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    Yep a bit excited. Hopefully it'll come to fruition.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer View Post
    Yep a bit excited. Hopefully it'll come to fruition.

    Phil
    Great news Phil. Are we talking of a place near the mighty Murray perhaps?

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    Echuca, Swan hill?

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    In Melbourne but don't want to put a mozz on it until I know more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by simonl View Post
    Hi RC. As I mentioned I'm at the end of a 4 week trip that included Cameron corner, strzelecki track, birdsville track, across the simpson, down the oodnadatta, onto the northern flinders and then home to Melbourne.

    With 2 adults and 2 kids and the 200L of fuel, 120L of water and food etc. etc. for long distances with no services it meant we were right on the limit of the vehicles GVM. Certainly no room for a generator and in any case I really can't see a need for a generator TBH. We have a 150w solar panel that slides out from under the roof rack and it runs the fridge and all of our other powered devices indefinately. The longest we stayed in 1 place without even starting the car was 5 days and the battery was fully charged each day by 10am. So a generator would not normally be needed.

    I do see people camping with caravans and camping trailers that have generators running night and day. I can't for the life of me work out what they must be running. 240v should not be needed while camping in this day and age.

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    I guess I am thinking in the wrong direction. When I hear camping these days I get the feeling everyone seems to drive around with an air conditioned caravan with all the modern appliances as the number of caravans on the road at the moment is huge.
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    You are quite correct RC. As tent campers my family are now sadly a minority but we still enjoy it, still have good backs and don't mind sleeping in a tent for 4 weeks straight.

    Don't even start me about the fact that people drag along their massive mansions on wheels, living in a bubble isolated from the environment they seek to visit. The number of diesel heaters I hear start up in the morning when camping with caravans makes me realise we live in a soft world. People these days have a very small tolerance level to anything that deviates from 22 degrees C. For me camping is about feeling the environment that you live in. If you wake up and it's 3 degrees then rug up, get a fire going and enjoy being alive!

    Anyway, a bit OT. Sorry.

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    I should point out that I'm not against caravans as such. In fact when I'm old and crusty my wife and I will doing the same thing but not at our current ages (I turn 50 this year)

    We also enjoy multi day hiking where the only things you have is what you carry. Even basic camping feels luxurious after hiking! Emergency welding with car batteries

    Simon

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    My Zen moment. Camping in the simpson desert with no one else around for ages.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post
    Hi SimonL,
    12 volt Mig sounds good but you may need more than one battery. It was the sort of thing you would find in the back ads in the Popular Mechanics magazine, a few years ago.

    Check this site out to see what they say about it.



    AMPERAGE RANGE: The Ready Welder welds very thin metals using a 12 and a 6 volt battery, (18 volts) or very thick metals with 36 volts DC, (three 12 volt batteries) yielding from 45amps, up to 350 amps of power.

    ReadyWelder Australia ? There's Nothing Like It!

    Theres some blurb about no one every been injured but look at the pic the battery is way too close to the work.
    It is the hydrogen that i would be concerned about.

    This system was featured on the net about 15 years back . It seems to have fallen in popularity as I haven't seen it recently.

    Grahame
    I've got a Readywelder, it really needs 24V but it works fine.

    I've used it a fair bit as a spool gun hooked up to a DC power source as well. In fact I'm thinking seriously of setting up to do some aluminium work and it'd be my first choice for a spool gun.

    At least partly because I have it, but they do work.

    As for bush welding, using flux cored wire you can weld/burn through all sorts of crap, and that said I'm a real fan of E4111 cellulose fluxed electrodes as my first choice of a weld anything (ferrous) anywhere, through anything (rust, paint, zinc etc etc).

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    I have been looking on the net for the little back pack welder I saw years back.
    I know i am a bit late with it , but you might want to have a look at this one?

    https://www.zena.net/htdocs/ordering/order.shtml#Top

    Grahame

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post
    I have been looking on the net for the little back pack welder I saw years back.
    I know i am a bit late with it , but you might want to have a look at this one?

    https://www.zena.net/htdocs/ordering/order.shtml#Top

    Grahame
    Looks like a very useful small portable welder, but the $US3750 RRP ($A5500) + freight would make it expensive insurance as an emergency stand by unit unless you had other uses for it as well.

    Frank.

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    Quote Originally Posted by franco View Post
    Looks like a very useful small portable welder, but the $US3750 RRP ($A5500) + freight would make it expensive insurance as an emergency stand by unit unless you had other uses for it as well.

    Frank.
    Frank,
    I must have looked at a different page to you.
    This page has the base price much lower at $1015 US:

    https://www.zena.net/cgi-bin/cart.cg...Gas_Truck_Kits

    Thats the US price then theres the $ conversion ,the 10% import tax and the shipping. It is a compromise and gets back to how badly do you want a compact welder for off road repair.

    An Aus made Dunlite generator/welder is way cheaper and can do the same job, but off course has more bulk.

    Grahame

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    Hi Grahame,

    Ah, different animal. That one is a vehicle engine driven generator outfit.

    You originally mentioned the Backpak welder, which I thought was the machine you were referring to:
    https://www.zena.net/htdocs/welders/BPW_Specs.shtml

    For some reason your original link didn't work for me, so I googled it.

    Frank

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    Just get the welder with lithium batteries. https://shopweldingsupplies.com/prod...elding-machine
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    Quote Originally Posted by franco View Post
    Looks like a very useful small portable welder, but the $US3750 RRP ($A5500) + freight would make it expensive insurance as an emergency stand by unit unless you had other uses for it as well.

    Frank.
    Anyone know what Zena is on about when they are talking High Frequency DC? D.C. is by definition 0 frequency, the only possibility that I can think of is some kind of pulsed DC, but I would have expected them to say that, and not HF DC.

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