kWeld - "Next level" DIY battery spot welder

[Hummina Shadeeba]

Anyone local to San Francisco who can fix these? I have two I’ve broken by contaminants getting in and shorting it. If u fix one u can keep the other.


I’m also desperate to borrow a welder to weld six cells to finish a battery.

 

[Zambam]

Anyone local to San Francisco who can fix these? I have two I’ve broken by contaminants getting in and shorting it. If u fix one u can keep the other.


I’m also desperate to borrow a welder to weld six cells to finish a battery.

What kind of contaminants and under what circumstance did the short occur?

edit: If contaminant was water (salt water the worst), probably not worth trying to repair. If you shorted out the power FET's or diodes, those can be identified with a DVM and replaced (if you can source the same quality parts).

 

[Zambam]

circuit board repair? Kweld to be specific.

So I made a bone head move and got distracted by something and I touched a meter probe to my kweld. I know I know, why is it not in a case, well I printed one but it was mirrored for some reason and I didn’t have any mor…

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[Hummina Shadeeba]

What kind of contaminants and under what circumstance did the short occur?

edit: If contaminant was water (salt water the worst), probably not worth trying to repair. If you shorted out the power FET's or diodes, those can be identified with a DVM and replaced (if you can source the same quality parts).

I’m not sure exactly what it was that did it but something slipped passed the kapton I had it wrapped in