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https://www.xcelarc.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/XA-MIG200WRZ-K_-Info-Sheet.pdf

It's an inverter, I don't think I've seen a multiprocess transformer welder. MIG needs constant voltage and TIG constant current and that's easier with electronic trickery.

Not sure if it's in my head, but I seem to get cleaner welds and less spatter from inverter mig.

They even weld nice and clean on pure co2, I'm currently using argoshield but it doesn't seem any better whereas transformer migs seem to weld cleaner with argon in the mix. 

You don't have the huge inrush current needed to saturate the transformer core with electromagnetics either so they're easier to run off generator or inverter. 

LFP batteries are supposedly going to halve in price this year. It shouldn't be long til EVs become cheaper than petrol cars.

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/26/catl-byd-to-slash-battery-prices-by-50-in-2024-boom-evs-win/

I'm beginning to doubt my own existence, I mean, I don't even have a FB account.

Electric house truck/bus would be good. Cover the roof in PV panels,  drive until the battery runs out, park up until it's full again.

1 hour ago, Doug Hill said:

hopefully it will also leak oil like a British car

The electric ones are bipolar, they leak lithium.

My parents gave me this for my 21st

It came with a card that says W.W.I MAJOR JENNINGS D.S.O.

Google wasn't around when I got the watch, but now it is, so o know he was a surgeon.

http://www.maltaramc.com/ramcoff/j/jenningsjw.html

I gave the weight of the leaf battery because it's the only one in my head, but it's only really good for a commuter unless you want to stop every hundred kilometers and avoid remote roads. Not my idea of a freedom machine.

So you put in a 60kWh battery and suddenly your cute little mx5 weighs as much as a ranger.

I think a big cruiser like a jag or Cadillac is the best candidate for conversion personally.

A 24kWh leaf battery is about 300kg so any nice nimble sports car is instantly ruined.

Haven't come across this site before:

https://www.cmsnl.com/

Amazing amount of parts for japanese bikes. Full of diagrams from the manuals and even photos of the parts.

I think so, if it's the original.

There won't be that many around that don't need work.

I just drove my mk1 V4 everywhere at 50mph. Probably a good thing when one of the retread rear tyres untreaded itself on the motorway.

Why would one lust for their jets to glimmer?

Always been happy with my XA welders. You can borrow for a hoon if you like. Probably over ten years old now, but similar to this one maybe. 

https://tradezone.co.nz/welding/razorweld-mig200-mig-mma-inverter-welder-package-200a-230v-single-phase-c-w-3mtr-mig-torch-arc-set-4m-regulator

Wouldn't mind a kawasaki again but Auckland is so farrrrrrr away.

9 hours ago, igor said:

...exist?

Not even some of it?

If we upgraded the ferry terminals and got some new reliable ferries and maintained the railway lines, some of that heavy cartage could go by rail instead.

If you're doing a road trip, RUCs and 80c/kWh fast charge will make it pretty spendy.

Better start snapping those k11s up before everyone catches on.

Of course the 2T is more funnerer.

Yeah flip paint. Spotted in Palmie.

It's the ICE EV.

The back is a giant bluetooth speaker. 

Hmm... 6kW motor and 7.2kWh battery.

I think I'd scrap the engine block, power steering, aircon etc it would probably double the range.