Presents
Samples of home made anodizers

(July 2003) Fixer-of-Things, a chain mail artisan (www.we3dements.com) posted a description of his anodizers on a BBS, including one made by my instructions. I copied it with his permission, and he sent me more detailed pictures. See his anodizing set-up and more about the anodizers he uses here.

(May 2003) Oberon the SteelWeaver is selling this model from his web site at www.steelweaver.com

I assume that there are internal power resistors instead of the lightbulbs I used in my Make an Anodizer" page and below

Here is one ambitious anodizer mostly made from scrounged parts and nicely mounted in a case.

Power comes in through a salvaged computer power regulator (bottom rt) that isolates (safety), smooths, and regulates the AC voltage. The juice then passes through the variable transformer mounted to the top, and then is turned to DC by the bridge rectifier, held by a heat sink seen on the bottom between the silver capacitors and the power regulator.

The bottom left has a fancy array of capacitors and a large ferrite-core choke (a cast-off, slightly burned (formerly variable) transformer) to provide r-e-a-l-l-y smooth DC. Overkill, imho.

The rest of what you see are switches, relays, meters, and resistors to provide control and safety.

And casters for portability

He told me that he spent a total of $130.00 on parts for this heavy-duty, ultra-smooth performance unit. The input regulator and (overkill) choke were straight salvage.