Hi Guys
I'm extremely new to all of this but have a dream of building my own induction brass annealer.
I've come across a few very old posts of people asking for help on the same type of project and have tried PM'ing them for advice. So far no one came back to me.
I was wondering if there is still anyone on this forum who has done a project of this kind and if they might be willing to share ideas with me??
Regards
Bruwer
Hi,
You need to tell us much more about this... Point to some examples..
RELOADERS: Oh THAT Brass!
bruwerconradie:
Hi GuysI'm extremely new to all of this but have a dream of building my own induction brass annealer.
I've come across a few very old posts of people asking for help on the same type of project and have tried PM'ing them for advice. So far no one came back to me.
I was wondering if there is still anyone on this forum who has done a project of this kind and if they might be willing to share ideas with me??
Regards
Bruwer
My shop manager and I were discussing brass annealing just the other day. He is also a reloader. I guess an Arduino would be useful for timing the operation. Your biggest chore would be to build an oscillator with enough power to heat the brass to the temperature you want. The Arduino part is trivial.
Paul
Hi Guys
Sorry for the long delay in response.
If you have the time please look at these examples:
I sincerely hope you could give me some guidance.
Regards
Bruwer
The second post had a very interesting display to the right of it. 43V, and just over 12A it indicated, or over 500W. That is not a trivial amount of power to switch, and very likely during testing you're going to see a lot more smoke than what comes off your cartridges (as seen in the same movie).
Have you done any homework by now? An understanding of how this kind of devices work, schematics - mostly for the oscillator, list of possible parts, required sensors, flow chart, etc. The Arduino part in this will be the easy bit indeed, even if you want to start controlling temperatures.