Found 3 original Milwaukee 18V NiCd batteries in a recycle bin while visiting a buddy in CT. All were dead, under one volt. Housings are lightly used and really nice condition. Tried to charge them on the Milwaukee charger and one did not do anything but blink. Tried to Zap them back with 36V pulsing for a few seconds and then charged with my balance charger. One looked promising and showed 18V but after a couple days it was about 6V. Out of the 3 packs (45 cells) I may have 16 cells at 1.2V. Not really worth it to rebuild a pack with the old used cells.
Ordered 30 sub c Tenergy 2200mAh nicd cells and rebuilt 2 of the packs today.
Charged up on the balance charger and both holding at 20.3V.
I prefer to use the nicdās in my 1/2in drive impact because they got more sack.
May build the last pack with some NiMh 3800mAh for the drill, screw gun, sawzall, etc.
In the past I have rebuilt one of the original 18V nicd packs with 4300mAh Nimh but it was a really tight fit, did get it done though.
Do have the M18 XC lithium packs but not a fan. Not impressed with the sack in the impact, overall runtime and just shutting off on low voltage.
Certainly wonāt pay the $130 for a 9.0.
NiCd rebuilds cost me $32ea for the 15 cells in the pack. About the same cost of a cheapo 2000mAh that prolly has short lived 1500mAh cells.
Just finished putting together a dedomed Sst-40 with a TA bistro driver in a Convoy C8. Man, this thing is a little beast! 158kcd and really, really bright! And this is before fine tuning the focusā¦
There are 3 fixed voltages from PC power supply.
Adjustable is up to 32V 5A buck-boost (DPH3205) powered from the same PSU.
Binding posts and one 5.5Ć2.1mm connector on the rear are for powering DPH3205 from any DC 6-40V external power supply when I donāt have access to 250V AC.
Other 5.5Ć2.1mm connector is 12V out from PSU.
I made a duplicate of the Titanium plate they put in my neck. I have a PDF document from the maker of the plate that lists a couple of dimensions, this let me size it based on the X-Ray of the actual plate itself. Never milled anything before, especially not on a lathe! Some of this was hand work, I thought itād be somewhat easier on commercially pure grade 2, it wasnātā¦
The very small slots I didnāt put in because my 2mm 4 flute bit wasnāt up to it. And I still should probably refine the ā+ā pattern windows, but thatās file work and Iām done today!
I did it for a pocketable conversation starter. It weighs a mere 4 grams and isnāt as cut-out as the actual plate, so in reality the plate weighs even less than that. Itās 2.1mm thick, 1.5mm in the center, 18.4mm wide and 38mm long. This is an Xtend plate from Global Medical, made to be able to add an extension into the middle groove and the small slots are locators for this extension. (My Dr. is probably figuring more work will need to be done above the existing plate, hence, the add on style Xtend plate)
Their pictureā¦. yeah yeah yeah, CNC machines rule!
I didnāt use a nichia UV led before but the output of this led to me looks good and illuminates things well
I think that the ā80mwā was a typo in the description, Maybe ?
Of course I looked for a nichia led but couldnāt find one unfortunately
I have 4 UV lights, each with a different emitter. 3 of them are Nichia. 1 is LED Engine LZ1. The top of the line Nichia was the most difficult to acquire. Itās not as obvious the differences between these 4 as I would have thought, especially considering the price of the top of the line emitter, but it sure cureās optical adhesive in a hurry!
Convoy S2 18350 NVSU233A (this one has a weird Silicone add on dome from Nichia, works, but looks funky as itās really big)
Copper X6 with NVSU333A
Jaxman U1 with NCSU276A
Solarforce L2M (18350) with LEDEngine LZ1 (this one has an AHorton aspheric)
Modded a Thrunite TN-31 with a SST-40, already had the light with bypassed resistor mod and on turbo it gives the XHP-35 Hi led on the AceBeam K70 a run for its money. Itās blindingly bright!!!
It weighs a mere 4 grams and isnāt as cut-out as the actual plate, so in reality the plate weighs even less than that. Itās 2.1mm thick, 1.5mm in the center, 18.4mm wide and 38mm long. This is an Xtend plate from Global Medical, made to be able to add an extension into the middle groove and the small slots are locators for this extension. (My Dr. is probably figuring more work will need to be done above the existing plate, hence, the add on style Xtend plate)
