Hihi so I’ve been trying to read all the advice possible before doing anything stupid and the prevailing trend has been “post pics in the builder club as you go”
Prep:
I have my P groups glued and fish paper-ed, and my nickel cut. I’ve also added solder blobs and half of them have the wires already soldered so I only need to make one join on the batteries after welding but it’s still easy to get the probes in. (The fish paper is adhesive backed but I used polyimide tape to double up on the adhesive, and I need to do 4 more strips of nickel)
Welding:
I’ve got a Sequre SQ-SW1 welder, a 5.5Ah “140C” 3S LiPo, and 0.2mm nickel. I’ll add pics of my practice welds on a dead cell in a bit, but I’m having trouble finding the right settings based off others’ reference images. I was always able to tear the nickel off with pliers and not a completely unreasonable amount of force, but it usually rips the nickel in the process so I assume that’s as good as it gets? My strongest welds were ~14ms on a full charge of the LiPo
Questions:
- Anything obvious I forgot?
- Are there go-to settings for the SW1?
- Any overall guides I should read? I’ve gone through a few builds here and this DRI/duck focused thread Esk8 Battery Building for Dummies