Radiant Night (no not the Christmas carol)

[illchemist]

It appears that the radiant loads up the battery with voltage until it reaches a breaking point. At that point, desulfurization occurs and the impedance drops. The battery gains potential E again, then some more chemistry occurs, etc. The voltage drops because the volume of potential energy which can be stored in the battery goes up every time some desulfurization of the contacts occur.

The best analogy I can think of is a balloon being filled up until the point of breaking. But rather than destroy itself, it just becomes larger and slightly deflated. The volume of the container goes up but the amount of gas in the system stays the same. Pressure goes down until it is refilled. V = nRT It's like an airpump.

I really have to build one of these machines...

[Sephiroth]

Just thought I would mention there is a lunar eclipse on 21st February

Be interesting to see the charging results but does anyone have an idea how to do a controlled test of to comapare the charging efficiency with say the next solar eclipse ... perhaps charging a capacitor?

[ren]

Sep, the passage that first indicated this effect to me actually reffered to the capacitor. It was noted that the cap pulser had a higher output pulse at night.