Hi Luc,
I will just add a tidbit that I noted with a pulse charger I was experimenting with. It was a very simple configuration, PWM pulses three power wires of about 50m in length (x3) of THICK wire (bout 2.5mm thick) with the inductive discharge vented through an output diode and sent to the charge battery. It was basically a Bedini circuit, driven by PWM. Coil was formed in a big donut shape.
I was using two 40 amp hour batteries, one of them held its charge well and the other was on the way out. So I used the good one to drive it and charged the second one. I cant be certain if the bad battery effected the configuration, but my results were similar on the front end to yours.
When I upped to frequency to the +7kHz range I noticed that my run battery wasnt seeming to discharge. For over 6 hours I pushed over 2 amps from the run battery and at the end of it I had gone from 12.82 down to 12.80. It would only show this behaviour at higher frequencies. The charge battery would jump up to 13 or 14v almost instantly, but unfortunately just couldnt hold the charge well. Could have been a different story with a good battery.
Regards
I will just add a tidbit that I noted with a pulse charger I was experimenting with. It was a very simple configuration, PWM pulses three power wires of about 50m in length (x3) of THICK wire (bout 2.5mm thick) with the inductive discharge vented through an output diode and sent to the charge battery. It was basically a Bedini circuit, driven by PWM. Coil was formed in a big donut shape.
I was using two 40 amp hour batteries, one of them held its charge well and the other was on the way out. So I used the good one to drive it and charged the second one. I cant be certain if the bad battery effected the configuration, but my results were similar on the front end to yours.
When I upped to frequency to the +7kHz range I noticed that my run battery wasnt seeming to discharge. For over 6 hours I pushed over 2 amps from the run battery and at the end of it I had gone from 12.82 down to 12.80. It would only show this behaviour at higher frequencies. The charge battery would jump up to 13 or 14v almost instantly, but unfortunately just couldnt hold the charge well. Could have been a different story with a good battery.
Regards
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