What is that liquid? Cooling water?
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are you trimming after welding?
Its the negative end so less dangerous, but still risky and generally unprofessional
What do you mean trimming after welding? The extra piece there is for the series wire to solder onto so I donāt have to solder directly onto the spot welds, It will have an additional solder joint in the center
I donāt understand what the point would be to round edges on the negative side? It wonāt be touching anything
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oh I see. youāre not trimming the negative side.
I thought it was a before trimming picture. since I saw rounded and not rounded.
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reading is FUN-dementalā¦ itās silicone pot trivit (tirivet) bought at the dollar storeā¦ it will change your lifeā¦
(a silicone thing ladys put fukking hot pots on fresh off the stoveā¦)
If it tears through the shrink wrap youāll be sorry, you have a CF lined deck and I assume balance leads running by?
cocktail sweat
I didnāt think about the single layer of CF but I guess that could cause a problem - the balance leads will be in the center channel so I donāt think theyāll collide with the edges.
Which shrink wrap section are you referring to?
Do you mean shrink wrap around the whole pack? I have fish paper so I could cover the sharp ends to prevent them from rubbing on the deck.
it just looks lazy and douchieā¦
if you bought a pack which would you rather see on inspectionā¦
careā¦ means caring all the way through the processā¦ making it the bestest without picking the flyshit out of the pepper
zach gets it
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Itās the kind of thing where if you fix it now which isnāt that hard, youāll never have to even think about it later
You are wrapping your parallel groups rightā¦?
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I suppose I get what youāre saying. I donāt believe that a 3p pack is a fair comparison but I understand the concept
Sure I agree - Iāll do it right on the next 6 since I have to wait for more nickel anyway.
Yes I am, they will all be wrapped around the outside
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BTW @ZachTetra i wish I had your young manās eyesā¦ I never-ever-never dare to get that close to the edgeā¦
nice weldsā¦ proper grouping if weāre arm-chair quarterbacking Iād say a little under-penetratedā¦ but Iām sure you did a pull test on test cells so Iāll shudddupā¦
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Aww thanks 
The camera flash makes them look a little light but they were running hot enough to darken the nickel around them, yanked on them with pliers (testing on a sanded cell from the scrap pile) and it left some nasty spires behind
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like i saidā¦ I trusted your scienceā¦ photos donāt often represent reality completelyā¦ but d00dā¦ honestly i respect those weldsā¦
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damnit. now iām on the TS 80/100 hype train again.
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Love mine - does the trick for sure and being able to run off my power bank is super handy
I find silicone trivets the bestest things EVARā¦ a soldering pointā¦ a cocktail coaster, a dollar at the dollar-storeā¦ no fireā¦ non-slipā¦
itās natures perfect soldering upon materialā¦
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I have bothā¦ and both are greatā¦ I take them with me on adventuresā¦ but when Iām at homeā¦ I fire up the Aoyue with the flux dispenser the solder reel,ā¦ the feel of a real thingā¦
I have an Aoyue 9378 and a fukton of tipsā¦ if I canāt solder with thatā¦ I have a big assed weller iron with a 1/4 wide tipā¦ or a torchā¦ but in all honesty if you need more heat than thatā¦ improve technique or crimp wiresā¦ too much heat is bad vibrationallyā¦
fess you can have bothā¦