never used them but I know there are much larger cylindrical cells capable of 50+A. Still incomparable to a great lipo pack but can be not too terribly far off, plenty acceptable for lots of ground based RC stuff. There are always li-ion flat cells as well... I think I'm missing why I can't spot weld my own lipo packs (besides the safety issues - I'm a trained electrician & have been repairing mains single/polyphase AC and all sort of DC devices for probably 30 years without any accidents). I also just spotwelded up a new battery pack for one of my UAV groundstations, previously it supported a 5200mAh 2p 18650 pack that'd degraded to ~3900mAh, I realized the battery drawer could be just slightly modified to accept 2x21700 or 20700 cells and a protection circuit now. A set made with Sanyo NCR20700B, apparently the 1mm lesser diameter baby brother of a Tesla NCR21700B (which don't come with the positive terminal attached, to save weight for tesla, the whole line is composed of fantastic cells imo, and another 10Ah pack with a pair of Samsung 50T when I realized I could squeeze in two more mm. I've got two huge sacks of 5200-8000mAh 3s lipos, able to fly a relatively large 4k video & photography drone many hours at a time, all day basically, without ever having to bring two base stations or charge on the go (the oem battery is like $80, I built much better packs for under 25ea) Plus RC predated any Li chemistries.. obviously there're still many uses for a terminal welder.

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I did do a video , where I build my own,, it did not work that well :-/ so I got this one,, and it is much better.

you can solder aluminium with a blow torch and aluminium soldering rods.

It is still doing good! Thank You :-)

I see better with glasses and more light 😳 That is my “Work Glasses 👓 “

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Awesome, thank you!

Copper is really good at leading both current and heat,, this tiny spot welder,, is to small,, and nikkle strips of about 0,2mm is the upper limit.

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To your point 2) I glued a Velcro pad on the box and on my silicone work pad. Holds perfectly.

longer cables mean more resistance, means higher powerloss and current draw from battery and hotter components and shorter life span

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It is just the first 10-20 welds, where you think about touching the metal.

I do not think this is a mainstream tool, that some one like Harbor Freight would be selling..

@@MyPlayHouse If it lasts longer than a week, Harbor Freight wont have it.

You are very welcome 🤗

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It’s okay cool 🤗

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It is pretty inexpensive,, so you might just want to try,

Yes,,, Safety Slippers overrule all other safety equipment! it's not as if I am making the rules!:-)

Thank You,, I do know that trick :-)

That is nice to know,, think the stuff I use is 0.12 and 0.15. Thank You!

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Well I figured out everything from the back of it :-)

Sorry I do not know of other uses.

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I do not think this one is good for much more then this,, bigger stuff,, you need a lot more power.

Tin Robot Toys?

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Yes, finally something that works!

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I have only been using this for the Nickle strips for batteries,, so I do not know :-/

Yeah we need to try stainless steel

@@wolverinex4243hi did you ever try the portable spot welder on stainless steel ?

Makes it very easy!

Thank you! Cheers!

Hope it works out.

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I have used 0.12mm and 0.15mm with out any issues, I hear that 0.2mm is the limit for this one.

Did you get that exact device or some replica?

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Safety is a priority!

It works really well for what I am doing. I am happy with it,, :-) an OLED display,,No surround sound? :-)

@@MyPlayHouse i meant one of those small monochrome oled displays, as on the TS-100 soldering iron, it is 128*32 pixels; super crisp text, low power consumption, and it costs 1-2$ per lcd (i2c interface) from the usual chinese stores :) It allows to print values on the screen (for the TS100, you can see the celcius (or farenheit) degrees, rather than 4 levels of power), and thus you can have more precise settings, know the settings exactly (here you would print the amperage output, and the pulse duration, for instance... and having those settings may enable you to succeed the spot welding on copper) Anyway, cheers!

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Yes,, missed opportunity right there,, 🤐 I’ll have to change my batteries so I can hit the spot next time 🙄

So tiny, and still works good :-)

Rumer will have it that 0,2mm does not stick well..

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Over 300 welds and that was 0,15mm.

No I do not think so,, 0,2mm is about the limmet

There was just enough on the back of the box :-)

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This works great for this low prices.. 300++ weldes on a charge, time for a brake at that point anyway.

I have used 0.12 and 0.15mm and that has worked good.

@@MyPlayHouse Thank you my friend. Keep at it. 💪💪💪🙏✌️🙏

That is just about the same I am spot welding,,, so that works.

To be quite honest,, I got tired before it did,, I would estimate at least 3-400 fully charged.

@@MyPlayHouse WOW, that's impressive for such a small package. I think I'd have to put longer leads on it but that's simple. Thank you!

The most I did were 250 in a day and it seemed still to be ready for more.

@ heck even if it's "only" 250 per charge that's still great for what it is. Buying an expensive spot welder was the main thing holding me back from learning to do this

@@PhysiqueGeek just be careful with it as there is a very large and angry _danger pillow_ in it.

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I have one just like this. It rocks tbh. I was wondering wtf about the bare electrodes too, until they arrived and I found that they're covered in nice thick adhesive-type transparent heat shrink tube. It just isn't apparent in pictures or video.

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uhh that is an improvement :-)