The answer is that this is one component of a much larger system that I'm slowly rolling out in pieces. And soldering irons are available very cheap at every radio shack now. This solves a very particular niche: for hobby electronics it's not needed, nor for 'professional' electronics like building custom audio stuff. Multiply by a few people hanging around a camp sight for a week, with some people drifting through to help during certain times of day it's not hard to see making millions of units.Īn excellent question.

But if each line like that only needs intermittent attention as they all move pretty slowly, you might be able to manage as many as 10 lines like this, making a daily output of 1000 units even in a very mellow afternoon with many breaks possible. This could probably make 100 in a leisurely afternoon in 10-20 unit batches. A single simple manipulator that rolls out solder can then make all the joints, with some supervision by a human probe handler. I could line them up along an edge and move the flame along on a track, which is not hard to automate. Suppose I want to make 10 of these at a time. However I think that it can scale continuously. Perhaps it is not immediately obvious that this is scalable and can be automated using only trash robots. This is a higher resistance coil than shown in my other trash coil instructable, because it's for a new project which will be for higher supply voltages(24 VDC). I had to go inside because it got dark so this is my standard coffee table setup with a brick.

For free wires out away from the components, I use a naked flame.

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