How to Make a DIY Spot Welder for Lithium Ion Battery Packs
As with many of my projects, I have to create a separate project to build a tool for it. In this case, I needed to make a Lithium Ion battery pack. Rather than solder, I decided to make a spot welder to put the battery pack together . Lithium Ion batteries are heat sensitive. They can be soldered together if one is careful in not applying to much heat for an extended period of time. However, a much safer method is to use a spot welder to weld the batteries together. To me, this was a great reason to embark on yet another project! Besides, you never know when you will need a spot welder. This spot welder basically uses a car or lawnmower battery to to provide the current necessary to do the spot welds. The amount of current that will be applied to the weld is fairly high. I expect in excess of 200 amps. To accommodate this we'll be using a starter solenoid to pass the current. We'll control the amount of time current is applied with a control board and a trigger. I'll al...