Circuit inspired by a post Aaron made on another thread
Unfortunatly, and unlike the Great Nikola Tesla, I do not have OCD It's a curse, I know.... runs in the family...
So I built a circuit that has OCD instead
Obviously based on Bedini's Solid State Oscillator so relevant patants apply.
The rest of the circuit is a 4 PDT relay controlled by a 4060 timer circuit and transistor. By tuning the pot on the circuit you can vary the 50/50 flip flop to anywhere between 5 minutes to God-Knows-When... hours, days, etc lol
During one stage it is operating as a normal Solid state circuit, then after teh set time has ellapsed the relay will switch and turn off the solid state circuit and connect the charging battery to a load. Then after the set time has ellapased again it will disconnect the load and turn on the solid state circuit.
Designed to run from a power supply. Because of the extra current draw for the timer and relay circuit it has larger losses to compensate for so it won't be as efficient as a standard circuit. This is just for conditioning batteries.
Choose a load resistor that will discharge the battery just less than it charges, otherwise your charging battery will run dead after every cycle which can't be a good thing.
I have included extra terminals to allow me to take current meansurements from the charging circuit (bypassing the current used for the timer circuit) and to swap the load resistor easily.
The blue part of the circuit is an LED that will flash at 1024 times of the frequency the relay switches. So for example if the LED flashes at 1hz then it will take 1024 seconds for the circuit to go through one cycle (charge/discharge). This saves you sitting around for an hour to see how long it takes for the relay to switch
Could also work as a battery swapper I guess. It appears simpler to build then a battery swapper that monitors the voltage though I haven't built that circuit so I don't know.
Have fun
SCHEMATIC
I have mine hooked up to a USB multimeter so I can record how the COP improves over time...
EDIT : ... and for God's sake people don't forget the Neon Bulb on the transistor... nearly every email I get from people who can't get their circuit to work haven't used a neon and have fried their transistor... USE A NEON!!!! Sorry... had to get that out of my system...
Resting time between cycles does absolutely effect COP. You wait too long to charge and drain again and efficiency goes down. You need to do the charging/drain cycles like you have OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and you'll see that the efficiency goes up...do it non-stop and you'll see high gains...skip even 1-2 days and you'll see efficiency go down.
So I built a circuit that has OCD instead
Obviously based on Bedini's Solid State Oscillator so relevant patants apply.
The rest of the circuit is a 4 PDT relay controlled by a 4060 timer circuit and transistor. By tuning the pot on the circuit you can vary the 50/50 flip flop to anywhere between 5 minutes to God-Knows-When... hours, days, etc lol
During one stage it is operating as a normal Solid state circuit, then after teh set time has ellapsed the relay will switch and turn off the solid state circuit and connect the charging battery to a load. Then after the set time has ellapased again it will disconnect the load and turn on the solid state circuit.
Designed to run from a power supply. Because of the extra current draw for the timer and relay circuit it has larger losses to compensate for so it won't be as efficient as a standard circuit. This is just for conditioning batteries.
Choose a load resistor that will discharge the battery just less than it charges, otherwise your charging battery will run dead after every cycle which can't be a good thing.
I have included extra terminals to allow me to take current meansurements from the charging circuit (bypassing the current used for the timer circuit) and to swap the load resistor easily.
The blue part of the circuit is an LED that will flash at 1024 times of the frequency the relay switches. So for example if the LED flashes at 1hz then it will take 1024 seconds for the circuit to go through one cycle (charge/discharge). This saves you sitting around for an hour to see how long it takes for the relay to switch
Could also work as a battery swapper I guess. It appears simpler to build then a battery swapper that monitors the voltage though I haven't built that circuit so I don't know.
Have fun
SCHEMATIC
I have mine hooked up to a USB multimeter so I can record how the COP improves over time...
EDIT : ... and for God's sake people don't forget the Neon Bulb on the transistor... nearly every email I get from people who can't get their circuit to work haven't used a neon and have fried their transistor... USE A NEON!!!! Sorry... had to get that out of my system...
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