WELDING YOUR

WELDING - ITSAlmost a quarter of a century are a subscriber of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”. About the same age are engaged in electric welding apparatus (ESA). Convinced that the most appropriate mass and power “svarochnik” – with a toroidal magnetic core (for example, from a burnt-out electric motor power 3-5 kW). Manufacturing technology of such devices has been maintained in the pages of “Modeller-designer” (see, in particular, publication in № 8’92, 11’92, 3’94, 9’94, 1 ’96, 3’96, 8’97, 11’99). From my own experience and practice of other handmade designers, I also believe it is appropriate to emphasize that the idle current from sturdy welding transformer designed for connection to a household 220-volt network should be of the order of 0.5-1 A. If a smaller value of this parameter decreases the power at most – heated magnetic core, and with it the whole of ESA.

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BRIGHTNESS — THE CHOICE

THE BRIGHTNESS — TO CHOOSE FROMFor lighting your desktop in many the approach is simple: that would screw me a light bulb more powerful. As a result, the “no cause” blurred vision, development of visual fatigue, drop in performance, the emergence of signs of sitophobia (photophobia). And it never occurred to us malaekahana that to create the proper lighting comfort long-established mass production of various lamps with adjustable brightness, among which the worthy place is occupied, in particular, sconces and floor lamps with built in dimmer switches.

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SO IT WILL BE SAFER

IT WOULD BE SAFERIn the video monitor МС6105 it makes sense to replace the output transformer of lines TCDS-8 to a strong — TVs-90П4 with the use of voltage multiplier. Despite the absolute similarity of mounting and Pinout DDS-8 and FA-90П4, it is not necessary to solder the last one right in the destined socket on the Board. It is necessary to consolidate it at a distance of 3-4 mm from the Board from the installation details (via additional threaded Bush M2,5 with a length of 10 mm). The rest of the installation to run individual conductors (see Fig.).

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LAMP “BOOK”

LAMP Sitting down at the table to work, you take from the shelf a thick book and open it. But what is it? She turns into… a small lamp! It turns out that the book cover hides a cartridge with a bulb, cord with switch and soft shade-accordion. Quite a bit to push the doors cover – the original and the miniature lamp is steadily on the foot, giving a smooth local light to the workplace. Hungarian journal “Earmaster” advises to acquire such a lamp it is compact and easy to use: did some work and removed a book series.

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LONGEVITY WILL BE THE LAMP

LONGEVITY WILL BE THE LIGHTOr night duty (with reduced brightness) lighting, allowing at the same time significantly increase the lamp life, can be implemented in different ways. Among the simple and reliable method using a quenching capacitor in power supply circuit (Fig. 1). The capacitance C1 is calculated as reactance to obtain the desired lamp voltage ЕL1. Resistor R1 is necessary for capacitor discharge after disconnecting the circuitry from the network. Its value is in the range of 100-500 ohms.

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