Why Electroplaters Are So Expensive?

A professional teardown reveals the internal workings of an electroplater. An electronics spa brings it back to a fully functional state. Let's do some electroplating!

[@jimsvideos7201]

No fuse? It's nicely built otherwise, but not $360 nicely.

[@jimsvideos7201]

Never mind, there it is 😅

[@noimagination99]

Interesting! I'm pretty sure the inductor functions to smooth the choppy waveform that the rectified SCR Dimmer output creates. You could easily demonstrate this by bypassing the inductor with a piece of wire. Also, I think the edge of the binder clip shorted the thermocouple wires. I've seen it before, and it is exactly what causes a known good thermocouple to have no response to temperature change.

[@enginord]

thanks for the note on the binder clip. I did not think about that, but I'm sure that caused it to short. I got a second heavy duty thermocouple for monitoring now. stay tuned for some heat treating videos.