Things learned the hard way.

It would depend on the welder's controller. If it controls current, it would keep on increasing the voltage to maintain it. At the end, the battery would melt.

 

Nah, just use the batteries you just charged -

 

Gonzo & Phil, thanks for the info . .

 

While watching the above video on YouTube, the side video links gave me some examples of grid powered welding, mainly using salt water as the machine . . .

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- - - 220 V - AC - - - ​

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Have you ever noticed the wind
Always blows the opposite direction you meed to paddle?

 

Guess that's the apparent wind, you're paddling just too fast . .

 

My relative took me for mu first sail when I was about 30 years old. We launched and got about 200 feet when the wind completely died. We watched the ripples flatten. Then we decided to motor out of the harbor. I pulled on the motor about 150 times until my hand started bleeding. (Shudda pulled in gear). It never sounded like it was getting any gas, but Ih ad good bulb pressure. We get a tow to the landing and head home. On the way, I ask, 'have you done any work on the motor lately'? He says, yeah I fixed the carb bowl. We arrive at home and I take the carb bowl off. I ask, so, did you replace the bolt? He says, yeah, the other one had a hole in it.

 

I explain to him the reason for the hole and drill a hole in it and the motor starts first pull. He says, I bet you think I'm a real gashole.

 

When I was a kid my granddad learned to be more specific in the instructions he gave one day when, on a camping trip, he asked me to "take down the table" in the RV trailer.

A few moments later I cluelessly leaned out of the door, tabletop in hand, and asked where he wanted it.

He had to drive to town to find and buy a special screw driver to reattach it.

In my defense: the table set up looked a lot like one on a my dad's Chris Craft that did come off the wall.

 

Years before that, while I was maybe in 1st or 2nd grade, that same man had given me advice about what to do if you had to take a dump in the woods (use leaves to wipe).

This advice works ... but be sure to specify to your own kids/grandkids if you give them the same advice to not to try to use the small, spikey leaves of some bush!

I was kind of a goofy kid.

 

Small, spikey leaves are not the only type of leaf to avoid.

 

Ducklings are super soft, and non toxic, I believe . . .



Oh, and don't forget about the bunnies . . . .

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They are certainly a lot easier to reach.

 

Never use a duck. She may be somebody's mother.

 

The same goes for bunnies, both species could even be one's reincarnated great-grandmother, or so . .

I hereby officially withdraw my above suggestion, I shouldn't have advocated the products of my dirty mind . . .