Ive just spent the last several days binge watching the entire 18650 project playlist. Its been great watching the progress and going through the journey with you. Seeing things through the perspective of a beginner to where you are now has taught me so much. Your enthusiasm is contagious and i really dig your dedication! Keep doing what you are doing and i look forward to many more videos.
Hbpowerwall, test all your pans with a magnet. If the magnet sticks to the back of the pan, it can be used. The stronger the pull on the magnet, the faster that pan will cook on!
Thanks Average Joe, twenty minutes for snags and onion rings, tell them their dreaming. Your presentation saved us $50 in Australia in 2024. Cheers big ears
LOL - to be fair I'm also running offgrid with 220v not 240-250 v that makes a good difference in heat as it turns out. That said that cracker of a stove top is still used nightly and still going strong!
I've read articles on the web regarding this particular cooker and it appears there's quite a bit of variation in the quality of this brand. My experience with cooking sausages and onions at 1600w is that the entire meal was cooked in 7 minutes. That was with the ambiano coated stainless 26 cm frypan that Aldi sold as an extra. Don't know if the cast iron made a difference in cooking times.
Thank you for your informative video. I just purchased the same product from Aldi today to take caravanning. Looking forward to using it instead of the old electric fry pan.
As a note - we have used it every other day since this video was releases - STILL going strong took some time to get used to but now it's the best thing I got to run from my batteries.
The iron will heat up the fastest and most balanced. The stainless will be a little behind. Copper pan might work decent, but not as good as the SS. Aluminum will probably not work at all, or only get warm under full low. Induction works with magnetism, and specifically the Iron in the metal pots. The more noise from the pot, the less iron content as the iron is more spread out and causing the pan to actually bounce back and forth.
Wondering if you noticed the lowest power setting for continuous power, i.e. not cycling off/on. It varies a fair bit from brand to brand. Around 900 W seems to be popular.
Not sure if you later discovered, the cast iron pan you can't control the heat, it saturates the inductor - hence no noise - and becomes a red hot disaster for cooking - hence the charred sausages :P
Nice video. I bought a couple of these last week and love them. One thing I don't have is a guide to say what temperature each setting is. Do you think you could use your thermal camera on each setting to make a temp chart by any chance? I got that 1800w = 150 degrees C.
My thermal camera wiggs out at 150 - but if I have a change today i'll rip out a no edit video and upload maybe leave a an empty pot on there for 3min each or something - pan would have to get hotter over time.. humm i'll give it a crack
Forgot, I saw a video done by ElectricBoom On Induction cooking! Lots of Great info about these cookers. I had always thought these are for those new pans you can find everywhere(Red Copper). We use those pan for everything here!
Why does using the stove top pull power from the grid? Are the 8kw of inverters you have not enough to run it? Or is the stove just wired to the grid power?
When I had the wiring done a few years back only had a 2400w inverter, grown a bit since then. BUT also if you have two cooktops & the oven on it could draw 6000watts easily (then someone just has to turn on the microwave or an air con... lol
Seriously though. Is it hard on inverters? Does it work on mod sine wave? I don't know why I ask. I have pure sine! I'm off grid and thinking of getting one. If it doesn't eat batteries. I have heard they are about like a microwave. As far as power consumption. What's the price of this magic device? I'm looking for a gas alternative for cooking. And a microwave alternative. I don't want to use my cookstove . and basically looking for the most effiecent way to cook my Bean's Franks! I almost bought the two for one new wave cookers yesterday. I thought I should look in to it more. All I have is a 5kw inverter. And 12kw generator! So would 1200-1500 watts cook my food??? So I can run the fridge. Watck tv. and NOT do it in the dark?
Kinda the reason i did a few things like used it with the deep fryer and base house load (computers, fridge, freezer, two tv's laptop light etc all running at the same time) It does work and works well - just a tad slow at cooking but I think from the other comments i'll give it another shot cooking over a few weeks rather than just a few nights. I have two 48v PIP Inverters - www.diypowerwalls.com/pip
The best to cook with electricity are the pressure cookers of the brand orbegozo 1000W, when the pan has pressure cuts the electricity to the minimum consumes very little and costs in Europe 69 euros. Very good. greetings www.google.com/search?q=ORBEGOZO&client=firefox-b&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CVQe_1Iuc6_1dkIjgaeZwBvAlatQIq-c3xVMF8yQTmj6xGCSVYMhwqSZtTZ6zZ09ie34CFjM6uCBuSYCPlx1-wjeNE8SoSCRp5nAG8CVq1ESmmMwuz-_1ZpKhIJAir5zfFUwXwR-lEsU7e-kVMqEgnJBOaPrEYJJRHKYdLP8kfBdCoSCVgyHCpJm1NnESbPyoFipnDwKhIJrNnT2J7fgIURNUOJNibucYwqEgmMzq4IG5JgIxEGXGsI10_1WAyoSCeXHX7CN40TxERV_1LXjvNjcj&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiU_865xYbcAhXDOhQKHUJKCQQQ9C96BAgBEBs&biw=1344&bih=676&dpr=1.25
Hey man if you like the style you rock then stay with it, I didn't mean to be rude or anything. Btw I love your videos and think you are a genius. lmao
Been watching your vidz from almost the beginning, Do you think these cells are reliable enough to use as your only source of power?.......Considering and of grid set up....IF I can get access to cells, nanny state here.
