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These are the generic tutorials that hopefully teach you how to make your own, regardless of what project you pick. They also serve as shortcuts for me, so I'm not reinventing the wheel every time I have to re-explain it.
After this, I'm making project-specific tutorials. Spot welder, battery charger, arc/stick welder, arc furnace, arc torch, EDM, hydroxy torch, TIG welder, isolated Variac, plasma cutter, etc. I have a list somewhere.
I try to show as many options and alternatives as possible, but I focus more on the ghetto and newbie side. Stuff teenagers without disposable income or broke college kids might want to make for near-free.
Anyway, I'm always interested in feedback. I'll be adding a part 4 I'm sure, for all the stuff I've poorly explained or if anyone mentions better methods (have some stuff already). I'm also interested in all your MOT project ideas. I don't really have any high voltage projects, almost everything has been low voltage stuff.
I'll see if I could get around to adding to the wiki too, doesn't look like it gets much love.
I suspect I'll fade away after a week or two, but PMs will hit the mailbox so I can always be gotten ahold of that way.
(Also, thanks to admins for spoonfeeding my account into creation, after wading waist-deep in botnet filth. Also, congratulations on hitting 2,000 members today).
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The only thing I see that might need improvement is just voice loudness. You seem a tad quiet at parts and it's somewhat hard to hear when you've got noise in the background.
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wrote ... You seem a tad quiet at parts and it's somewhat hard to hear when you've got noise in the background.
This was more of an issue in Part 1 than Parts 2 & 3 I hope? If you noted the dates, I made Part 1 7 months ago and it was my first video. It has more pops and fuzz in the audio too. Volume should have been more consistent in the latter two, and background noise only loud enough to be interesting.
Thanks for the compliments. Still interested in adding to my project list, if anyone has any ideas.
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Yeah, just part one.
And, because I'm rather OCD about that sort of thing... Amps = current, but current is the best way to refer to it in videos. I hate seeing it referred to as amps. xD
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wrote ... And, because I'm rather OCD about that sort of thing... Amps = current, but current is the best way to refer to it in videos. I hate seeing it referred to as amps.
That was a deliberate decision, since it's an introductory video. I need to mix terms so that if people hear one or the other, they don't hit a brick wall and not know what it means. But, you also can't give people too much, and more people are already familiar with Amps so I refer to the phenomenon as the unit sometimes. More functional in the short term, perhaps detrimental in the long term. "Amperage" might not be a preferred term either, but, it's good to hear. Ditto with "Wattage" instead of "Power".
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The Ultimate MOT Salvaging Tutorials (criticism/feedback welcome)
