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My new energizer is working quite well, it is almost by accident I stumbled upon this more efficient setup 
. I had built a Bedini motor/charger, I was not happy with its performance so I started to dismantle it and reconfigure the components to see if I could get better results. One day I was working on it and the Transistor and Base resistor were getting so hot that the solder would come undone! Well one time that this happen I had to shut things down to re-wire things, after I had re-wired everything this time the setup was working so incredibly well, it wasn't getting hot and it was charging my batteries like crazy, while hooked to the energizer the voltage of the battery would climb up to 20, 21 volts, that's the highest I let it get, it seemed as though it would have kept going forever!
I hooked up my scope to the collector of the transistor, this is the wave form I saw:
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Looks cool, its got a large and fast spike well over 40 volts. But what made the difference? As I was going over the energizer again I found it, the wire from the negative of the run battery had disconnected from the negative side of the neon bulb! So to verify things I hooked the neon back up and sure enough once I did everything went to crazy, output voltage and spike went down getting even lower the hotter the Transistor and Base Resistor were getting, I took my side cutters and snipped the wire going from the neon to the negative of the run battery and instantly everything went back to good!
My coil is about 60mm diameter by about 75mm tall, air core, I used the solid core copper wires inside about 200 feet of CAT-5 cable, 2 sets of 2 wires twisted around each other is what I used to wrap my coil. Each pair of twisted wire is connected together essentially forming 2 wires, so I have one trigger coil and one run coil. I figured since it is solid core copper wire it would be pretty much the same as using magnet wire and ever since I made this larger coil with CAT-5 wires I have been getting much better results!
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The device itself leaves a bit to be desired at the moment, but I am still working on the design, trying to figure the best tweaks I can implement. Once I am happy with its performance I will officially release it as version 1 and have a custom board made for it. Until then, this is what I am working with:
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I am running the output of my energizer through a 555 Cap Dump Pulser circuit I made a few weeks back, when I am running through the Cap Pulser with it set to a higher frequency it allows for a pretty constant 25 - 26 volt output to the charge battery which is doing a good job of keeping the battery in full charge mode. If you check the voltage of the battery while it is charging you will read voltages up to around 19 - 20 volts (I never let it go above 20), however once the battery is disconnected from the energizer the voltage will slowly drop until it reaches its resting voltage. I am able to take an old backup psu battery, 12 volt, 3 amp from 12,08 volts all the way to 13.48 volts, resting voltage after about 2 hours on my energizer. Here is my 555 Cap Dump Pulser along with a voltage reading of the charging battery while hooked to my SSPKE:
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This is a voltage reading taken from the caps while charging said battery:
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I am running everything off of my 500 watt DIY ATX Benchtop Power Supply, I am using the +12 volt line as my power source for both the SSPKE and my 555 Cap Dump Pulser. I have been charging and discharging two identical 12 volt, 3 amp batteries which I salvaged from an old PC back up PSU.
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Here is the schematic for my SSPKE (Solid State PK Energizer):
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Here is the schematic for my 555 Cap Dump Pulser:
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I've been working on this for the past few weeks, I welcome any questions or comments, even if it is to criticize something as I don't claim to know it all by any means and am always ready to learn something new! I don't claim to have discovered over unity or anything like that, I haven't even done any tests on how much current is being used or anything, I've just been working on a way to get the best charging results I could because I wasn't happy with my results from prior Bedini builds. I'm sure Bedini stuff is great and I know he knows much more than me, I was probably making mistakes in my replication of his devices.
Hope someone enjoys and hopefully gets something out of this post. I've had a great time learning and working on this in my little DIY Electronics Lab! Let me know what you think guys and Gals!
Peace,
InoTech3D
. I had built a Bedini motor/charger, I was not happy with its performance so I started to dismantle it and reconfigure the components to see if I could get better results. One day I was working on it and the Transistor and Base resistor were getting so hot that the solder would come undone! Well one time that this happen I had to shut things down to re-wire things, after I had re-wired everything this time the setup was working so incredibly well, it wasn't getting hot and it was charging my batteries like crazy, while hooked to the energizer the voltage of the battery would climb up to 20, 21 volts, that's the highest I let it get, it seemed as though it would have kept going forever! I hooked up my scope to the collector of the transistor, this is the wave form I saw:
(Linked)Looks cool, its got a large and fast spike well over 40 volts. But what made the difference? As I was going over the energizer again I found it, the wire from the negative of the run battery had disconnected from the negative side of the neon bulb! So to verify things I hooked the neon back up and sure enough once I did everything went to crazy, output voltage and spike went down getting even lower the hotter the Transistor and Base Resistor were getting, I took my side cutters and snipped the wire going from the neon to the negative of the run battery and instantly everything went back to good!
My coil is about 60mm diameter by about 75mm tall, air core, I used the solid core copper wires inside about 200 feet of CAT-5 cable, 2 sets of 2 wires twisted around each other is what I used to wrap my coil. Each pair of twisted wire is connected together essentially forming 2 wires, so I have one trigger coil and one run coil. I figured since it is solid core copper wire it would be pretty much the same as using magnet wire and ever since I made this larger coil with CAT-5 wires I have been getting much better results!
(Linked)The device itself leaves a bit to be desired at the moment, but I am still working on the design, trying to figure the best tweaks I can implement. Once I am happy with its performance I will officially release it as version 1 and have a custom board made for it. Until then, this is what I am working with:
(Linked) I am running the output of my energizer through a 555 Cap Dump Pulser circuit I made a few weeks back, when I am running through the Cap Pulser with it set to a higher frequency it allows for a pretty constant 25 - 26 volt output to the charge battery which is doing a good job of keeping the battery in full charge mode. If you check the voltage of the battery while it is charging you will read voltages up to around 19 - 20 volts (I never let it go above 20), however once the battery is disconnected from the energizer the voltage will slowly drop until it reaches its resting voltage. I am able to take an old backup psu battery, 12 volt, 3 amp from 12,08 volts all the way to 13.48 volts, resting voltage after about 2 hours on my energizer. Here is my 555 Cap Dump Pulser along with a voltage reading of the charging battery while hooked to my SSPKE:
(Linked) This is a voltage reading taken from the caps while charging said battery:
(Linked)I am running everything off of my 500 watt DIY ATX Benchtop Power Supply, I am using the +12 volt line as my power source for both the SSPKE and my 555 Cap Dump Pulser. I have been charging and discharging two identical 12 volt, 3 amp batteries which I salvaged from an old PC back up PSU.
(Linked)Here is the schematic for my SSPKE (Solid State PK Energizer):
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Here is the schematic for my 555 Cap Dump Pulser:
(Linked)
I've been working on this for the past few weeks, I welcome any questions or comments, even if it is to criticize something as I don't claim to know it all by any means and am always ready to learn something new! I don't claim to have discovered over unity or anything like that, I haven't even done any tests on how much current is being used or anything, I've just been working on a way to get the best charging results I could because I wasn't happy with my results from prior Bedini builds. I'm sure Bedini stuff is great and I know he knows much more than me, I was probably making mistakes in my replication of his devices.
Hope someone enjoys and hopefully gets something out of this post. I've had a great time learning and working on this in my little DIY Electronics Lab! Let me know what you think guys and Gals!
Peace,
InoTech3D
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