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Recently updated my Giraud annealer to use induction. Have been very happy with the results. The "GinaErick" looks cool, and very economical compared to buying off the shelf!Building a new annealer, this one is a bit of a change from the "skip" annealer I built last time.
Instead of a torch it's a induction annealer. "GinaErick" you can Google it to see how it works. Parts are on the way and fabricaton starts soon.
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the idea is that you pass current though the coil creating a electromagnet, the rapidly changing ac current creates eddy currents in the metal and wham hot metal. perfect heating that is even and very fast and repeatable.
May I have some description please ?OK so with work and hunting and Xmas and yeah I had not started work on this till sunday. I'm going to build it twice, once out of wood and then I'll make it pretty out of plastic.
Got quite a bit done but did have one fart. So the machine requires a contactor aka solenoid to send big amps to the induction heater. The part is a packed 230 30 amp contactor and you solder a varister across the contacts. Well it turns out they make a 230a and a 230b. One is 24v and one is 120v guess what one I got. The catch fire and smoke when you run 120v Ac to it kind. It did work though