G’day! It’s somehow May!
Added 2025-05-01 12:16:04 +0000 UTCHello!! The video for this month will be the ‘Making a Yellow Pigment’ video, which is a Tantalum doped Yttrium molybdate. The chemistry is coming along… but the final step is a hearing step at 1400 degrees C for several hours… I’ve got a steel melting 5000W induction furnace online and uhhh powering it is an issue- it’s a 16A plug and pulls all those Watts in a way I’m not sure any circuits I have can handle it… hmm.
I’ll sort it out but it’s another reminder that my biggest enemy in projects is electricity….
The pictures are: the 16A plug next to the plug it doesn’t fit into (16A plugs are different than 10A plugs oops), the red beaker is Molybdenum dissolving in nitric acid, and the final big 2L flask is the next cubane step!! So I’ve been making progress with that too
Anyway thanks for the support as always! Perhaps 2 videos this month if both the cubane chemistry and the Pigment video work out easily (although that’s unlikely lol)
-Tom
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BTW, happy to chat real time if you'd like. I can at least point you in the right direction. I don't want you burning down your shed or getting hurt.
Tim Waters
2025-05-08 17:59:31 +0000 UTCTom, just FYI, you may need to add a 20A breaker to your panel (assuming you have an outside panel box for power to your shed). If the shed is powered from the main house, depending on how it's wired, you may need to tap into your main panel box. This is no different if you decided to do your laundry in your shed and wanted to install an electric clothes dryer. In other words, you'll trip your breaker constantly. A generator would also suffice, but you'll want to get one that can easily handle the load. Read all the labels!!! (BTW, I am an electrical engineer and used to wire up commercial buildings in my youth, also don't know the electrical code for ANZ, so you may want to ask around locally). Best!!! Tim
Tim Waters
2025-05-08 14:31:24 +0000 UTCIts not the most cost effective way but could prove a useful investment, one of those portable battery power banks. Some of them are made to run welders and things, so you can charge up on normal current and discharge at much larger currents.
Sum_Rye _
2025-05-02 23:21:52 +0000 UTC
