If you ve ever wanted to forge cast or smelt metal this project is right up your alley.
Diy induction furnace.
It gets hot enough to melt and.
I would start out with a large bucket of ice water and reduce this to hot water in a short time.
My calculations show that i need 2kw of heat.
I need to heat a 4 hollow ss cylinder 20 with refractory material inside.
Diy powerful induction heater.
Have plenty of ice to keep this.
I m looking into induction heating as a solution for a problem i have with my phd project.
It s a 30 kva induction heater built by bwang over on instructables.
Your diy induction heater looks super interesting.
Diy induction foundry initial approach most of the diy induction heating projects i have seen tackle the entire power supply from scratch including voltage and current regulation.
Induction heaters are definitely one of the most efficient way of heating metal objects specially ferrous metals.
I m assuming i need a bigger setup than the one you have here.
Induction heater 12 kw.
Video of the induction heater melting stuff will be out next.
You will still have extremely high temperatures on the workpiece heating the coil.
The best part about this induction heater is that you dont need to have a physical contact with the object to be heated there are a lot.