Its interesting to see what Average Joe did differently after watching your progress, do you see any evidence of better use of cells by putting the positive/negative terminals at the opposite ends of the packs rather than the same end like yours?.....I'd of thought that the lower resistance of your bus bars would transfer the power evenly before going to the cells....
Based on this 4 hour live feed on the first time i did a test on my powerwall - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vSR9HzX7nHo.htmlh4m51s if you have a look at the thermal image there is MUCH more heat at the top than the bottom - this wasn't apparent when i changed from all at the top busbars to alternating top and bottom
Ahh, thats some really important info there, your doing your community a great service :) thanks..Would there be any issue with running for example, the negative down the side of the pack back up to the positive side?......Obviously would be much more practical for a set up like
If you have an induction cooktop and you want to use non induction pots and pans: Take a magnet with you and buy some cheap steel cooktop covers. They work great!
I got a induction cooktop some years back got the kettle and pot and pans for it was good but if you think your bitcoin mining was killing your batteries this cooker kill them faster, you know this... I still use lpg gas for cooking its just way to cheap on gas if I run out of gas I do still use my induction cooker but only if sun out and get most of the power off the panels
Yeh doesn't help i like trying to pull as much as I can from the either lol Thinking about reconfiguring my power shed and retiring the PCM60X charger and change that solar to the second pip - PIP uses solar first thus cycling cells less *this works in my head at 7am before coffee* Coin mining sucks the batteries dry
I have to work out how to use it and where I need to stand and how far - but i like it so far - just wish my Old Nikon had a mic imput save lining up the audio - seems at the end of a 10min clip it all out of sync by as much as a few seconds. Weird
I was waiting for you to break out with a Recipe!! The New "Cooking with Chef Peter Matthew" Show!!..LOL...We don't have a cooking top like yours. We have one of those older Electric stoves, I'd be interested to know if this would be more efficient?
Can I ask what you pay roughly for a 6 cell battery pack on average? Also how many useable cells, say over 1800mah are you getting from them?.....I'm asking because people want 4 or 5$ a laptop pack here and looking to estimate how much it will cost to build at least a 10kwh pack for a living on a truck project.
I paid about $2 per pack with 6 cells, that said the going rate on eBay in Australia is closer to your figures 4-5$ per battery pack. I got very lucky with these cells all being great cells with high capacity but through all my projects with 10's of thousands of cells processed it'd say it's close to 50% usable with great capacity over say 2400mah. Then 20% would be 18-2399 mah still very much useable cells at that ah rate. under that all get recycled for my projects
And I guess thats from recycling centers that give you access to as many as you can be bothered to process? Im trying to find a way to justify starting a project but without being able to get them from recycling centers Im looking at getting them in small amounts from lots of different sources for to much money and THEN many many hours of work over a year on top.....
No it was from one small school i found that had some after 3 hours of cold calling around to find some. Recycling centers are really pushing up the prices you have to get to them before the cells get to the recycle centers
I do my bacon in the oven if I'm having guests over for brunch, but I would be lying if I didn't admit that I totally do it on my George Foreman if I'm just doing a few pieces for myself (it's actually the only thing I use the George Foreman Grill for! 😂)
The reason it took so long to cook was because you used a pan that was too thick. Induction needs a thinner pan. All the heat is staying in the pan and not being passed to the food. I have one that I cook on fairly regular, and I use a Stainless Steel (believe it or not) dog feeding dish :P it's the right size, thin steel, quickly heats up a 1/2 liter of water to boiling to cook pasta or heat up soup. I've even seared meat in the pan without issues. I wish I had a thin iron pan, though, as it would be even faster.
hello my name is Mike im a noob and like all noobs i have questions, but jest one for now. I was wondering if it was possible to zone the room of my house and use smaller inverter instead of one whole house inverter? like this vid!!!
You could for sure, you just have to be willing to rewire the home. probably best to check with a local professional if it's legal or safe in your area tho
The reason why it takes so long is because cast iron takes a lot of heat to warm up the plate, you need to warm it up slowly & not fast. By doing it fast you are just burning the outside of the food & not cooking it through.
Just brought this hob. It is a pain in the arse. It only works with certain pots and pans. Keep getting an "E1" error message - I have tried lots of different pots. Dont waste your money on this. Overly complicated. Over engineered safety features make this unusable. You can only use pots/pans between 20cm and 26cm. Cant use copper, cant use ceramic, can not even use standard stainless steel it seems! shame. I was hoping this would work but I guess I will have to go back to my old trusted ceramic hob - harder to clean but reliable.
You want all that for under 100 bucks - seems a touch unreasonable? Works with (and still does every day) Stainless, & cast iron pans - makes for an amazing steak cooked on it & the pancakes are awesome with thanks to the over engineered controlled -
turns out its defiantly the wrong type of pan to use.. hehe we got a thin based one and works like a charm less power and faster!! That said i love steaks in the cast iron. Also we have used it for every other meal since this video and it's still going so really happy with the purchase..
