Rickharris
Senior Member
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Blimey, he must have some serious kit in his hobby box.I make my own cheap mosfets too
Obviously Google has tried to do the New Zealand translation for foot on this one.I tried with FET, instead of MOSFET. Thanks for trying to be helpful, Google...
you'd think by now the Diy Semiconductors would be possible and done by quite a few hobbyists,heck you can get the silicon through Alibaba, as you know miniturising the whole process would probably be a little difficult but not impossible and i imagine an instructable might pop up soon...Second link down...
Blimey, he must have some serious kit in his hobby box.
Wonder if he grows his own silcon crystals or just buys them in.
Hate to think what his electric bill is like. The last time we ran up 16 lines, it took out the local sub-station. (oh.. no.. that wasn't us.. honest..).
Despite being in the industry for over 25 years, the closest I ever got to making a semiconductor at home was making a single PN junction from a germanium crystal in a lump of coal and a 'cat's wisker' point contact.
Bet you've done that too Rick?
think of how quick you could do marshmellow.....And if you want to confine your search to say the Rev Ed PICAXE forum then just say so in your google search:
<B>picaxe connections site:www.picaxeforum.co.uk</B>
this also comes in hand when searching for those 3 letter words on the forum
Silicon metal is easy to "make".
I have designed and built the electrical portion of 6 off 18MW submerged arc electric furnaces over the past 20 years and about to work on the design for a new 24MW furnace.
take some quartz rock, woodchips, charcoal, pet coke, and lots of heat via typically three 1200mm diameter carbon electrodes each handling 80,000 Amperes at around 240 volts and voila . . . . . silicon metal in a couple of hours
In the case of electric furnaces, yes they are generally “near” power stations – well within about 50km.think of how quick you could do marshmellow.....
where do they get the power for this. Surely they must build these things near a power station, 24MW isn't exactly a small amount of power, and it's not like you'd have that availble to every part of the grid either, reminds me of somthing on hackday "diy fusion power"