Captret - Perpetual Light with Dead Batteries

[dragon]

Dr. Stiffler, I noticed your schematic on your site was reversed, shouldn't the positive of the battery go to the positive side of the cap? Your showing it on the neg side of the cap... I'm not sure it would make a difference - just an observation...
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[Jbignes5]

Status update...

Going strong with 2 leds in parallel running at 8.11 volts dc and 16.9 ac volts.. Going up... Run time about 1 hour.

[rave154]

dragon.........

thats what it looks like to me.....a relaxation circuit........a strange one for sure though

keep it up though jbig....let us know what you find

[Joit]

Dr Stiffler
I did take a poled Capacitor earlier apart, you are right when you say,
that the Can is Isolated from the inner Alloy.
Its kinda interesting, if the Size of the Capacitance of the Hull
has a certain Relation to the Capacitance to the Cap itself.

I tried another 68µF Cap, but seems the 47µF still matches best for me.
Maybe should try a 470µF for comparement also later.

--Edit--
I did test the Block Batterie with a LED and a 440ohm Resistor in serie,
(What is usual needed, when you connect a LEd to 12Volt)
and it doesnt looks like, it did loose any Capacity or Voltage.
Also are there different LED out, even all white and 3,6V
but a diffferent Type of Lumen.

[sniky]

Going strong with 2 leds in parallel running at 8.11 volts dc and 16.9 ac volts.. Going up... Run time about 1 hour.

take any battery and on the AC reading you will see double the voltage in one way, 0 the other way
I made some tests before this thread

[electricity]

Rising of the Dead

looked around and found a real dead 12v car battery, walmart 80 ah

Starting = 7.2v

Got lights of america 35 watts gutted LED

16kv 1.2 uf caps in series

runnig now, other set up is climbing nicely.

gotta go, will let it run 24hrs qnd will post results tomorrow

@All
Stop worshipping Stiffler, I'm getting a Doctorate in Divinity from PNG University, soon I'll be Dr. electricity

[Jbignes5]

Confirmed...

You are correct about the ac polarization when measuring batteries but what I find funny is that if there is no ac signal then what is this doing? How is it that the battery is charging then?

Stats: 8.12v dc on the battery now. I'm gonna try leds in series now and see if I get any better results....

Update leds in series does not work.

3 leds in parallel works and still gaining slowly. 4 leds in parallel and still charging.. Weird

Hey guys I got a 35uf 250vac capacitor.. Do you think this would work as well? It pretty big....
Rofl Docs site is loaded! Can't get access...

[ibpointless2]

Hello everyone, great work so far. I didn't expect this captret thing to really take off this quick.

I like to thank everyone for their great work with the Captret idea. I must admit i'm having fun and sure others are too.


So let me throw another curve ball into the mix.

I've got just a plain old captret circuit but this time with two capacitors, but this time i left some leads of the capacitors disconnected and for some odd reason it works. This is more pure captret than capacitor and i think if you keep adding more capacitors when the LED starts to get dim and it will pull it back to full brightness. I guess you could call this a captret in series since one - lead and one + lead is used in one of the capacitors. Let me know what you think.

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[DrStiffler]

looked around and found a real dead 12v car battery, walmart 80 ah

Starting = 7.2v

Got lights of america 35 watts gutted LED

16kv 1.2 uf caps in series

runnig now, other set up is climbing nicely.

gotta go, will let it run 24hrs qnd will post results tomorrow

@All
Stop worshipping Stiffler, I'm getting a Doctorate in Divinity from PNG University, soon I'll be Dr. electricity

That may qualify you to be 'Dr. Babble' doubt it would qualify for your stated goal.

[DrStiffler]

Done for now

Well I think it is fully explained by the 'Phantom Diode' and all circuit I see out here will conform to that configuration.

I see no OU at all, it does indeed consume energy, just make the correct measurements and it will be clear.

I am open although if someone will show otherwise.

[Jbignes5]

Have you...

Hello everyone, great work so far. I didn't expect this captret thing to really take off this quick.

I like to thank everyone for their great work with the Captret idea. I must admit i'm having fun and sure others are too.


So let me throw another curve ball into the mix.

I've got just a plain old captret circuit but this time with two capacitors, but this time i left some leads of the capacitors disconnected and for some odd reason it works. This is more pure captret than capacitor and i think if you keep adding more capacitors when the LED starts to get dim and it will pull it back to full brightness. I guess you could call this a captret in series since one - lead and one + lead is used in one of the capacitors. Let me know what you think.

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have you tried this setup yet?

[ibpointless2]

DrStiffler, what if the LED amp draw gets so low that the LED will pick up more ambient light from the room and have that feed back to the battery to keep the battery voltage the same or going up? What we forget is that the LED can be used a solar panel, and if it light from the room starts to be greater than the power being consumed one could assume that it might, just might be self running?

Or one could just hook a small solar panel, like i did in a previous post, up to recollect the "wasted" light energy of the LED and feed that small but useful power back to the battery.

I know it sounds crazy, so what do you think?

And what do you mean "phantom diode"?

[ibpointless2]

have you tried this setup yet?

Yup got it running right now.

[Joit]

What we forget is that the LED can be used a solar panel, and if it light from the room starts to be greater than the power being consumed

I will doubt that, because i did let my Circuit running at a more dark Enviroment,
not really a Chance, that it can pick up lights.
And still got different Results with different Capacitors.
Would they only work as Storage for the Power from the Diode,
it would not does make a different, what size you do use.

[Jbignes5]

Can't be collecting light...

DrStiffler, what if the LED amp draw gets so low that the LED will pick up more ambient light from the room and have that feed back to the battery to keep the battery voltage the same or going up? What we forget is that the LED can be used a solar panel, and if it light from the room starts to be greater than the power being consumed one could assume that it might, just might be self running?

Or one could just hook a small solar panel, like i did in a previous post, up to recollect the "wasted" light energy of the LED and feed that small but useful power back to the battery.

I know it sounds crazy, so what do you think?

And what do you mean "phantom diode"?

My work room is actually shaded pretty good so i doubt it has anything to do with solar action... Also I am sad to admit it but my ac capacitor doesn't work..

Doctor could you explain the current leads voltage that you say on your website. I could have sworn it was the other way around (Voltage leads current).