Spot Welder for Lithium-ion 18650 Battery Tutorial

Easy to build DIY spot welder for under 60$.
Works great und safes a lot of time.

High temperature destroys lithium batteries, so soldering is no option.

I want to build a 700Wh battery pack for my electric homemade boat and E-bike using 60 panasonic ncr18650b lithium batteries.

Thats all you need:

1 x resistor 1k

1 x resistor 10k

1 x foot switch

1 x Hifi Cap min. 1F

8 x MOSFET IRF1404

1m copper cable 2.5mm²

2m copper cable 35mm²

Copper rails

Total costs: about 60$

Sand the copper rails for better
contact.

The eyelets are very easy to bend (watch the video)

Attach the Hifi Cap to the wooden base plate.

Make the copper clamps for the 35mm² cable and the cap.

Use wodden distance plates to attach the copper rails with the FETs and eyelets.

Solder eyelets to the SOUCE pins of the FETs.

Connect all GATE pins.

Dont´t foreget 10k resistor between GATE and SOURCE

and 1k resistor after the foot switch.

Connect one 35mm² welding cables to the plus pole oft he cap

and the second to the DRAIN copper rail.

I also installed a connector for the battery and the foot switch.

Use for the welding tips the 2.5mm² copper cable.

Stick the 2.5mm² copper cable into the 35mm² cable as shown in the video.

Now you are ready to do your first welding tests.

To load the Cap use a power supply or a 12V battery with a 60W lamp in series.

Benefit of the power supply: you can vary the amount of energy in the cap.

Have fun!