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Specmaster:

--- Quote from: tautech on May 28, 2018, 07:40:37 pm ---Good rule of thumb for Tants is to over rate the voltage to as high as is available. I get 50V versions of any I buy.

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Good practice to at least try and double the nominal voltage.

bd139:
I’m going to see if I can blow up some of these when they arrive. I’m intrigued to see how close to the line you can push them. I’ve got 450 of them to blow so might as well sacrifice a few for science.

Edit: there’s one roll left if anyone wants them. Just offer 8 - auto accepted: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F272767452677

Remember though the line is positive on SMD tants  not negative!

mnementh:
£12.88 postage to the US...  :--

Has anybody experimented with subbing MMLCs for these ubiquitous blighty tants; at least on the more popular models like the Tek 465/24xx families? Or is the hassle of calculating necessary value vs derating/exponentially lower ESR just not worth it?


mnem
Things that make you go "Hmmm..."

tautech:

--- Quote from: mnementh on May 28, 2018, 03:37:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: tautech on May 28, 2018, 04:50:07 am ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on May 28, 2018, 03:56:36 am ---
Now it's fixed, I can use it to make a proper rip fence for my huge-arse table-saw; got me some old bed frames to cut up for angle iron.  >:D

mnem
Oh, and my Keto diet is going gangbusters as well. Averaging 20 grams/day without suffering too much at all; sometimes even have enough left over for a little morsel of dark chocolate as a bedtime treat. 8)

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How huge arsed ?
Pics ?

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Craftsman Model 113; 10"/3HP. Cast iron deck, with both cast iron extensions. Weighs almost as much as a mnem.  :-DD

Here's a pic of it's huge arse (and mine) from when I was cutting hardwood for my "recycled from and with recycled" patio chair project.  :o I think I posted about this project before.

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Nice, especially with the bench extensions.
As a teenager I did a chippy apprenticeship and we used a Kiwi made treadle bench saw that docked and ripped.
Not precision by any means but only a poor tradesman blames their tools, right ?
Some years later I had enough bits and bobs to build my own but wanted a 3ph unit for the addition grunt it provides. So I knocked up a frame and knowing the table's always too small built it 1.2m long x 1m wide. Deck was 20mm ply, 400mm blade driven with a 3hp 6 pole motor. It was a beast, you could rip 5'' softwood at nearly walking pace and would dock a 14 x 3 (3x14 for you Yanks) in a couple of seconds. Sadly lost on a shed fire a few years back.  >:(

Shortly after we were looking to replace many of the items lost and I came upon the same model that I used as a teenager but it was way down country some 6hrs drive away. They were an all steel fabricated affair called a McKenzie and in their day a pretty good workhorse.
Regardless I grabbed it from our NZ Trademe (like eBay) and asked the seller to hang onto it for a couple of months until we might be down his ways. So when trying to hatch a plan how to get it home some deals went down on Siglent stuff I sell that demanded I pile the delivery into my SUV and drop it to the buyer a few hrs drive past where the sawbench was.  :phew: Back-load time, yeha.  :clap: Getting it the back was no problem and a comfortable fit and we'd also taken the racks to strap the 8ft roller beds onto the roof.

Bit of a step down from the one I made years back as this one's only 2hp and 12" blade but still big enough for the work I occasionally need it for these days.
Here's a couple of pics, see one is set up with the blade to the right and the other to the left....never realized until now they had this option.  :-//
Mine's a lefty version in the same original colors but considerably tidier than both these.





Oh yeah, I've got one smaller and another much larger that's tractor PTO driven.  :scared:

Cubdriver:
Damn, tautech, that thing's a beast!!  I need to excavate my garage and get mine wired up again (a relatively tiny Canuckian ten incher I got as a floor model back around 2005; it came from a local tool supply store that I should never have set foot in), and also get the router table purchased a few years ago up and running to do the trim for the never ending house renovation I've been in the midst of for seven years now...

-Pat

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