Homemade induction heater is a win! (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Smokeydope@lemmy.world to c/trees@lemmy.world

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Managed this rig up a homemade induction heater from a 10$ board off amazon +7$ cigarette plug terminal cable

Induction heater is for my dynavap, the commercial ones are quite expensive and I figured it would be a cheap and easy project to make one up

I made a quick YouTube video showing the IH off :)

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[-] jared@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

How powerful is the board? i've always wanted to melt metal with an induction coil.

[-] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The board is rated for up to 12v10a so 120 watts. Its able to heat up the dynavap to combusting temps in about 10 seconds so I wouldn't doubt its able to melt thin wire in short order. For my purposes it's actually almost too powerful so either need to lower the turns in coil or add a potentiometer on to the circuit

[-] canitendtherabbits@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Or get a housing for the unit and a glass slide for the inside of the coil. By the time you do that it will be pretty dialed in. Source: I’ve built a few

[-] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Do you have any good suggestions for what I can do for housing unit? Was thinking of getting a little wood cigar box from local smoke shop. Glass slide is a good idea. I actually do have it pretty dialed in now after a week of daily use took a bit of time and practice.