Quote from: Cupcake on Today at 11:37:07 AMDid I ever tell you that I am an electrical engineer? 

Excellent news, you're far more qualified than I am to sort this out.


Mark

Today has been very windy here in southern Oklahoma, so I decided to try my hand at making a couple of tabs today.  I definitely need to work on my stitching. Both of these have a cordovan face and the backing layer is 6oz veg tan leather if I remember correctly.

 

Quote from: SweatyTeddy on November 01, 2025, 07:57:44 PMHey I'm interested! I'm down in Chester County

Sorry for the slow response.  PM me your availability and we will make it happen!  I scouted SGL 145 today.  Not a squirrel in sight but they stocked it with pheasant yesterday.  I flushed at least nine roosters and took shots at two. Sadly no birds were harmed. If I had a hunting buddy or two to join in the fun it would have been a different story!   

I have been a fan of wool socks for over twenty years. I wear them year round. Now Ms Asbell has their socks at a discount for us Tragangers. I received two pairs last week and have been wearing them exclusively. They are very well made and very comfortable.

Use code trad gang 25 to get the discount!

https://asbellwool.com/shop/ols/search?keywords=Socks&sortOption=descend_by_match

I can't wait to see it....!!!

But it'll be a week or so till I can actually shoot it... cast comes off next week.

Tripped over my dog in the driveway and broke my thumb in two places...

Great stuff!!!

Great stuff Norm!!!

Your High Sierra has made a lot of meat. I need to pull mine off the rack and give it some love - the ASL rabbit hole I've went down has had me ignoring my recurves.  Nice buck!

In order to get a higher voltage to work for the heat strip a higher resistivity material needs to be used.  The most prevalent materials in SS all have about 9 x 10^-8 ohms per m²/m.  If we wanted to use 12 volts to run the heat strips the material would have to be about 6x higher in resistivity.

I calculate about 0.2 ohms resistance for the SS from Kirk's data.  If you run 12 volts through this strip it would dissipate 7200 watts and require 600 amps.

To get 120 watts at 12 volts requires 1.2 ohms.  One could place 0.5 ohms resistors at each end that bolt to the strip and their temperature would be put into the strip, albeit at the ends, so it is not likely to heat evenly down the strip.

Nichrome has more than 10x the resistivity of the SS so that is why it works so well.

Now that I have spent a bit more time on this problem and did a bit of math and see that we need a higher resistance material I conclude that with SS strips you need very high current and low voltage.  To use a higher voltage and lower current requires a higher resistance. V = I x R

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