Is there any chance this could damage the charger or the battery? I have an old battery charger no buttons or settings.
Can I see a pic or your set up please?
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I have an old Schumacher 10A battery charger from like 1970. It doesnāt seem to care about being on the battery while welding. No clue about yours though!
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I donāt think it damages the battery any more than spot welding normally would. If I didnāt do this the battery voltage/amperage would drop after a few hundred welds and require longer weld times(joules for you k-welders) or just taking a break and charging. The battery charger I use still works fine after doing this for around 10K of my welds so it should be okay.
Charger on 10a charging when welding. The clamps in the back are from the charger. Malectrics welder on negative terminal and the black bees nest looking thing is where I weld. That black thing is actually a sneak peek at my 10s10p pack I have to weld tomorrow.
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I am going to try that too, but I am trying to figure out how to get good welds on .2mm and I kinda think I need a stronger bigger battery
Or a second in parallel
Or shorter, thicker cables and lower-resistance connections.
Or more than one of the above. It all helps.
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I havenāt thought of that, can it be of a lower CCA value? In parallel the plants will add up, right?
Could you explain this please?
Beefier lugs, bullets, crimps, whatever. I donāt know what your setup looks like so I canāt be more specific, but every bottleneck you remove leaves more power for welding. More metal = more better.
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Oh understood I will take pics in the morning.
Nickel on nickel welds are generally pretty shit unless you have a cell or other metal beneath themā¦ and even then they are questionable. I hate stacking nickel. Gives me the heebie jeebies.
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Instantly makes me think of that hack Psychotiller.
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I see, good to know that it is not just me lol.
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The only standards that make me look ok.
might be going out on a limb there.
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You could probably sell that battery here, thereās nothing wrong with it. Neatness adds value, but as long as a pack uses the correct safety techniques then there wouldnāt be anything wrong with selling it
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Iām doing a bit of battery selling locally now
I wanna get on the forum but Iām to scared that I will be burnt down by everyone here
It seems youāre saying you donāt think your packs would be up to the standards of this forum?
How can that be a bad thing? It would keep you from selling your packs here until you have enough confidence in them, which every builder should have before trying to sell.
Or it means you could post here and get stomped on by the community (Iām being overdramatic) until you learn all you need to become an awesome pack builder with the confidence needed to sell to the esk8 community.
Realizing that the community might have issues with the pack building skills you have now is not a bad thingā¦it is an opportunity. 
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Nope
I believe they are fine
I think he community will think they are high quality too
Just some people will take into account old packs I built and shame me using them
So what?
How does that have anything to do with the packs you would build now? Build great packs and prove them wrong. 
Everyone makes crappy packs when they first start building.
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One way to find out 
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What makes this pack not suitable for selling?? Iām sorry, am I missing something here?
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