Friday, March 23, 2012

Re: [HamBrewers] Welding with Batteries

 

A decent welding machine is less costly than a car bettery, its around 4500Rs. Don't expect decent build its made of AL wire and the core will be fixed in the most ugly fashion.But it works !
 
In chennai the best place is broadway just walk and look around.

73
Hari
--- On Tue, 3/13/12, Prasad Agrahar <ad_prasad@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Prasad Agrahar <ad_prasad@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [HamBrewers] Welding with Batteries
To: "HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com" <HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 3:39 PM

 
Rajesh
 
I was quoting from my experience while working in auto-electrical equipment field and we were using automotive batteries larger than car batteries capacities like 85 Ah and bigger. I have personally experienced exploding batteries. Trues they are designed to deliver large current bursts but they can explode under when short circuited.
 
As I said it was long ago. Technology may have eveolved but Internet still has stories of exploding vehicular batteries. Extreme caution is suggested.
 
-Prasad VU2AEA
Olney MD

From: Rajesh K <kc2kby@airtelmail.in>
To: HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:41 AM
Subject: RE: [HamBrewers] Welding with Batteries



Car batteries are designed to handle sudden current surges such as the self starter kicking on. They are not designed for deep cycling like inverter batteries. Deep cycling a car battery 5-6 times would kill it. That having been said, car batteries may/might be suitable for welding provided arc is run only for few seconds at a time. Also, the "electrode" that is mentioned in the clip may not be the regular welding electrode. It could be carbon/graphite electrode. The heat is enough for small @ home welding.
 
73
Rajesh VU3RGK
 
From: HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Prasad Agrahar
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:38 AM
To: HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [HamBrewers] Welding with Batteries
 
 
That could be very risky. Batteries are often known to explode when subjected to short-circuit-like situations. They generate so much of gases (oxygen + hydrogen) that they explode due to pressure. In early eighties I worked as a R&D engineer in an automotive electrical machines factory and I have seen these accidents happening a few times. The result was never very pleasing.
 
Possible that the battery technology has evolved into safer batteries, who knows. I may be wrong.
 
-Prasad
 
From: Aravind Balasubramanian (VU2ABS) <vu2abs@gmail.com>
To: HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 4:12 PM
Subject: [HamBrewers] Welding with Batteries

http://www.4x4ham.com/content.php?213-Trail-Welding-with-Batteries&s=d8999bc7f6b6c4937685592a9e5f7ae7
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[HamBrewers] Re: need a simple 2m or 144mhz sdr circuit

 

Hi friends,

Perhaps Subham was looking for this :
http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?339016-For-The-SDR-Fans

73,
Yan XV4Y.

--- In HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com, Dev Ramaprabhu <vu2dev@...> wrote:
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> Dear Subham,
>  
>  Greetings!
>  
>  We have made SDRs (RX only) for HF ,particularly for 40MTr band! Not for VHF!
>  
>  Of course you could always use a down converter from VHF to HF and that should be OKay!
>  But I foresee two problems: Majority of the Drivers we have used donot support FM (Of course WINRAD does but the Bandwidth it needs is too high) and the second problem is our VHF band is quite wide in HF terms (2MHz) So a simple solution is not looking promising whereas a tuned (meaning stepped LO for the first converter) Down Converter with extra large SoundCard with a big Sampling rate should do the trick! Is it simple? Obviously not! But of course there may be other solutions as I am looking from the point of view of our SDR. All the details of our SDR (including artwork) are available on our Blog; http://hamrmipl.blogspot.com/ and may be you may find a simpler/better solution!  
>  
>  Thanks and very best regards, dev
>
> --- On Wed, 3/21/12, shubham <shubhamforme@...> wrote:
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>
> From: shubham <shubhamforme@...>
> Subject: [HamBrewers] need a simple 2m or 144mhz sdr circuit
> To: HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 3:37 PM
>
>
> hi
> i am trying to construct a sdr for 2m or 144mhz for my shack ,
> can any one give me any details about a simple circuit for 2m sdr??
> kindly help
> thanks..
> shubham
>
>
>
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Re: [HamBrewers] need a simple 2m or 144mhz sdr circuit

 

Dear Subham,
 
 Greetings!
 
 We have made SDRs (RX only) for HF ,particularly for 40MTr band! Not for VHF!
 
 Of course you could always use a down converter from VHF to HF and that should be OKay!
 But I foresee two problems: Majority of the Drivers we have used donot support FM (Of course WINRAD does but the Bandwidth it needs is too high) and the second problem is our VHF band is quite wide in HF terms (2MHz) So a simple solution is not looking promising whereas a tuned (meaning stepped LO for the first converter) Down Converter with extra large SoundCard with a big Sampling rate should do the trick! Is it simple? Obviously not! But of course there may be other solutions as I am looking from the point of view of our SDR. All the details of our SDR (including artwork) are available on our Blog; http://hamrmipl.blogspot.com/ and may be you may find a simpler/better solution!  
 
 Thanks and very best regards, dev

--- On Wed, 3/21/12, shubham <shubhamforme@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: shubham <shubhamforme@yahoo.com>
Subject: [HamBrewers] need a simple 2m or 144mhz sdr circuit
To: HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 3:37 PM

hi
i am trying to construct a sdr for 2m or 144mhz for my shack ,
can any one give me any details about a simple circuit for 2m sdr??
kindly help
thanks..
shubham



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[HamBrewers] need a simple 2m or 144mhz sdr receiver circuit

 

hi
i am trying to construct a sdr receiver for 2m or 144mhz for my shack ,
can any one give me any details about a simple circuit for 2m sdr??
kindly help
thanks..
shubham

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Re: [HamBrewers] need a simple 2m or 144mhz sdr circuit

 

Hi,
Have you checked out KB9YIG's softrock ensemble vhf rx kit (www.kb9yig.com)
?
The build instructions can be found at
http://www.wb5rvz.com/sdr/ensemble_rx_ii_vhf/
Hope this helps,
rk

----- Original Message -----
From: "shubham" <shubhamforme@yahoo.com>
To: <HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 3:37 PM
Subject: [HamBrewers] need a simple 2m or 144mhz sdr circuit

> hi
> i am trying to construct a sdr for 2m or 144mhz for my shack ,
> can any one give me any details about a simple circuit for 2m sdr??
> kindly help
> thanks..
> shubham
>
>

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